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关于代理损失函数和$f$ -发散

On surrogate loss functions and $f$-divergences

XuanLong Nguyen, Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan

摘要:

二进制分类的目标是从协变量向量和相应的二进制标签的观察估计判别函数$γ$。我们考虑这个问题的详细说明,其中协变量不能直接使用,但变换的降维量化器$Q$。我们提出的条件损失函数,使经验风险最小化产生贝叶斯一致性时,判别函数和量化器的估计。这些条件是由损失函数和一类称为Ali-Silvey或$f$ -发散泛函的泛函之间的一般对应关系来表示的。而这种对应关系是由布莱克威尔[Proc.第二伯克利研讨会。可能吧中央集权主义者1(1951)93- 102。对于0- 1损失,我们将对应关系扩展到更广泛的代理损失函数类,这些函数在二元分类的贝叶斯一致性的一般理论中起着关键作用。我们的研究结果使得有可能挑选出(严格)子集的替代损失函数,产生贝叶斯一致性的判别函数和量化器的联合估计。

英文摘要:

The goal of binary classification is to estimate a discriminant function $γ$ from observations of covariate vectors and corresponding binary labels. We consider an elaboration of this problem in which the covariates are not available directly but are transformed by a dimensionality-reducing quantizer $Q$. We present conditions on loss functions such that empirical risk minimization yields Bayes consistency when both the discriminant function and the quantizer are estimated. These conditions are stated in terms of a general correspondence between loss functions and a class of functionals known as Ali-Silvey or $f$-divergence functionals. Whereas this correspondence was established by Blackwell [Proc. 2nd Berkeley Symp. Probab. Statist. 1 (1951) 93--102. Univ. California Press, Berkeley] for the 0--1 loss, we extend the correspondence to the broader class of surrogate loss functions that play a key role in the general theory of Bayes consistency for binary classification. Our result makes it possible to pick out the (strict) subset of surrogate loss functions that yield Bayes consistency for joint estimation of the discriminant function and the quantizer.

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