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具有相关噪声的非稀疏高维线性回归的良性过拟合

Benign Overfitting of Non-Sparse High-Dimensional Linear Regression with Correlated Noise

Toshiki Tsuda, Masaaki Imaizumi

AI总结:

研究了存在内生性的非稀疏高维线性回归问题,提出无正则化估计量在协方差矩阵特征值条件下可实现良性过拟合,并利用凸高斯极小极大定理(CGMT)提供理论证明与扩展。

摘要:

我们研究了存在与高斯协变量相关的噪声时的高维线性回归问题。这种相关性在回归模型中被称为内生性,通常由未观测变量及其他因素引起,一直是因果推断和计量经济学中的主要挑战。当协变量为高维时,通常假设真实参数具有稀疏性并使用正则化进行估计,即使存在内生性也是如此。然而,当稀疏性不成立时,如何同时控制内生性和高维性尚未得到充分理解。本研究表明,在对协方差矩阵的某些假设下,无正则化的估计量可以实现一致性,即良性过拟合。具体而言,我们的结果表明,当相关噪声和工具变量的协方差矩阵满足关于其特征值的条件时,该估计量的误差收敛于零。我们考虑了放松这些条件的若干扩展,并进行了实验以支持我们的理论发现。作为技术贡献,我们在对偶问题中利用了凸高斯极小极大定理(CGMT),并对CGMT本身进行了扩展。

英文摘要:

We investigate the high-dimensional linear regression problem in the presence of noise correlated with Gaussian covariates. This correlation, known as endogeneity in regression models, often arises from unobserved variables and other factors. It has been a major challenge in causal inference and econometrics. When the covariates are high-dimensional, it has been common to assume sparsity on the true parameters and estimate them using regularization, even with the endogeneity. However, when sparsity does not hold, it has not been well understood to control the endogeneity and high dimensionality simultaneously. This study demonstrates that an estimator without regularization can achieve consistency, that is, benign overfitting, under certain assumptions on the covariance matrix. Specifically, our results show that the error of this estimator converges to zero when the covariance matrices of correlated noise and instrumental variables satisfy a condition on their eigenvalues. We consider several extensions relaxing these conditions and conduct experiments to support our theoretical findings. As a technical contribution, we utilize the convex Gaussian minimax theorem (CGMT) in our dual problem and extend CGMT itself.

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