Variable selection with Hamming loss

We derive non-asymptotic bounds for the minimax risk of variable selection under expected Hamming loss in the Gaussian mean model in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) for classes of \(s\)-sparse vectors separated from 0 by a constant \(a > 0\). In some cases, we get exact expressions for the nonasymptotic minimax...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-03
Main Authors: Butucea, Cristina, Stepanova, Natalia A, Tsybakov, Alexandre B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asymptotic properties
Data recovery
Minimax technique
Selectors
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Summary:We derive non-asymptotic bounds for the minimax risk of variable selection under expected Hamming loss in the Gaussian mean model in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) for classes of \(s\)-sparse vectors separated from 0 by a constant \(a > 0\). In some cases, we get exact expressions for the nonasymptotic minimax risk as a function of \(d, s, a\) and find explicitly the minimax selectors. These results are extended to dependent or non-Gaussian observations and to the problem of crowdsourcing. Analogous conclusions are obtained for the probability of wrong recovery of the sparsity pattern. As corollaries, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for such asymptotic properties as almost full recovery and exact recovery. Moreover, we propose data-driven selectors that provide almost full and exact recovery adaptively to the parameters of the classes.
ISSN:2331-8422