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# Tight conditions for consistency of variable selection in the context of high dimensionality

2 imagine [Marne-la-Vallée]
LIGM - Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge, CSTB - Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech
Abstract : We address the issue of variable selection in the regression model with very high ambient dimension, \textit{i.e.}, when the number of variables is very large. The main focus is on the situation where the number of relevant variables, called intrinsic dimension and denoted by $d^*$, is much smaller than the ambient dimension $d$. Without assuming any parametric form of the underlying regression function, we get tight conditions making it possible to consistently estimate the set of relevant variables. These conditions relate the intrinsic dimension to the ambient dimension and to the sample size. The procedure that is provably consistent under these tight conditions is based on comparing quadratic functionals of the empirical Fourier coefficients with appropriately chosen threshold values. The asymptotic analysis reveals the presence of two quite different re\-gimes. The first regime is when $d^*$ is fixed. In this case the situation in nonparametric regression is the same as in linear regression, \textit{i.e.}, consistent variable selection is possible if and only if $\log d$ is small compared to the sample size $n$. The picture is different in the second regime, $d^*\to\infty$ as $n\to\infty$, where we prove that consistent variable selection in nonparametric set-up is possible only if $d^*+\log\log d$ is small compared to $\log n$. We apply these results to derive minimax separation rates for the problem of variable selection.
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Laëtitia Comminges, Arnak S. Dalalyan. Tight conditions for consistency of variable selection in the context of high dimensionality. Annals of Statistics, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2012, 40 (5), pp.2667-2696. ⟨10.1214/12-AOS1046⟩. ⟨hal-00602211v3⟩

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