尽管U统计量在现代概率和统计学中存在着无处不在的，但其在依赖框架中的非反应分析可能被忽略了。在最近的一项工作中，已经证明了对统一的马尔可夫链的U级统计数据的新浓度不平等。在本文中，我们通过在三个不同的研究领域中进一步推动了当前知识状态，将这一理论突破付诸实践。首先，我们为使用MCMC方法估算痕量类积分运算符光谱的新指数不平等。新颖的是，这种结果适用于具有正征和负征值的内核，据我们所知，这是新的。此外，我们研究了使用成对损失函数和马尔可夫链样品的在线算法的概括性能。我们通过展示如何从任何在线学习者产生的假设序列中提取低风险假设来提供在线到批量转换结果。我们最终对马尔可夫链的不变度度量的密度进行了拟合优度测试的非反应分析。我们确定了一些类别的替代方案，基于$ L_2 $距离的测试具有规定的功率。

我们提出了一种统一的技术，用于顺序估计分布之间的凸面分歧，包括内核最大差异等积分概率度量，$ \ varphi $ - 像Kullback-Leibler发散，以及最佳运输成本，例如Wassersein距离的权力。这是通过观察到经验凸起分歧（部分有序）反向半角分离的实现来实现的，而可交换过滤耦合，其具有这些方法的最大不等式。这些技术似乎是对置信度序列和凸分流的现有文献的互补和强大的补充。我们构建一个离线到顺序设备，将各种现有的离线浓度不等式转换为可以连续监测的时间均匀置信序列，在任意停止时间提供有效的测试或置信区间。得到的顺序边界仅在相应的固定时间范围内支付迭代对数价格，保留对问题参数的相同依赖性（如适用的尺寸或字母大小）。这些结果也适用于更一般的凸起功能，如负差分熵，实证过程的高度和V型统计。

比较概率分布是许多机器学习算法的关键。最大平均差异（MMD）和最佳运输距离（OT）是在过去几年吸引丰富的关注的概率措施之间的两类距离。本文建立了一些条件，可以通过MMD规范控制Wassersein距离。我们的作品受到压缩统计学习（CSL）理论的推动，资源有效的大规模学习的一般框架，其中训练数据总结在单个向量（称为草图）中，该训练数据捕获与所考虑的学习任务相关的信息。在CSL中的现有结果启发，我们介绍了H \“较旧的较低限制的等距属性（H \”较旧的LRIP）并表明这家属性具有有趣的保证对压缩统计学习。基于MMD与Wassersein距离之间的关系，我们通过引入和研究学习任务的Wassersein可读性的概念来提供压缩统计学习的保证，即概率分布之间的某些特定于特定的特定度量，可以由Wassersein界定距离。

在本文中，我们考虑了基于系数的正则分布回归，该回归旨在从概率措施中回归到复制的内核希尔伯特空间（RKHS）的实现响应（RKHS），该响应将正则化放在系数上，而内核被假定为无限期的。 。该算法涉及两个采样阶段，第一阶段样本由分布组成，第二阶段样品是从这些分布中获得的。全面研究了回归函数的不同规律性范围内算法的渐近行为，并通过整体操作员技术得出学习率。我们在某些温和条件下获得最佳速率，这与单级采样的最小最佳速率相匹配。与文献中分布回归的内核方法相比，所考虑的算法不需要内核是对称的和阳性的半明确仪，因此为设计不确定的内核方法提供了一个简单的范式，从而丰富了分布回归的主题。据我们所知，这是使用不确定核进行分配回归的第一个结果，我们的算法可以改善饱和效果。

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.

We study a natural extension of classical empirical risk minimization, where the hypothesis space is a random subspace of a given space. In particular, we consider possibly data dependent subspaces spanned by a random subset of the data, recovering as a special case Nystrom approaches for kernel methods. Considering random subspaces naturally leads to computational savings, but the question is whether the corresponding learning accuracy is degraded. These statistical-computational tradeoffs have been recently explored for the least squares loss and self-concordant loss functions, such as the logistic loss. Here, we work to extend these results to convex Lipschitz loss functions, that might not be smooth, such as the hinge loss used in support vector machines. This unified analysis requires developing new proofs, that use different technical tools, such as sub-gaussian inputs, to achieve fast rates. Our main results show the existence of different settings, depending on how hard the learning problem is, for which computational efficiency can be improved with no loss in performance.

We study non-parametric estimation of the value function of an infinite-horizon $\gamma$-discounted Markov reward process (MRP) using observations from a single trajectory. We provide non-asymptotic guarantees for a general family of kernel-based multi-step temporal difference (TD) estimates, including canonical $K$-step look-ahead TD for $K = 1, 2, \ldots$ and the TD$(\lambda)$ family for $\lambda \in [0,1)$ as special cases. Our bounds capture its dependence on Bellman fluctuations, mixing time of the Markov chain, any mis-specification in the model, as well as the choice of weight function defining the estimator itself, and reveal some delicate interactions between mixing time and model mis-specification. For a given TD method applied to a well-specified model, its statistical error under trajectory data is similar to that of i.i.d. sample transition pairs, whereas under mis-specification, temporal dependence in data inflates the statistical error. However, any such deterioration can be mitigated by increased look-ahead. We complement our upper bounds by proving minimax lower bounds that establish optimality of TD-based methods with appropriately chosen look-ahead and weighting, and reveal some fundamental differences between value function estimation and ordinary non-parametric regression.

Network data are ubiquitous in modern machine learning, with tasks of interest including node classification, node clustering and link prediction. A frequent approach begins by learning an Euclidean embedding of the network, to which algorithms developed for vector-valued data are applied. For large networks, embeddings are learned using stochastic gradient methods where the sub-sampling scheme can be freely chosen. Despite the strong empirical performance of such methods, they are not well understood theoretically. Our work encapsulates representation methods using a subsampling approach, such as node2vec, into a single unifying framework. We prove, under the assumption that the graph is exchangeable, that the distribution of the learned embedding vectors asymptotically decouples. Moreover, we characterize the asymptotic distribution and provided rates of convergence, in terms of the latent parameters, which includes the choice of loss function and the embedding dimension. This provides a theoretical foundation to understand what the embedding vectors represent and how well these methods perform on downstream tasks. Notably, we observe that typically used loss functions may lead to shortcomings, such as a lack of Fisher consistency.

我们证明了连续和离散时间添加功能的浓度不平等和相关的PAC界限，用于可能是多元，不可逆扩散过程的无界函数。我们的分析依赖于通过泊松方程的方法，使我们能够考虑一系列非常广泛的指数性千古过程。这些结果增加了现有的浓度不平等，用于扩散过程的加性功能，这些功能仅适用于有界函数或从明显较小的类别中的过程的无限函数。我们通过两个截然不同的区域的例子来证明这些指数不平等的力量。考虑到在稀疏性约束下可能具有高维参数非线性漂移模型，我们应用连续的时间浓度结果来验证套索估计的受限特征值条件，这对于甲骨文不平等的推导至关重要。离散添加功能的结果用于研究未经调整的Langevin MCMC算法，用于采样中等重尾密度$ \ pi $。特别是，我们为多项式增长功能$ f $的样品蒙特卡洛估计量$ \ pi（f）提供PAC边界，以量化足够的样本和阶梯尺寸，以在规定的边距内近似具有很高的可能性。

We consider the problem of estimating the optimal transport map between a (fixed) source distribution $P$ and an unknown target distribution $Q$, based on samples from $Q$. The estimation of such optimal transport maps has become increasingly relevant in modern statistical applications, such as generative modeling. At present, estimation rates are only known in a few settings (e.g. when $P$ and $Q$ have densities bounded above and below and when the transport map lies in a H\"older class), which are often not reflected in practice. We present a unified methodology for obtaining rates of estimation of optimal transport maps in general function spaces. Our assumptions are significantly weaker than those appearing in the literature: we require only that the source measure $P$ satisfies a Poincar\'e inequality and that the optimal map be the gradient of a smooth convex function that lies in a space whose metric entropy can be controlled. As a special case, we recover known estimation rates for bounded densities and H\"older transport maps, but also obtain nearly sharp results in many settings not covered by prior work. For example, we provide the first statistical rates of estimation when $P$ is the normal distribution and the transport map is given by an infinite-width shallow neural network.

We consider autocovariance operators of a stationary stochastic process on a Polish space that is embedded into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We investigate how empirical estimates of these operators converge along realizations of the process under various conditions. In particular, we examine ergodic and strongly mixing processes and obtain several asymptotic results as well as finite sample error bounds. We provide applications of our theory in terms of consistency results for kernel PCA with dependent data and the conditional mean embedding of transition probabilities. Finally, we use our approach to examine the nonparametric estimation of Markov transition operators and highlight how our theory can give a consistency analysis for a large family of spectral analysis methods including kernel-based dynamic mode decomposition.

基于内核的测试提供了一个简单而有效的框架，该框架使用繁殖内核希尔伯特空间的理论设计非参数测试程序。在本文中，我们提出了新的理论工具，可用于在几种数据方案以及许多不同的测试问题中研究基于内核测试的渐近行为。与当前的方法不同，我们的方法避免使用冗长的$ u $和$ v $统计信息扩展并限制定理，该定理通常出现在文献中，并直接与希尔伯特空格上的随机功能合作。因此，我们的框架会导致对内核测试的简单明了的分析，只需要轻度的规律条件。此外，我们表明，通常可以通过证明我们方法所需的规律条件既足够又需要进行必要的规律条件来改进我们的分析。为了说明我们的方法的有效性，我们为有条件的独立性测试问题提供了一项新的内核测试，以及针对已知的基于内核测试的新分析。

在负面的感知问题中，我们给出了$ n $数据点$（{\ boldsymbol x} _i，y_i）$，其中$ {\ boldsymbol x} _i $是$ d $ -densional vector和$ y_i \ in \ { + 1，-1 \} $是二进制标签。数据不是线性可分离的，因此我们满足自己的内容，以找到最大的线性分类器，具有最大的\ emph {否定}余量。换句话说，我们想找到一个单位常规矢量$ {\ boldsymbol \ theta} $，最大化$ \ min_ {i \ le n} y_i \ langle {\ boldsymbol \ theta}，{\ boldsymbol x} _i \ rangle $ 。这是一个非凸优化问题（它相当于在Polytope中找到最大标准矢量），我们在两个随机模型下研究其典型属性。我们考虑比例渐近，其中$ n，d \ to \ idty $以$ n / d \ to \ delta $，并在最大边缘$ \ kappa _ {\ text {s}}（\ delta）上证明了上限和下限）$或 - 等效 - 在其逆函数$ \ delta _ {\ text {s}}（\ kappa）$。换句话说，$ \ delta _ {\ text {s}}（\ kappa）$是overparametization阈值：以$ n / d \ le \ delta _ {\ text {s}}（\ kappa） - \ varepsilon $一个分类器实现了消失的训练错误，具有高概率，而以$ n / d \ ge \ delta _ {\ text {s}}（\ kappa）+ \ varepsilon $。我们在$ \ delta _ {\ text {s}}（\ kappa）$匹配，以$ \ kappa \ to - \ idty $匹配。然后，我们分析了线性编程算法来查找解决方案，并表征相应的阈值$ \ delta _ {\ text {lin}}（\ kappa）$。我们观察插值阈值$ \ delta _ {\ text {s}}（\ kappa）$和线性编程阈值$ \ delta _ {\ text {lin {lin}}（\ kappa）$之间的差距，提出了行为的问题其他算法。

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.

广义贝叶斯推理使用损失函数而不是可能性的先前信仰更新，因此可以用于赋予鲁棒性，以防止可能的错误规范的可能性。在这里，我们认为广泛化的贝叶斯推论斯坦坦差异作为损失函数的损失，由应用程序的可能性含有难治性归一化常数。在这种情况下，斯坦因差异来避免归一化恒定的评估，并产生封闭形式或使用标准马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗的通用后出版物。在理论层面上，我们显示了一致性，渐近的正常性和偏见 - 稳健性，突出了这些物业如何受到斯坦因差异的选择。然后，我们提供关于一系列棘手分布的数值实验，包括基于内核的指数家庭模型和非高斯图形模型的应用。

我们调查了一定类别的功能不等式，称为弱Poincar的不等式，以使Markov链的收敛性与均衡相结合。我们表明，这使得SubGoom测量收敛界的直接和透明的推导出用于独立的Metropolis - Hastings采样器和用于棘手似然性的伪边缘方法，后者在许多实际设置中是子表芯。这些结果依赖于马尔可夫链之间的新量化比较定理。相关证据比依赖于漂移/较小化条件的证据更简单，并且所开发的工具允许我们恢复并进一步延长特定情况的已知结果。我们能够为伪边缘算法的实际使用提供新的见解，分析平均近似贝叶斯计算（ABC）的效果以及独立平均值的产品，以及研究与之相关的逻辑重量的情况粒子边缘大都市 - 黑斯廷斯（PMMH）。

Over the last decade, an approach that has gained a lot of popularity to tackle non-parametric testing problems on general (i.e., non-Euclidean) domains is based on the notion of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embedding of probability distributions. The main goal of our work is to understand the optimality of two-sample tests constructed based on this approach. First, we show that the popular MMD (maximum mean discrepancy) two-sample test is not optimal in terms of the separation boundary measured in Hellinger distance. Second, we propose a modification to the MMD test based on spectral regularization by taking into account the covariance information (which is not captured by the MMD test) and prove the proposed test to be minimax optimal with a smaller separation boundary than that achieved by the MMD test. Third, we propose an adaptive version of the above test which involves a data-driven strategy to choose the regularization parameter and show the adaptive test to be almost minimax optimal up to a logarithmic factor. Moreover, our results hold for the permutation variant of the test where the test threshold is chosen elegantly through the permutation of the samples. Through numerical experiments on synthetic and real-world data, we demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed test in comparison to the MMD test.

我们研究马尔可夫决策过程（MDP）框架中的离线数据驱动的顺序决策问题。为了提高学习政策的概括性和适应性，我们建议通过一套关于在政策诱导的固定分配所在的分发的一套平均奖励来评估每项政策。给定由某些行为策略生成的多个轨迹的预收集数据集，我们的目标是在预先指定的策略类中学习一个强大的策略，可以最大化此集的最小值。利用半参数统计的理论，我们开发了一种统计上有效的策略学习方法，用于估算DE NED强大的最佳政策。在数据集中的总决策点方面建立了达到对数因子的速率最佳遗憾。

我们研究了情节块MDP中模型估计和无奖励学习的问题。在这些MDP中，决策者可以访问少数潜在状态产生的丰富观察或上下文。我们首先对基于固定行为策略生成的数据估算潜在状态解码功能（从观测到潜在状态的映射）感兴趣。我们在估计此功能的错误率上得出了信息理论的下限，并提出了接近此基本限制的算法。反过来，我们的算法还提供了MDP的所有组件的估计值。然后，我们研究在无奖励框架中学习近乎最佳政策的问题。根据我们有效的模型估计算法，我们表明我们可以以最佳的速度推断出策略（随着收集样品的数量增长大）的最佳策略。有趣的是，我们的分析提供了必要和充分的条件，在这些条件下，利用块结构可以改善样本复杂性，以识别近乎最佳的策略。当满足这些条件时，Minimax无奖励设置中的样本复杂性将通过乘法因子$ n $提高，其中$ n $是可能的上下文数量。

当在未知约束集中任意变化的分布中生成数据时，我们会考虑使用专家建议的预测。这种半反向的设置包括（在极端）经典的I.I.D.设置时，当未知约束集限制为单身人士时，当约束集是所有分布的集合时，不受约束的对抗设置。对冲状态中，对冲算法（长期以来已知是最佳的最佳速率（速率））最近被证明是对I.I.D.的最佳最小值。数据。在这项工作中，我们建议放松I.I.D.通过在约束集的所有自然顺序上寻求适应性来假设。我们在各个级别的Minimax遗憾中提供匹配的上限和下限，表明确定性学习率的对冲在极端之外是次优的，并证明人们可以在各个级别的各个层面上都能适应Minimax的遗憾。我们使用以下规范化领导者（FTRL）框架实现了这种最佳适应性，并采用了一种新型的自适应正则化方案，该方案隐含地缩放为当前预测分布的熵的平方根，而不是初始预测分布的熵。最后，我们提供了新的技术工具来研究FTRL沿半逆转频谱的统计性能。