Computational lower bounds for graphon estimation via low-degree polynomials
利用低阶多项式研究图函数估计的计算下界
Graphon estimation has been one of the most fundamental problems in network analysis and has received considerable attention in the past decade. From the statistical perspective, the minimax error rate of graphon estimation has been established by (Ann. Statist. 43 (2015) 2624–2652) for both stochastic block model (SBM) and nonparametric graphon estimation. The statistical optimal estimators are based on constrained least squares and have computational complexity exponential…