Optimal aggregation of affine estimators

author: Joseph Salmon, Denis Diderot University - Paris 7
published: Aug. 2, 2011,   recorded: July 2011,   views: 2999
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We consider the problem of combining a (possibly uncountably infinite) set of affine estimators in non-parametric regression model with heteroscedastic Gaussian noise. Focusing on the exponentially weighted aggregate, we prove a PAC-Bayesian type inequality that leads to sharp oracle inequalities in discrete but also in continuous settings. The framework is general enough to cover the combinations of various procedures—such as the least square regression, the kernel ridge regression, the shrinkage estimators, etc.—used in the literature on statistical inverse problems. As a consequence, we show that the proposed aggregate provides an adaptive estimator in the exact minimax sense without neither discretizing the range of tuning parameters nor splitting the set of observations. We also illustrate numerically the good performance achieved by the exponentially weighted aggregate.

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