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In this paper we consider high-dimensional multiclass classification by sparse multinomial logistic regression. We propose first a feature selection procedure based on penalized maximum likelihood with a complexity penalty on the model size and derive the nonasymptotic bounds for misclassification excess risk of the resulting classifier. We establish also their tightness by deriving the corresponding minimax lower bounds. In particular, we show that there exist two regimes corresponding to small and large number of classes. The bounds can be reduced under the additional low noise condition. To find a penalized maximum likelihood solution with a complexity penalty requires, however, a combinatorial search over all possible models. To design a feature selection procedure computationally feasible for high-dimensional data, we propose multinomial logistic group Lasso and Slope classifiers and show that they also achieve the minimax order.

We consider high-dimensional binary classification by sparse logistic regression. We propose a model/feature selection procedure based on penalized maximum likelihood with a complexity penalty on the model size and derive the non-asymptotic bounds for the resulting misclassification excess risk. The bounds can be reduced under the additional low-noise condition. The proposed complexity penalty is remarkably related to the VC-dimension of a set of sparse linear classifiers. Implementation of any complexity penalty-based criterion, however, requires a combinatorial search over all possible models. To find a model selection procedure computationally feasible for high-dimensional data, we extend the Slope estimator for logistic regression and show that under an additional weighted restricted eigenvalue condition it is rate-optimal in the minimax sense.

We consider model selection in generalized linear models (GLM) for high-dimensional data and propose a wide class of model selection criteria based on penalized maximum likelihood with a complexity penalty on the model size. We derive a general nonasymptotic upper bound for the expected Kullback-Leibler divergence between the true distribution of the data and that generated by a selected model, and establish the corresponding minimax lower bounds for sparse GLM. For the properly chosen (nonlinear) penalty, the resulting penalized maximum likelihood estimator is shown to be asymptotically minimax and adaptive to the unknown sparsity. We discuss also possible extensions of the proposed approach to model selection in GLM under additional structural constraints and aggregation.

The paper considers model selection in regression under the additional structural constraints on admissible models where the number of potential predictors might be even larger than the available sample size. We develop a Bayesian formalism as a natural tool for generating a wide class of model selection criteria based on penalized least squares estimation with various complexity penalties associated with a prior on a model size. The resulting criteria are adaptive to structural constraints. We establish the upper bound for the quadratic risk of the resulting MAP estimator and the corresponding lower bound for the minimax risk over a set of admissible models of a given size. We then specify the class of priors (and, therefore, the class of complexity penalties) where for the "nearly-orthogonal" design the MAP estimator is asymptotically at least nearly-minimax (up to a log-factor) simultaneously over an entire range of sparse and dense setups. Moreover, when the numbers of admissible models are "small" (e.g., ordered variable selection) or, on the opposite, for the case of complete variable selection, the proposed estimator achieves the exact minimax rates., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0912.4387

We consider a problem of estimating a sparse group of sparse normal mean vectors. The proposed approach is based on penalized likelihood estimation with complexity penalties on the number of nonzero mean vectors and the numbers of their "significant" components, and can be performed by a computationally fast algorithm. The resulting estimators are developed within Bayesian framework and can be viewed as MAP estimators. We establish their adaptive minimaxity over a wide range of sparse and dense settings. The presented short simulation study demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed approach that successfully competes with the recently developed sparse group lasso estimator.

We consider a Bayesian approach to model selection in Gaussian linear regression, where the number of predictors might be much larger than the number of observations. From a frequentist view, the proposed procedure results in the penalized least squares estimation with a complexity penalty associated with a prior on the model size. We investigate the optimality properties of the resulting estimator. We establish the oracle inequality and specify conditions on the prior that imply its asymptotic minimaxity within a wide range of sparse and dense settings for "nearly-orthogonal" and "multicollinear" designs., Comment: 22 pages

We consider the problem of estimating the unknown response function in the Gaussian white noise model. We first utilize the recently developed Bayesian maximum a posteriori "testimation" procedure of Abramovich et al. (2007) for recovering an unknown high-dimensional Gaussian mean vector. The existing results for its upper error bounds over various sparse $l_p$-balls are extended to more general cases. We show that, for a properly chosen prior on the number of non-zero entries of the mean vector, the corresponding adaptive estimator is simultaneously asymptotically minimax in a wide range of sparse and dense $l_p$-balls. The proposed procedure is then applied in a wavelet context to derive adaptive global and level-wise wavelet estimators of the unknown response function in the Gaussian white noise model. These estimators are then proven to be, respectively, asymptotically near-minimax and minimax in a wide range of Besov balls. These results are also extended to the estimation of derivatives of the response function. Simulated examples are conducted to illustrate the performance of the proposed level-wise wavelet estimator in finite sample situations, and to compare it with several existing, Comment: 24 pages, 1 Figure; to appear in Biometrika (2010)

We consider a problem of recovering a high-dimensional vector $\mu$ observed in white noise, where the unknown vector $\mu$ is assumed to be sparse. The objective of the paper is to develop a Bayesian formalism which gives rise to a family of $l_0$-type penalties. The penalties are associated with various choices of the prior distributions $\pi_n(\cdot)$ on the number of nonzero entries of $\mu$ and, hence, are easy to interpret. The resulting Bayesian estimators lead to a general thresholding rule which accommodates many of the known thresholding and model selection procedures as particular cases corresponding to specific choices of $\pi_n(\cdot)$. Furthermore, they achieve optimality in a rather general setting under very mild conditions on the prior. We also specify the class of priors $\pi_n(\cdot)$ for which the resulting estimator is adaptively optimal (in the minimax sense) for a wide range of sparse sequences and consider several examples of such priors., Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053607000000226 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)