Model assisted variable clustering: Minimax-optimal recovery and algorithms
模型辅助变量聚类:极小极大最优恢复与算法
The problem of variable clustering is that of estimating groups of similar components of a $p$-dimensional vector $X=(X_{1},\ldots ,X_{p})$ from $n$ independent copies of $X$. There exists a large number of algorithms that return data-dependent groups of variables, but their interpretation is limited to the algorithm that produced them. An alternative is model-based clustering, in which one begins by defining population level clusters relative to a model that embeds notions…