Estimation of (near) low-rank matrices with noise and high-dimensional scaling

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DOI10.1214/10-AOS850zbMATH Open1216.62090arXiv0912.5100OpenAlexW2586353914MaRDI QIDQ548547FDOQ548547


Authors: Martin J. Wainwright, Sahand Negahban Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 29 June 2011

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: High-dimensional inference refers to problems of statistical estimation in which the ambient dimension of the data may be comparable to or possibly even larger than the sample size. We study an instance of high-dimensional inference in which the goal is to estimate a matrix Thetainealkimesp on the basis of N noisy observations, and the unknown matrix Theta* is assumed to be either exactly low rank, or ``near low-rank, meaning that it can be well-approximated by a matrix with low rank. We consider an M-estimator based on regularization by the trace or nuclear norm over matrices, and analyze its performance under high-dimensional scaling. We provide non-asymptotic bounds on the Frobenius norm error that hold for a general class of noisy observation models, and then illustrate their consequences for a number of specific matrix models, including low-rank multivariate or multi-task regression, system identification in vector autoregressive processes, and recovery of low-rank matrices from random projections. Simulation results show excellent agreement with the high-dimensional scaling of the error predicted by our theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5100




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