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高维鲁棒$M$ -估计:任意破坏和重尾

High Dimensional Robust $M$-Estimation: Arbitrary Corruption and Heavy Tails

The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校)

Liu Liu, Tianyang Li, Constantine Caramanis

摘要:

我们考虑稀疏约束的$M$估计的问题时,解释和响应变量都有沉重的尾巴(有界四阶矩),或任意腐败的一小部分。我们专注于$k$ -稀疏,高维制度的变量$d$和样本大小$n$的数量相关的通过$n \sim k \log d$。我们定义了一个自然的条件,我们称之为鲁棒下降条件(RDC),并表明,如果梯度估计满足RDC,那么鲁棒硬采样保持(IHT使用此梯度估计),保证获得良好的统计率。本文的贡献是表明,这RDC是一个足够灵活的概念,以恢复已知的结果,并获得新的鲁棒性结果。具体而言,新的结果包括:(a)对于$k$ -稀疏高维线性和逻辑回归与重尾(有界四阶矩)解释变量和响应变量,线性时间可计算的均值中值梯度估计满足RDC,因此鲁棒硬约束保持是极小极大最优的;(b)当我们在解释变量和响应变量中有$O(1/\sqrt{k}\log(nd))$ -任意损坏的分数而不是重尾时,一个近线性时间可计算的修剪梯度估计满足RDC,因此,鲁棒硬约束保持是最小最大最优的。我们证明了我们的方法在稀疏线性,逻辑回归和稀疏精度矩阵估计合成和真实世界的美国股票数据的有效性。

英文摘要:

We consider the problem of sparsity-constrained $M$-estimation when both explanatory and response variables have heavy tails (bounded 4-th moments), or a fraction of arbitrary corruptions. We focus on the $k$-sparse, high-dimensional regime where the number of variables $d$ and the sample size $n$ are related through $n \sim k \log d$. We define a natural condition we call the Robust Descent Condition (RDC), and show that if a gradient estimator satisfies the RDC, then Robust Hard Thresholding (IHT using this gradient estimator), is guaranteed to obtain good statistical rates. The contribution of this paper is in showing that this RDC is a flexible enough concept to recover known results, and obtain new robustness results. Specifically, new results include: (a) For $k$-sparse high-dimensional linear- and logistic-regression with heavy tail (bounded 4-th moment) explanatory and response variables, a linear-time-computable median-of-means gradient estimator satisfies the RDC, and hence Robust Hard Thresholding is minimax optimal; (b) When instead of heavy tails we have $O(1/\sqrt{k}\log(nd))$-fraction of arbitrary corruptions in explanatory and response variables, a near linear-time computable trimmed gradient estimator satisfies the RDC, and hence Robust Hard Thresholding is minimax optimal. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in sparse linear, logistic regression, and sparse precision matrix estimation on synthetic and real-world US equities data.

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