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Fangwei Wu

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A Generative High Quantile Homogeneity Test Using Bahadur Representation for Heteroskedastic High Quantile Regression of Tail Dependent Time Series

We consider a high quantile homogeneity test to determine whether a certain set of explanatory variables has homogeneous effects on different high quantiles of the response variable in the tail. To accommodate for situations under both the null and the alternative, the auxiliary process in this case may no longer be treated as stationary, and the problem requires a joint analysis of both homoscedastic and heteroskedastic high quantiles. For this, we develop a novel Bahadur representation result in the high quantile setting for a general class of tail dependent time series under potential heteroskedasticity, which can be of interest by its own. In particular, the Bahadur representation provides a foundation for reducing problems regarding nonlinear high quantile regression estimators to those regarding suitably constructed linear forms with an explicit error bound and can be transformative and useful in many statistical problems. We in the current article apply it to guide the development of a generative high quantile homogeneity test, which is then illustrated through applications to both synthetic and real data.

math.ST

ConquerNet: Convolution-Smoothed Quantile ReLU Neural Networks with Minimax Guarantees

Quantile regression is a fundamental tool for distributional learning but poses significant optimization challenges for deep models due to the non-smoothness of the pinball loss. We propose ConquerNet, a class of \textbf{con}volution-smoothed \textbf{qu}antil\textbf{e} \textbf{R}eLU neural \textbf{net}works, which yield smooth objectives while preserving the underlying quantile structure. We establish general nonasymptotic risk bounds for ConquerNet under mild conditions, providing minimax guarantees over Besov function classes. In numerical studies, we demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms standard quantile neural networks at multiple quantile levels, showing improved estimation accuracy and training efficiency across the board, with particularly pronounced advantages at high and low quantiles.

stat.ML