统计推断中的主要范式取决于I.I.D.的结构。来自假设的无限人群的数据。尽管它取得了成功，但在复杂的数据结构下，即使在清楚无限人口所代表的内容的情况下，该框架在复杂的数据结构下仍然不灵活。在本文中，我们探讨了一个替代框架，在该框架中，推断只是对模型误差的不变性假设，例如交换性或符号对称性。作为解决这个不变推理问题的一般方法，我们提出了一个基于随机的过程。我们证明了该过程的渐近有效性的一般条件，并在许多数据结构中说明了，包括单向和双向布局中的群集误差。我们发现，通过残差随机化的不变推断具有三个吸引人的属性：（1）在弱且可解释的条件下是有效的，可以解决重型数据，有限聚类甚至一些高维设置的问题。 （2）它在有限样品中是可靠的，因为它不依赖经典渐近学所需的规律性条件。 （3）它以适应数据结构的统一方式解决了推断问题。另一方面，诸如OLS或Bootstrap之类的经典程序以I.I.D.为前提。结构，只要实际问题结构不同，就需要修改。经典框架中的这种不匹配导致了多种可靠的误差技术和自举变体，这些变体经常混淆应用研究。我们通过广泛的经验评估证实了这些发现。残留随机化对许多替代方案的表现有利，包括可靠的误差方法，自举变体和分层模型。

Classical asymptotic theory for statistical inference usually involves calibrating a statistic by fixing the dimension $d$ while letting the sample size $n$ increase to infinity. Recently, much effort has been dedicated towards understanding how these methods behave in high-dimensional settings, where $d$ and $n$ both increase to infinity together. This often leads to different inference procedures, depending on the assumptions about the dimensionality, leaving the practitioner in a bind: given a dataset with 100 samples in 20 dimensions, should they calibrate by assuming $n \gg d$, or $d/n \approx 0.2$? This paper considers the goal of dimension-agnostic inference; developing methods whose validity does not depend on any assumption on $d$ versus $n$. We introduce an approach that uses variational representations of existing test statistics along with sample splitting and self-normalization to produce a new test statistic with a Gaussian limiting distribution, regardless of how $d$ scales with $n$. The resulting statistic can be viewed as a careful modification of degenerate U-statistics, dropping diagonal blocks and retaining off-diagonal blocks. We exemplify our technique for some classical problems including one-sample mean and covariance testing, and show that our tests have minimax rate-optimal power against appropriate local alternatives. In most settings, our cross U-statistic matches the high-dimensional power of the corresponding (degenerate) U-statistic up to a $\sqrt{2}$ factor.

Testing the significance of a variable or group of variables $X$ for predicting a response $Y$, given additional covariates $Z$, is a ubiquitous task in statistics. A simple but common approach is to specify a linear model, and then test whether the regression coefficient for $X$ is non-zero. However, when the model is misspecified, the test may have poor power, for example when $X$ is involved in complex interactions, or lead to many false rejections. In this work we study the problem of testing the model-free null of conditional mean independence, i.e. that the conditional mean of $Y$ given $X$ and $Z$ does not depend on $X$. We propose a simple and general framework that can leverage flexible nonparametric or machine learning methods, such as additive models or random forests, to yield both robust error control and high power. The procedure involves using these methods to perform regressions, first to estimate a form of projection of $Y$ on $X$ and $Z$ using one half of the data, and then to estimate the expected conditional covariance between this projection and $Y$ on the remaining half of the data. While the approach is general, we show that a version of our procedure using spline regression achieves what we show is the minimax optimal rate in this nonparametric testing problem. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach both in terms of maintaining Type I error control, and power, compared to several existing approaches.

套索是一种高维回归的方法，当时，当协变量$ p $的订单数量或大于观测值$ n $时，通常使用它。由于两个基本原因，经典的渐近态性理论不适用于该模型：$（1）$正规风险是非平滑的； $（2）$估算器$ \ wideHat {\ boldsymbol {\ theta}} $与true参数vector $ \ boldsymbol {\ theta}^*$无法忽略。结果，标准的扰动论点是渐近正态性的传统基础。另一方面，套索估计器可以精确地以$ n $和$ p $大，$ n/p $的订单为一。这种表征首先是在使用I.I.D的高斯设计的情况下获得的。协变量：在这里，我们将其推广到具有非偏差协方差结构的高斯相关设计。这是根据更简单的``固定设计''模型表示的。我们在两个模型中各种数量的分布之间的距离上建立了非反应界限，它们在合适的稀疏类别中均匀地固定在信号上$ \ boldsymbol {\ theta}^*$。作为应用程序，我们研究了借助拉索的分布，并表明需要校正程度对于计算有效的置信区间是必要的。

由于其出色的经验表现，随机森林是过去十年中使用的机器学习方法之一。然而，由于其黑框的性质，在许多大数据应用中很难解释随机森林的结果。量化各个特征在随机森林中的实用性可以大大增强其解释性。现有的研究表明，一些普遍使用的特征对随机森林的重要性措施遭受了偏见问题。此外，对于大多数现有方法，缺乏全面的规模和功率分析。在本文中，我们通过假设检验解决了问题，并提出了一个自由化特征 - 弥散性相关测试（事实）的框架，以评估具有偏见性属性的随机森林模型中给定特征的重要性，我们零假设涉及该特征是否与所有其他特征有条件地独立于响应。关于高维随机森林一致性的一些最新发展，对随机森林推断的这种努力得到了赋予的能力。在存在功能依赖性的情况下，我们的事实测试的香草版可能会遇到偏见问题。我们利用偏置校正的不平衡和调节技术。我们通过增强功率的功能转换将合奏的想法进一步纳入事实统计范围。在相当普遍的具有依赖特征的高维非参数模型设置下，我们正式确定事实可以提供理论上合理的随机森林具有P值，并通过非催化分析享受吸引人的力量。新建议的方法的理论结果和有限样本优势通过几个模拟示例和与Covid-19的经济预测应用进行了说明。

我们提出了对学度校正随机块模型（DCSBM）的合适性测试。该测试基于调整后的卡方统计量，用于测量$ n $多项式分布的组之间的平等性，该分布具有$ d_1，\ dots，d_n $观测值。在网络模型的背景下，多项式的数量（$ n $）的数量比观测值数量（$ d_i $）快得多，与节点$ i $的度相对应，因此设置偏离了经典的渐近学。我们表明，只要$ \ {d_i \} $的谐波平均值生长到无穷大，就可以使统计量在NULL下分配。顺序应用时，该测试也可以用于确定社区数量。该测试在邻接矩阵的压缩版本上进行操作，因此在学位上有条件，因此对大型稀疏网络具有高度可扩展性。我们结合了一个新颖的想法，即在测试$ K $社区时根据$（k+1）$ - 社区分配来压缩行。这种方法在不牺牲计算效率的情况下增加了顺序应用中的力量，我们证明了它在恢复社区数量方面的一致性。由于测试统计量不依赖于特定的替代方案，因此其效用超出了顺序测试，可用于同时测试DCSBM家族以外的各种替代方案。特别是，我们证明该测试与具有社区结构的潜在可变性网络模型的一般家庭一致。

即使是最精确的经济数据集也具有嘈杂，丢失，离散化或私有化的变量。实证研究的标准工作流程涉及数据清理，然后是数据分析，通常忽略数据清洁的偏差和方差后果。我们制定了具有损坏数据的因果推理的半造型模型，以包括数据清洁和数据分析。我们提出了一种新的数据清洁，估计和推理的新的端到端程序，以及数据清洁调整的置信区间。通过有限的示例参数，我们证明了因果关系参数的估算器的一致性，高斯近似和半游戏效率。 Gaussian近似的速率为N ^ { - 1/2} $，如平均治疗效果，如平均治疗效果，并且优雅地为当地参数劣化，例如特定人口统计的异构治疗效果。我们的关键假设是真正的协变量是较低的等级。在我们的分析中，我们为矩阵完成，统计学习和半统计统计提供了非对症的理论贡献。我们验证了数据清洁调整的置信区间隔的覆盖范围校准，以类似于2020年美国人口普查中实施的差异隐私。

We develop a general framework for distribution-free predictive inference in regression, using conformal inference. The proposed methodology allows for the construction of a prediction band for the response variable using any estimator of the regression function. The resulting prediction band preserves the consistency properties of the original estimator under standard assumptions, while guaranteeing finite-sample marginal coverage even when these assumptions do not hold. We analyze and compare, both empirically and theoretically, the two major variants of our conformal framework: full conformal inference and split conformal inference, along with a related jackknife method. These methods offer different tradeoffs between statistical accuracy (length of resulting prediction intervals) and computational efficiency. As extensions, we develop a method for constructing valid in-sample prediction intervals called rank-one-out conformal inference, which has essentially the same computational efficiency as split conformal inference. We also describe an extension of our procedures for producing prediction bands with locally varying length, in order to adapt to heteroskedascity in the data. Finally, we propose a model-free notion of variable importance, called leave-one-covariate-out or LOCO inference. Accompanying this paper is an R package conformalInference that implements all of the proposals we have introduced. In the spirit of reproducibility, all of our empirical results can also be easily (re)generated using this package.

强大的机器学习模型的开发中的一个重要障碍是协变量的转变，当训练和测试集的输入分布时发生的分配换档形式在条件标签分布保持不变时发生。尽管现实世界应用的协变量转变普遍存在，但在现代机器学习背景下的理论理解仍然缺乏。在这项工作中，我们检查协变量的随机特征回归的精确高尺度渐近性，并在该设置中提出了限制测试误差，偏差和方差的精确表征。我们的结果激发了一种自然部分秩序，通过协变速转移，提供足够的条件来确定何时何时损害（甚至有助于）测试性能。我们发现，过度分辨率模型表现出增强的协会转变的鲁棒性，为这种有趣现象提供了第一个理论解释之一。此外，我们的分析揭示了分销和分发外概率性能之间的精确线性关系，为这一令人惊讶的近期实证观察提供了解释。

Integrative analysis of data from multiple sources is critical to making generalizable discoveries. Associations that are consistently observed across multiple source populations are more likely to be generalized to target populations with possible distributional shifts. In this paper, we model the heterogeneous multi-source data with multiple high-dimensional regressions and make inferences for the maximin effect (Meinshausen, B{\"u}hlmann, AoS, 43(4), 1801--1830). The maximin effect provides a measure of stable associations across multi-source data. A significant maximin effect indicates that a variable has commonly shared effects across multiple source populations, and these shared effects may be generalized to a broader set of target populations. There are challenges associated with inferring maximin effects because its point estimator can have a non-standard limiting distribution. We devise a novel sampling method to construct valid confidence intervals for maximin effects. The proposed confidence interval attains a parametric length. This sampling procedure and the related theoretical analysis are of independent interest for solving other non-standard inference problems. Using genetic data on yeast growth in multiple environments, we demonstrate that the genetic variants with significant maximin effects have generalizable effects under new environments.

我们讨论了具有未知IV有效性的线性仪器变量（IV）模型中识别的基本问题。我们重新审视了流行的多数和多元化规则，并表明通常没有识别条件是“且仅在总体上”。假设“最稀少的规则”，该规则等同于多数规则，但在计算算法中变得运作，我们研究并证明了基于两步选择的其他IV估计器的非convex惩罚方法的优势，就两步选择而言选择一致性和单独弱IV的适应性。此外，我们提出了一种与识别条件保持一致的替代较低的惩罚，并同时提供甲骨文稀疏结构。与先前的文献相比，针对静脉强度较弱的估计仪得出了理想的理论特性。使用模拟证明了有限样本特性，并且选择和估计方法应用于有关贸易对经济增长的影响的经验研究。

In nonparametric independence testing, we observe i.i.d.\ data $\{(X_i,Y_i)\}_{i=1}^n$, where $X \in \mathcal{X}, Y \in \mathcal{Y}$ lie in any general spaces, and we wish to test the null that $X$ is independent of $Y$. Modern test statistics such as the kernel Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC) and Distance Covariance (dCov) have intractable null distributions due to the degeneracy of the underlying U-statistics. Thus, in practice, one often resorts to using permutation testing, which provides a nonasymptotic guarantee at the expense of recalculating the quadratic-time statistics (say) a few hundred times. This paper provides a simple but nontrivial modification of HSIC and dCov (called xHSIC and xdCov, pronounced ``cross'' HSIC/dCov) so that they have a limiting Gaussian distribution under the null, and thus do not require permutations. This requires building on the newly developed theory of cross U-statistics by Kim and Ramdas (2020), and in particular developing several nontrivial extensions of the theory in Shekhar et al. (2022), which developed an analogous permutation-free kernel two-sample test. We show that our new tests, like the originals, are consistent against fixed alternatives, and minimax rate optimal against smooth local alternatives. Numerical simulations demonstrate that compared to the full dCov or HSIC, our variants have the same power up to a $\sqrt 2$ factor, giving practitioners a new option for large problems or data-analysis pipelines where computation, not sample size, could be the bottleneck.

加权最近的邻居（WNN）估计量通常用作平均回归估计的灵活且易于实现的非参数工具。袋装技术是一种优雅的方式，可以自动生成最近邻居的重量的WNN估计器；我们将最终的估计量命名为分布最近的邻居（DNN），以便于参考。然而，这种估计器缺乏分布结果，从而将其应用于统计推断。此外，当平均回归函数具有高阶平滑度时，DNN无法达到最佳的非参数收敛率，这主要是由于偏差问题。在这项工作中，我们对DNN提供了深入的技术分析，我们建议通过线性将两个DNN估计量与不同的子采样量表进行线性相结合，从而提出了DNN估计量的偏差方法，从而导致新型的两尺度DNN（TDNN（TDNN） ）估计器。两尺度的DNN估计量具有等效的WNN表示，重量承认明确形式，有些则是负面的。我们证明，由于使用负权重，两尺度DNN估计器在四阶平滑度条件下估算回归函数时享有最佳的非参数收敛速率。我们进一步超出了估计，并确定DNN和两个规模的DNN均无渐进地正常，因为亚次采样量表和样本量差异到无穷大。对于实际实施，我们还使用二尺度DNN的Jacknife和Bootstrap技术提供方差估计器和分配估计器。可以利用这些估计器来构建有效的置信区间，以用于回归函数的非参数推断。建议的两尺度DNN方法的理论结果和吸引人的有限样本性能用几个数值示例说明了。

This paper provides estimation and inference methods for a conditional average treatment effects (CATE) characterized by a high-dimensional parameter in both homogeneous cross-sectional and unit-heterogeneous dynamic panel data settings. In our leading example, we model CATE by interacting the base treatment variable with explanatory variables. The first step of our procedure is orthogonalization, where we partial out the controls and unit effects from the outcome and the base treatment and take the cross-fitted residuals. This step uses a novel generic cross-fitting method we design for weakly dependent time series and panel data. This method "leaves out the neighbors" when fitting nuisance components, and we theoretically power it by using Strassen's coupling. As a result, we can rely on any modern machine learning method in the first step, provided it learns the residuals well enough. Second, we construct an orthogonal (or residual) learner of CATE -- the Lasso CATE -- that regresses the outcome residual on the vector of interactions of the residualized treatment with explanatory variables. If the complexity of CATE function is simpler than that of the first-stage regression, the orthogonal learner converges faster than the single-stage regression-based learner. Third, we perform simultaneous inference on parameters of the CATE function using debiasing. We also can use ordinary least squares in the last two steps when CATE is low-dimensional. In heterogeneous panel data settings, we model the unobserved unit heterogeneity as a weakly sparse deviation from Mundlak (1978)'s model of correlated unit effects as a linear function of time-invariant covariates and make use of L1-penalization to estimate these models. We demonstrate our methods by estimating price elasticities of groceries based on scanner data. We note that our results are new even for the cross-sectional (i.i.d) case.

We consider the problem of estimating a multivariate function $f_0$ of bounded variation (BV), from noisy observations $y_i = f_0(x_i) + z_i$ made at random design points $x_i \in \mathbb{R}^d$, $i=1,\ldots,n$. We study an estimator that forms the Voronoi diagram of the design points, and then solves an optimization problem that regularizes according to a certain discrete notion of total variation (TV): the sum of weighted absolute differences of parameters $\theta_i,\theta_j$ (which estimate the function values $f_0(x_i),f_0(x_j)$) at all neighboring cells $i,j$ in the Voronoi diagram. This is seen to be equivalent to a variational optimization problem that regularizes according to the usual continuum (measure-theoretic) notion of TV, once we restrict the domain to functions that are piecewise constant over the Voronoi diagram. The regression estimator under consideration hence performs (shrunken) local averaging over adaptively formed unions of Voronoi cells, and we refer to it as the Voronoigram, following the ideas in Koenker (2005), and drawing inspiration from Tukey's regressogram (Tukey, 1961). Our contributions in this paper span both the conceptual and theoretical frontiers: we discuss some of the unique properties of the Voronoigram in comparison to TV-regularized estimators that use other graph-based discretizations; we derive the asymptotic limit of the Voronoi TV functional; and we prove that the Voronoigram is minimax rate optimal (up to log factors) for estimating BV functions that are essentially bounded.

随机奇异值分解（RSVD）是用于计算大型数据矩阵截断的SVD的一类计算算法。给定A $ n \ times n $对称矩阵$ \ mathbf {m} $，原型RSVD算法输出通过计算$ \ mathbf {m mathbf {m} $的$ k $引导singular vectors的近似m}^{g} \ mathbf {g} $;这里$ g \ geq 1 $是一个整数，$ \ mathbf {g} \ in \ mathbb {r}^{n \ times k} $是一个随机的高斯素描矩阵。在本文中，我们研究了一般的“信号加上噪声”框架下的RSVD的统计特性，即，观察到的矩阵$ \ hat {\ mathbf {m}} $被认为是某种真实但未知的加法扰动信号矩阵$ \ mathbf {m} $。我们首先得出$ \ ell_2 $（频谱规范）和$ \ ell_ {2 \ to \ infty} $（最大行行列$ \ ell_2 $ norm）$ \ hat {\ hat {\ Mathbf {M}} $和信号矩阵$ \ Mathbf {M} $的真实单数向量。这些上限取决于信噪比（SNR）和功率迭代$ g $的数量。观察到一个相变现象，其中较小的SNR需要较大的$ g $值以保证$ \ ell_2 $和$ \ ell_ {2 \ to \ fo \ infty} $ distances的收敛。我们还表明，每当噪声矩阵满足一定的痕量生长条件时，这些相变发生的$ g $的阈值都会很清晰。最后，我们得出了近似奇异向量的行波和近似矩阵的进入波动的正常近似。我们通过将RSVD的几乎最佳性能保证在应用于三个统计推断问题的情况下，即社区检测，矩阵完成和主要的组件分析，并使用缺失的数据来说明我们的理论结果。

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矩阵值数据在许多应用中越来越普遍。这种类型数据的大多数现有的聚类方法都是针对均值模型定制的，并且不考虑特征的依赖结构，这可能非常有信息，尤其是在高维设置中。要从群集结构中提取信息以进行群集，我们提出了一种以矩阵形式排列的特征的新潜在变量模型，其中一些未知的隶属矩阵表示行和列的群集。在该模型下，我们进一步提出了一类使用加权协方差矩阵的差异作为异化测量的分层聚类算法。从理论上讲，我们表明，在温和条件下，我们的算法在高维设置中达到聚类一致性。虽然这种一致性结果为我们的算法具有广泛的加权协方差矩阵，但该结果的条件取决于重量的选择。为了调查重量如何影响我们算法的理论性能，我们在我们的潜在变量模型下建立了群集的最小限制。鉴于这些结果，我们在使用此权重的意义上识别最佳权重，保证我们的算法在某些集群分离度量的大小方面是最佳的最佳速率。还讨论了我们具有最佳权重的算法的实际实现。最后，我们进行仿真研究以评估我们算法的有限样本性能，并将该方法应用于基因组数据集。

In many modern applications of deep learning the neural network has many more parameters than the data points used for its training. Motivated by those practices, a large body of recent theoretical research has been devoted to studying overparameterized models. One of the central phenomena in this regime is the ability of the model to interpolate noisy data, but still have test error lower than the amount of noise in that data. arXiv:1906.11300 characterized for which covariance structure of the data such a phenomenon can happen in linear regression if one considers the interpolating solution with minimum $\ell_2$-norm and the data has independent components: they gave a sharp bound on the variance term and showed that it can be small if and only if the data covariance has high effective rank in a subspace of small co-dimension. We strengthen and complete their results by eliminating the independence assumption and providing sharp bounds for the bias term. Thus, our results apply in a much more general setting than those of arXiv:1906.11300, e.g., kernel regression, and not only characterize how the noise is damped but also which part of the true signal is learned. Moreover, we extend the result to the setting of ridge regression, which allows us to explain another interesting phenomenon: we give general sufficient conditions under which the optimal regularization is negative.

在本文中，我们研究了在一组单位上进行的设计实验的问题，例如在线市场中的用户或用户组，以多个时间段，例如数周或数月。这些实验特别有助于研究对当前和未来结果具有因果影响的治疗（瞬时和滞后的影响）。设计问题涉及在实验之前或期间选择每个单元的治疗时间，以便最精确地估计瞬间和滞后的效果，实验后。这种治疗决策的优化可以通过降低其样本尺寸要求，直接最小化实验的机会成本。优化是我们提供近最优解的NP-Hard整数程序，当时在开始时进行设计决策（固定样本大小设计）。接下来，我们研究允许在实验期间进行适应性决策的顺序实验，并且还可能早期停止实验，进一步降低其成本。然而，这些实验的顺序性质使设计阶段和估计阶段复杂化。我们提出了一种新的算法，PGAE，通过自适应地制造治疗决策，估算治疗效果和绘制有效的实验后推理来解决这些挑战。 PGAE将来自贝叶斯统计，动态编程和样品分裂的思想结合起来。使用来自多个域的真实数据集的合成实验，我们证明了与基准相比，我们的固定样本尺寸和顺序实验的提出解决方案将实验的机会成本降低了50％和70％。