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Activity Number: 510
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract - #302432
Title: Minimax-Optimal Rates for Sparse Additive Models Over Kernel Classes via Convex Programming
Author(s): Garvesh Raskutti*+
Companies: University of California at Berkeley
Address: , , ,
Keywords: high-dimensional ; sparse additive models ; minimax ; convex optimization
Abstract:

Sparse additive models are families of $d$-variate functions that have the additive decomposition \mbox{$f^* = \sum_{j \in S} f^*_j$,} where $S$ is a unknown subset of cardinality $s \ll d$. We consider the case where each component function $f^*_j$ lies in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, and analyze a simple kernel-based convex program for estimating the unknown function $f^*$. Working within a high-dimensional framework that allows both the dimension $d$ and sparsity $s$ to scale, we derive convergence rates in the $L^2(\mathbb{P})$ and $L^2(\mathbb{P}_n)$ norms. These rates consist of two terms: a \emph{subset selection term} of the order $\frac{s \log d}{n}$, corresponding to the difficulty of finding the unknown $s$-sized subset, and an \emph{estimation error} term of the order $s \, \nu_n^2$, where $\nu_n^2$ is the optimal rate for estimating an univariate function within the RKHS. We complement these achievable results by deriving minimax lower bounds on the $L^2(\mathbb{P})$ error, thereby showing that our method is optimal up to constant factors for sub-linear sparsity $s = o(d)$. Thus, we obtain optimal minimax rates for classes of sparse additive models.


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