Optimal adaptive estimation of linear functionals under sparsity
稀疏性约束下线性泛函的最优自适应估计
We consider the problem of estimation of a linear functional in the Gaussian sequence model where the unknown vector $\theta \in\mathbb{R}^{d}$ belongs to a class of $s$-sparse vectors with unknown $s$. We suggest an adaptive estimator achieving a nonasymptotic rate of convergence that differs from the minimax rate at most by a logarithmic factor. We also show that this optimal adaptive rate cannot be improved when $s$ is unknown. Furthermore, we address the issue of…