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Recursive Aggregation of Estimators by Mirror Descent Algorithm with Averaging

2005/05/16 by Anatoli Juditsky, Alexander Nazin, Juditsky, Anatoli +6
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #62G99 #FOS: Mathematics #Face and Expression Recognition #Machine Learning and Algorithms #Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques #Statistics Theory (math.ST) #math.ST #msc:62G99 #stat.TH

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0505333

29 pages; mai 2005

openalex publication_date 2005/05/16 · arxiv created 2006/03/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We consider a recursive algorithm to construct an aggregated estimator from a finite number of base decision rules in the classification problem. The estimator approximately minimizes a convex risk functional under the l1-constraint. It is defined by a stochastic version of the mirror descent algorithm (i.e., of the method which performs gradient descent in the dual space) with an additional averaging. The main result of the paper is an upper bound for the expected accuracy of the proposed estimator. This bound is of the order √((log M)/t) with an explicit and small constant factor, where M is the dimension of the problem and t stands for the sample size. A similar bound is proved for a more general setting that covers, in particular, the regression model with squared loss.

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