High-dimensional statistical inference deals with models in which the the number of parameters p is comparable to or larger than the sample size n. Since it is usually impossible to obtain consistent procedures unless p/n → 0, a line of recent work has studied models with various types of low-dimensional structure, including sparse vectors, sparse and structured matrices, low-rank matrices, and combinations thereof. In such settings, a general approach to estimation is to solve a regularized optimization problem, which combines a loss function measuring how well the model fits the data with some regularization function that encourages the assumed structure. This paper provides a unified framework for establishing consistency and convergence rates for such regularized M -estimators under high-dimensional scaling. We state one main theorem and show how it can be used to re-derive some existing results, and also to obtain a number of new results on consistency and convergence rates, in both ℓ 2 -error and related norms. Our analysis also identifies two key properties of loss and regularization functions, referred to as restricted strong convexity and decomposability, that ensure corresponding regularized M -estimators have fast convergence rates, and which are optimal in many well-studied cases.
In REF , a unified framework was provided for establishing consistency and convergence rates for the regularized M -estimators, and the results for ℓ 1 /ℓ q regularization was established.
A Unified Framework for High-Dimensional Analysis of M-Estimators with Decomposable Regularizers
Statistical Science 2012, Vol. 27, No. 4, 538-557
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