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We study the following fundamental hypothesis testing problem, which we term Gaussian mean testing. Given i.i.d. samples from a distribution $p$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, the task is to distinguish, with high probability, between the following…

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Let $ \mu $ be a self-affine measure associated with a diagonal affine iterated function system (IFS) $ \Phi = \{ (x_{1}, \ldots, x_{d}) \mapsto ( r_{i, 1}x_{1} + t_{i,1}, \ldots, r_{i,d}x_{d} + t_{i,d}) \}_{i\in\Lambda} $ on $…

We address the choice of the tuning parameter $\lambda$ in $\ell_1$-penalized M-estimation. Our main concern is models which are highly nonlinear, such as the Gaussian mixture model. The number of parameters $p$ is moreover large, possibly…

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We present a very general chaining method which allows one to control the supremum of the empirical process $\sup_{h \in H} |N^{-1}\sum_{i=1}^N h^2(X_i)-\E h^2|$ in rather general situations. We use this method to establish two main…