Title:
Statistical inference for high dimensional data with low rank structure

dc.contributor.advisor Koltchinskii, Vladimir
dc.contributor.author Zhou, Fan
dc.contributor.committeeMember Chow, Edmond
dc.contributor.committeeMember Zha, Hongyuan
dc.contributor.committeeMember Zhilova, Mayya
dc.contributor.committeeMember Davenport, Mark
dc.contributor.committeeMember Kang, Sung Ha
dc.contributor.department Mathematics
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-16T17:22:49Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-16T17:22:49Z
dc.date.created 2018-12
dc.date.issued 2018-10-19
dc.date.submitted December 2018
dc.date.updated 2019-01-16T17:22:49Z
dc.description.abstract We study two major topics on statistical inference for high dimensional data with low rank structure occurred in many machine learning and statistics applications. The first topic is about nonparametric estimation of low rank matrix valued function with applications in building dynamic recommender systems and recovering euclidean distance matrices in molecular biology. We propose an innovative nuclear norm penalized local polynomial estimator and establish an upper bound on its point-wise risk measured by Frobenius norm. Then we extend this estimator globally and prove an upper bound on its integrated risk measured by $L_2$-norm. We also propose another new estimator based on bias-reducing kernels to study the case when the matrix valued function is not necessarily low rank and establish an upper bound on its risk measured by $L_{\infty}$-norm. We show that the obtained rates are all optimal up to some logarithmic factor in minimax sense. Finally, we propose an adaptive estimation procedure for practitioners based on Lepski's method and the penalized data splitting technique which is computationally efficient and can be easily implemented and parallelized. The other topic is about spectral perturbation analysis of higher order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) of tensor under Gaussian noise. Given a tensor contaminated with Gaussian noise, we establish sharp upper bounds on the perturbation of linear forms of singular vectors of HOSVD. In particular, sharp upper bounds are proved for the component-wise perturbation of singular vectors. These results can be applied on sub-tensor localization and low rank tensor denoising.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/60750
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Nonparametric statistics
dc.subject Matrix completion
dc.subject Low rank
dc.subject Nuclear norm
dc.subject Tensor
dc.subject Singular vector perturbation
dc.title Statistical inference for high dimensional data with low rank structure
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Koltchinskii, Vladimir
local.contributor.corporatename College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename School of Mathematics
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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