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Clifford Lam
Jianqing Fan

大型协方差矩阵估计的稀疏一致性与收敛速度

研究问题
高维协方差、精度矩阵及 Cholesky 分解中的稀疏结构如何统一估计,不同惩罚对零元素识别和收敛速度有何影响?
方法与思路
作者在一般惩罚似然框架下研究三类稀疏结构,推导 Frobenius 范数收敛性质,并比较不同惩罚所需的调节参数条件。
材料陈述的贡献
摘要称,获得稀疏一致性与收敛率结果;在所研究保证下,L1 惩罚需较强稀疏限制,SCAD 与硬阈值惩罚无需同一限制。
阅读关注点
应核对维数、非零元素数和调节参数的联合条件,各惩罚的适用假设,以及零元素识别保证与收敛率结论的区别。
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This paper studies the sparsistency and rates of convergence for estimating sparse covariance and precision matrices based on penalized likelihood with nonconvex penalty functions. Here, sparsistency refers to the property that all parameters that are zero are actually estimated as zero with probability tending to one. Depending on the case of applications, sparsity priori may occur on the covariance matrix, its inverse or its Cholesky decomposition. We study these three sparsity exploration problems under a unified framework with a general penalty function. We show that the rates of convergence for these problems under the Frobenius norm are of order (s(n) log p(n)/n)(1/2), where s(n) is the number of nonzero elements, p(n) is the size of the covariance matrix and n is the sample size. This explicitly spells out the contribution of high-dimensionality is merely of a logarithmic factor. The conditions on the rate with which the tuning parameter λ(n) goes to 0 have been made explicit and compared under different penalties. As a result, for the L(1)-penalty, to guarantee the sparsistency and optimal rate of convergence, the number of nonzero elements should be small: sn'=O(pn) at most, among O(pn2) parameters, for estimating sparse covariance or correlation matrix, sparse precision or inverse correlation matrix or sparse Cholesky factor, where sn' is the number of the nonzero elements on the off-diagonal entries. On the other hand, using the SCAD or hard-thresholding penalty functions, there is no such a restriction.

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