Uncertainty Quantification for Noisy Low-tubal-rank Tensor Completion

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Main Authors: Shang, Jiuqian, Li, Jingyang, Chen, Yang
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author Shang, Jiuqian
Li, Jingyang
Chen, Yang
author_facet Shang, Jiuqian
Li, Jingyang
Chen, Yang
contents High-dimensional tensor data often exhibit strong temporal correlations that appear as low-dimensional structures in the frequency domain. While the low-tubal-rank tensor model effectively captures these spectral features, making it potentially suitable for geophysical data, existing methods primarily focus on point estimation. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) of imputed values and rigorous statistical inference for these models remain largely unexplored. In this work, we propose a flexible inference framework for linear forms of high-dimensional tensors. Employing a double-sample debiasing technique followed by a low-rank projection, we construct asymptotically Gaussian estimators that yield valid statistical inference under mild assumptions. More precisely, we can perform hypothesis testing and construct confidence intervals with this result. We validate the theoretical results through extensive simulations and demonstrate the practical effectiveness of our method in completing the global total electron content data. We demonstrate, using those numerical results, that our entrywise confidence intervals are robust and reliable, yielding informative uncertainty quantification that captures underlying variability.
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spellingShingle Uncertainty Quantification for Noisy Low-tubal-rank Tensor Completion
Shang, Jiuqian
Li, Jingyang
Chen, Yang
Methodology
Statistics Theory
62F10, 62F12, 62F25, 62P35
High-dimensional tensor data often exhibit strong temporal correlations that appear as low-dimensional structures in the frequency domain. While the low-tubal-rank tensor model effectively captures these spectral features, making it potentially suitable for geophysical data, existing methods primarily focus on point estimation. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) of imputed values and rigorous statistical inference for these models remain largely unexplored. In this work, we propose a flexible inference framework for linear forms of high-dimensional tensors. Employing a double-sample debiasing technique followed by a low-rank projection, we construct asymptotically Gaussian estimators that yield valid statistical inference under mild assumptions. More precisely, we can perform hypothesis testing and construct confidence intervals with this result. We validate the theoretical results through extensive simulations and demonstrate the practical effectiveness of our method in completing the global total electron content data. We demonstrate, using those numerical results, that our entrywise confidence intervals are robust and reliable, yielding informative uncertainty quantification that captures underlying variability.
title Uncertainty Quantification for Noisy Low-tubal-rank Tensor Completion
topic Methodology
Statistics Theory
62F10, 62F12, 62F25, 62P35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10353