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Sharp Debiasing for Smooth Functional Estimation in Banach Spaces

Statistics Theory 2026-04-03 v1 Methodology Statistics Theory

Abstract

This paper studies the estimation of smooth functionals f(θ)f(\theta) of a mean parameter θ=EP[W]\theta = \mathbb{E}_P[W] for a distribution PP on a general Banach space. We propose a cross-fitted estimator based on a single sample splitting and establish non-asymptotic moment bounds and Berry--Ess\'een bounds for both mm-smooth and infinitely smooth functionals under the finite moment assumptions. Our framework is applied to precision matrix estimation and the inference of projection parameters in high-dimensional regression. In these Euclidean settings, the proposed estimators achieve asymptotic normality under the dimension regime dlog2(en)=o(n)d \log^2(en) = o(n) without requiring any structural assumptions (e.g., sparsity). We discuss computational relaxations that enables polynomial-time implementation for a range of matrix functionals.

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@article{arxiv.2604.01470,
  title  = {Sharp Debiasing for Smooth Functional Estimation in Banach Spaces},
  author = {Woonyoung Chang and Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01470},
  year   = {2026}
}
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