Off-the-grid learning of mixtures from a continuous dictionary

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Main Authors: Butucea, Cristina, Delmas, Jean-François, Dutfoy, Anne, Hardy, Clément
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Published: 2022
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author Butucea, Cristina
Delmas, Jean-François
Dutfoy, Anne
Hardy, Clément
author_facet Butucea, Cristina
Delmas, Jean-François
Dutfoy, Anne
Hardy, Clément
contents We consider a general non-linear model where the signal is a finite mixture of an unknown, possibly increasing, number of features issued from a continuous dictionary parameterized by a real non-linear parameter. The signal is observed with Gaussian (possibly correlated) noise in either a continuous or a discrete setup. We propose an off-the-grid optimization method, that is, a method which does not use any discretization scheme on the parameter space, to estimate both the non-linear parameters of the features and the linear parameters of the mixture. We use recent results on the geometry of off-the-grid methods to give minimal separation on the true underlying non-linear parameters such that interpolating certificate functions can be constructed. Using also tail bounds for suprema of Gaussian processes we bound the prediction error with high probability. Assuming that the certificate functions can be constructed, our prediction error bound is up to $\log$-factors similar to the rates attained by the Lasso predictor in the linear regression model. We also establish convergence rates that quantify with high probability the quality of estimation for both the linear and the non-linear parameters. We develop in full details our main results for two applications: the Gaussian spike deconvolution and the scaled exponential model.
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spellingShingle Off-the-grid learning of mixtures from a continuous dictionary
Butucea, Cristina
Delmas, Jean-François
Dutfoy, Anne
Hardy, Clément
Machine Learning
Probability
Statistics Theory
We consider a general non-linear model where the signal is a finite mixture of an unknown, possibly increasing, number of features issued from a continuous dictionary parameterized by a real non-linear parameter. The signal is observed with Gaussian (possibly correlated) noise in either a continuous or a discrete setup. We propose an off-the-grid optimization method, that is, a method which does not use any discretization scheme on the parameter space, to estimate both the non-linear parameters of the features and the linear parameters of the mixture. We use recent results on the geometry of off-the-grid methods to give minimal separation on the true underlying non-linear parameters such that interpolating certificate functions can be constructed. Using also tail bounds for suprema of Gaussian processes we bound the prediction error with high probability. Assuming that the certificate functions can be constructed, our prediction error bound is up to $\log$-factors similar to the rates attained by the Lasso predictor in the linear regression model. We also establish convergence rates that quantify with high probability the quality of estimation for both the linear and the non-linear parameters. We develop in full details our main results for two applications: the Gaussian spike deconvolution and the scaled exponential model.
title Off-the-grid learning of mixtures from a continuous dictionary
topic Machine Learning
Probability
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00171