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12月14日 | 赵俊龙:Estimation of Linear Functionals in High Dimensional Linear Models: From Sparsity to Non-sparsity

时   间:2023年12月14日 13:00-14:00

地   点:  腾讯会议ID:910-209-408

报告人:赵俊龙北京师范大学教授

主持人:项冬冬  华东师范大学教授

摘   要:

High dimensional linear models are commonly used in practice. In many applications, one is interested in linear transformations $\bbeta^\top x$ of regression coefficients $\bbeta\in \mR^p$, where $x$ is a specific point and is not required to be identically distributed as the training data. One common approach is the plug-in technique which first estimates $\bbeta$, then plugs the estimator in the linear transformation for prediction. Despite its popularity, estimation of $\bbeta$ can be difficult for high dimensional problems. Commonly used assumptions in the literature include that the signal of coefficients $\bbeta$ is sparse and predictors are weakly correlated. These  assumptions, however, may not be easily verified, and can be violated in practice. When $\bbeta$ is non-sparse or predictors are strongly correlated, estimation of $\bbeta$ can be  very difficult. In this paper, we propose a novel pointwise estimator for linear transformations of $\bbeta$. This new estimator greatly relaxes the common assumptions for high dimensional problems, and is adaptive to the degree of  sparsity of $\bbeta$ and strength of correlations among the predictors. In particular, $\bbeta$ can be sparse or  non-sparse and  predictors can be strongly or weakly correlated. The proposed method is simple for implementation.  Numerical and theoretical results demonstrate the competitive advantages of  the proposed method for a wide range of problems.

报告人简介:


赵俊龙北京师范大学统计学院教授。研究方向主要为高维数据分析、统计机器学习、稳健统计等。发表相关论文SCI论文近五十篇,部分结果发表在统计学顶级期刊Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series BJRSSB)、 The Annals of StatisticsAOS)、Journal of American Statistical Association(JASA)Biometrika上。主持多项国家自然科学基金项目。



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