GROS: A General Robust Aggregation Strategy

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Hauptverfasser: Cholaquidis, Alejandro, Joly, Emilien, Moreno, Leonardo
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author Cholaquidis, Alejandro
Joly, Emilien
Moreno, Leonardo
author_facet Cholaquidis, Alejandro
Joly, Emilien
Moreno, Leonardo
contents A new, very general, robust procedure for combining estimators in metric spaces is introduced GROS. The method is reminiscent of the well-known median of means, as described in \cite{devroye2016sub}. Initially, the sample is divided into $K$ groups. Subsequently, an estimator is computed for each group. Finally, these $K$ estimators are combined using a robust procedure. We prove that this estimator is sub-Gaussian and we get its break-down point, in the sense of Donoho. The robust procedure involves a minimization problem on a general metric space, but we show that the same (up to a constant) sub-Gaussianity is obtained if the minimization is taken over the sample, making GROS feasible in practice. The performance of GROS is evaluated through five simulation studies: the first one focuses on classification using $k$-means, the second one on the multi-armed bandit problem, the third one on the regression problem. The fourth one is the set estimation problem under a noisy model. Lastly, we apply GROS to get a robust persistent diagram.
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spellingShingle GROS: A General Robust Aggregation Strategy
Cholaquidis, Alejandro
Joly, Emilien
Moreno, Leonardo
Statistics Theory
Applications
Machine Learning
A new, very general, robust procedure for combining estimators in metric spaces is introduced GROS. The method is reminiscent of the well-known median of means, as described in \cite{devroye2016sub}. Initially, the sample is divided into $K$ groups. Subsequently, an estimator is computed for each group. Finally, these $K$ estimators are combined using a robust procedure. We prove that this estimator is sub-Gaussian and we get its break-down point, in the sense of Donoho. The robust procedure involves a minimization problem on a general metric space, but we show that the same (up to a constant) sub-Gaussianity is obtained if the minimization is taken over the sample, making GROS feasible in practice. The performance of GROS is evaluated through five simulation studies: the first one focuses on classification using $k$-means, the second one on the multi-armed bandit problem, the third one on the regression problem. The fourth one is the set estimation problem under a noisy model. Lastly, we apply GROS to get a robust persistent diagram.
title GROS: A General Robust Aggregation Strategy
topic Statistics Theory
Applications
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15442