Online Tensor Inference

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Main Authors: Wen, Xin, Sun, Will Wei, Zhang, Yichen
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Published: 2023
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author Wen, Xin
Sun, Will Wei
Zhang, Yichen
author_facet Wen, Xin
Sun, Will Wei
Zhang, Yichen
contents Contemporary applications, such as recommendation systems and mobile health monitoring, require real-time processing and analysis of sequentially arriving high-dimensional tensor data. Traditional offline learning, involving the storage and utilization of all data in each computational iteration, becomes impractical for these tasks. Furthermore, existing low-rank tensor methods lack the capability for online statistical inference, which is essential for real-time predictions and informed decision-making. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing a novel online inference framework for low-rank tensors. Our approach employs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) to enable efficient real-time data processing without extensive memory requirements. We establish a non-asymptotic convergence result for the online low-rank SGD estimator, nearly matches the minimax optimal estimation error rate of offline models. Furthermore, we propose a simple yet powerful online debiasing approach for sequential statistical inference. The entire online procedure, covering both estimation and inference, eliminates the need for data splitting or storing historical data, making it suitable for on-the-fly hypothesis testing. In our analysis, we control the sum of constructed super-martingales to ensure estimates along the entire solution path remain within the benign region. Additionally, a novel spectral representation tool is employed to address statistical dependencies among iterative estimates, establishing the desired asymptotic normality.
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spellingShingle Online Tensor Inference
Wen, Xin
Sun, Will Wei
Zhang, Yichen
Machine Learning
Methodology
Contemporary applications, such as recommendation systems and mobile health monitoring, require real-time processing and analysis of sequentially arriving high-dimensional tensor data. Traditional offline learning, involving the storage and utilization of all data in each computational iteration, becomes impractical for these tasks. Furthermore, existing low-rank tensor methods lack the capability for online statistical inference, which is essential for real-time predictions and informed decision-making. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing a novel online inference framework for low-rank tensors. Our approach employs Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) to enable efficient real-time data processing without extensive memory requirements. We establish a non-asymptotic convergence result for the online low-rank SGD estimator, nearly matches the minimax optimal estimation error rate of offline models. Furthermore, we propose a simple yet powerful online debiasing approach for sequential statistical inference. The entire online procedure, covering both estimation and inference, eliminates the need for data splitting or storing historical data, making it suitable for on-the-fly hypothesis testing. In our analysis, we control the sum of constructed super-martingales to ensure estimates along the entire solution path remain within the benign region. Additionally, a novel spectral representation tool is employed to address statistical dependencies among iterative estimates, establishing the desired asymptotic normality.
title Online Tensor Inference
topic Machine Learning
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17111