Robust high dimensional learning for Lipschitz and convex losses

Geoffrey Chinot (1) , Guillaume Lecué (1) , Matthieu Lerasle (2, 3)

1 ENSAE - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique
2 LMO - Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay
3 CELESTE - Statistique mathématique et apprentissage

We establish risk bounds for Regularized Empirical Risk Minimizers (RERM) when the loss is Lipschitz and convex and the regularization function is a norm. We obtain these results in the i.i.d. setup under subgaussian assumptions on the design. In a second part, a more general framework where the design might have heavier tails and data may be corrupted by outliers both in the design and the response variables is considered. In this situation, RERM performs poorly in general. We analyse an alternative procedure based on median-of-means principles and called "minmax MOM". We show optimal subgaussian deviation rates for these estimators in the relaxed setting. The main results are meta-theorems allowing a wide-range of applications to various problems in learning theory. To show a non-exhaustive sample of these potential applications, it is applied to classification problems with logistic loss functions regularized by LASSO and SLOPE, to regression problems with Huber loss regularized by Group LASSO, Total Variation and Fused LASSO and to matrix completion problems with quantile loss regularized by the nuclear norm. A short simulation study concludes the paper, illustrating in particular robustness properties of regularized minmax MOM procedures.

Mots clés: Lipschtiz and convex loss functions; Sparsity bounds; Rademacher complexity bounds; LASSO; SLOPE; Group LASSO; Total Variation; Fused LASSO; Nuclear norm matrix completion; Robust Learning

Domaines: Statistiques [math.ST]

Geoffrey Chinot, Guillaume Lecué, Matthieu Lerasle. Robust high dimensional learning for Lipschitz and convex losses. 2019. ⟨hal-02159943⟩