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Main Authors: Ben-Hamou, Anna, Guyader, Arnaud
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10498
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author Ben-Hamou, Anna
Guyader, Arnaud
author_facet Ben-Hamou, Anna
Guyader, Arnaud
contents This paper is devoted to the problem of determining the concentration bounds that are achievable in non-parametric regression. We consider the setting where features are supported on a bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$, the regression function is Lipschitz, and the noise is only assumed to have a finite second moment. We first specify the fundamental limits of the problem by establishing a general lower bound on deviation probabilities, and then construct explicit estimators that achieve this bound. These estimators are obtained by applying the median-of-means principle to classical local averaging rules in non-parametric regression, including nearest neighbors and kernel procedures.
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spellingShingle On deviation probabilities in non-parametric regression with heavy-tailed noise
Ben-Hamou, Anna
Guyader, Arnaud
Statistics Theory
62G08, 62G15, 62G35
This paper is devoted to the problem of determining the concentration bounds that are achievable in non-parametric regression. We consider the setting where features are supported on a bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$, the regression function is Lipschitz, and the noise is only assumed to have a finite second moment. We first specify the fundamental limits of the problem by establishing a general lower bound on deviation probabilities, and then construct explicit estimators that achieve this bound. These estimators are obtained by applying the median-of-means principle to classical local averaging rules in non-parametric regression, including nearest neighbors and kernel procedures.
title On deviation probabilities in non-parametric regression with heavy-tailed noise
topic Statistics Theory
62G08, 62G15, 62G35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10498