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A lava attack on the recovery of sums of dense and sparse signals

Common high-dimensional methods for prediction rely on having either a sparse signal model, a model in which most parameters are zero and there are a small number of non-zero parameters that are large in magnitude, or a dense signal model, a model with no large parameters and very many small non-zero parameters. We consider a generalization of these two basic models, termed here a "sparse+dense" model, in which the signal is given by the sum of a sparse signal and a dense signal. Such a structure poses problems for traditional sparse estimators, such as the lasso, and for traditional dense estimation methods, such as ridge estimation. We propose a new penalization-based method, called lava, which is computationally efficient. With suitable choices of penalty parameters, the proposed method strictly dominates both lasso and ridge. We derive analytic expressions for the finite-sample risk function of the lava estimator in the Gaussian sequence model. We also provide a deviation bound for the prediction risk in the Gaussian regression model with fixed design. In both cases, we provide Stein's unbiased estimator for lava's prediction risk. A simulation example compares the performance of lava to lasso, ridge, and elastic net in a regression example using feasible, data-dependent penalty parameters and illustrates lava's improved performance relative to these benchmarks.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP05/15

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
high-dimensional models
penalization
shrinkage
non-sparse signal recovery

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Chernozhukov, Victor
Hansen, Christian
Liao, Yuan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2015.0515
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Chernozhukov, Victor
  • Hansen, Christian
  • Liao, Yuan
  • Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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