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arXiv 2008.12919stat.ME
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多维函数型数据的低秩协方差函数估计

Low-Rank Covariance Function Estimation for Multidimensional Functional Data

Jiayi Wang, Raymond K. W. Wong, Xiaoke Zhang

摘要:

多维函数数据在当今的许多领域都有出现。协方差函数在分析这种日益常见的数据中起着重要的作用。本文在再生核Hilbert空间(RKHS)框架下提出了一种新的非参数协方差函数估计方法,该方法可以同时处理稀疏和稠密函数数据.我们扩展(有限维)张量的多线性秩结构的功能,这使得灵活的建模的协方差算子和边缘结构。所提出的框架可以保证所得到的估计是自动半正定的,并且可以包含各种谱正则化。特别是迹范数正则化可以提高协方差算子和边缘结构的低秩。尽管缺乏一个封闭的形式,在温和的假设下,所提出的估计可以实现统一的理论结果,适用于任何相对大小之间的样本量和每个样本字段的观测数,收敛速度揭示了“相变”的现象,从稀疏到密集的功能数据。基于一个新的表示定理,提出了一种迹范数正则化的ADMM算法。通过仿真研究和Argo项目数据集的分析,证明了所提出的估计的吸引人的数值性能。

英文摘要:

Multidimensional function data arise from many fields nowadays. The covariance function plays an important role in the analysis of such increasingly common data. In this paper, we propose a novel nonparametric covariance function estimation approach under the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) that can handle both sparse and dense functional data. We extend multilinear rank structures for (finite-dimensional) tensors to functions, which allow for flexible modeling of both covariance operators and marginal structures. The proposed framework can guarantee that the resulting estimator is automatically semi-positive definite, and can incorporate various spectral regularizations. The trace-norm regularization in particular can promote low ranks for both covariance operator and marginal structures. Despite the lack of a closed form, under mild assumptions, the proposed estimator can achieve unified theoretical results that hold for any relative magnitudes between the sample size and the number of observations per sample field, and the rate of convergence reveals the "phase-transition" phenomenon from sparse to dense functional data. Based on a new representer theorem, an ADMM algorithm is developed for the trace-norm regularization. The appealing numerical performance of the proposed estimator is demonstrated by a simulation study and the analysis of a dataset from the Argo project.

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