Risk minimization by median-of-means tournaments

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Abstract: We consider the classical statistical learning/regression problem, when the value of a real random variable Y is to be predicted based on the observation of another random variable X. Given a class of functions F and a sample of independent copies of (X, Y ), one needs to choose a function f from F such that f(X) approximates Y as well as possible, in the mean-squared sense. We introduce a new procedure, the so-called median-of-means tournament, that achieves the optimal tradeoff between accuracy and confidence under minimal assumptions, and in particular outperforms classical methods based on empirical risk minimization.


This paper develops an approach for squared error minimization based on a median of means estimator and pairwise comparisons of candidate functions. Optimality in terms of accuracy and confidence is discussed in different scenarios, determined in terms of classes of estimation functions and hypotheses on the tails of the distributions. Comparisons with the approach based on empirical risk minimization are performed. Examples of application to linear regression are presented.




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