Minimax Optimality of Classical Scaling Under General Noise Conditions

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Hauptverfasser: Vishwanath, Siddharth, Arias-Castro, Ery
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author Vishwanath, Siddharth
Arias-Castro, Ery
author_facet Vishwanath, Siddharth
Arias-Castro, Ery
contents We establish the consistency of classical scaling under a broad class of noise models, encompassing many commonly studied cases in literature. Our approach requires only finite fourth moments of the noise, significantly weakening standard assumptions. We derive convergence rates for classical scaling and establish matching minimax lower bounds, demonstrating that classical scaling achieves minimax optimality in recovering the true configuration even when the input dissimilarities are corrupted by noise.
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spellingShingle Minimax Optimality of Classical Scaling Under General Noise Conditions
Vishwanath, Siddharth
Arias-Castro, Ery
Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
62R07, 94A16, 62G05, 62C20
We establish the consistency of classical scaling under a broad class of noise models, encompassing many commonly studied cases in literature. Our approach requires only finite fourth moments of the noise, significantly weakening standard assumptions. We derive convergence rates for classical scaling and establish matching minimax lower bounds, demonstrating that classical scaling achieves minimax optimality in recovering the true configuration even when the input dissimilarities are corrupted by noise.
title Minimax Optimality of Classical Scaling Under General Noise Conditions
topic Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
62R07, 94A16, 62G05, 62C20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00947