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Geoffrey Chinot

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arXiv2021

AdaBoost and robust one-bit compressed sensing

This paper studies binary classification in robust one-bit compressed sensing with adversarial errors. It is assumed that the model is overparameterized and that the parameter of interest is effectively sparse. AdaBoost is considered, and, through its relation to the max-$\ell_1$-margin-classifier, prediction error bounds are derived. The developed theory is general and allows for heavy-tailed feature distributions, requiring only a weak moment assumption and an anti-concentration condition. Improved convergence rates are shown when the features satisfy a small deviation lower bound. In particular, the results provide an explanation why interpolating adversarial noise can be harmless for classification problems. Simulations illustrate the presented theory.

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arXiv2021

On the robustness of minimum norm interpolators and regularized empirical risk minimizers

This article develops a general theory for minimum norm interpolating estimators and regularized empirical risk minimizers (RERM) in linear models in the presence of additive, potentially adversarial, errors. In particular, no conditions on the errors are imposed. A quantitative bound for the prediction error is given, relating it to the Rademacher complexity of the covariates, the norm of the minimum norm interpolator of the errors and the size of the subdifferential around the true parameter. The general theory is illustrated for Gaussian features and several norms: The $\ell_1$, $\ell_2$, group Lasso and nuclear norms. In case of sparsity or low-rank inducing norms, minimum norm interpolators and RERM yield a prediction error of the order of the average noise level, provided that the overparameterization is at least a logarithmic factor larger than the number of samples and that, in case of RERM, the regularization parameter is small enough. Lower bounds that show near optimality of the results complement the analysis.

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arXiv2021

Robust high dimensional learning for Lipschitz and convex losses

We establish risk bounds for Regularized Empirical Risk Minimizers (RERM) when the loss is Lipschitz and convex and the regularization function is a norm. In a first part, 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 and Total Variation. Another advantage of the minmax MOM formulation is that it suggests a systematic way to slightly modify descent based algorithms used in high-dimensional statistics to make them robust to outliers. We illustrate this principle in a Simulations section where a minmax MOM version of classical proximal descent algorithms are turned into robust to outliers algorithms.

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arXiv2021

On the robustness of the minimum $\ell_2$ interpolator

We analyse the interpolator with minimal $\ell_2$-norm $\hatβ$ in a general high dimensional linear regression framework where $\mathbb Y=\mathbb Xβ^*+ξ$ where $\mathbb X$ is a random $n\times p$ matrix with independent $\mathcal N(0,Σ)$ rows and without assumption on the noise vector $ξ\in \mathbb R^n$. We prove that, with high probability, the prediction loss of this estimator is bounded from above by $(\|β^*\|^2_2r_{cn}(Σ)\vee \|ξ\|^2)/n$, where $r_{k}(Σ)=\sum_{i\geq k}λ_i(Σ)$ are the rests of the sum of eigenvalues of $Σ$. These bounds show a transition in the rates. For high signal to noise ratios, the rates $\|β^*\|^2_2r_{cn}(Σ)/n$ broadly improve the existing ones. For low signal to noise ratio, we also provide lower bound holding with large probability. Under assumptions on the sprectrum of $Σ$, this lower bound is of order $\| ξ\|_2^2/n$, matching the upper bound. Consequently, in the large noise regime, we are able to precisely track the prediction error with large probability. This results give new insight when the interpolation can be harmless in high dimensions.

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arXiv2020

ERM and RERM are optimal estimators for regression problems when malicious outliers corrupt the labels

We study Empirical Risk Minimizers (ERM) and Regularized Empirical Risk Minimizers (RERM) for regression problems with convex and $L$-Lipschitz loss functions. We consider a setting where $|\cO|$ malicious outliers contaminate the labels. In that case, under a local Bernstein condition, we show that the $L_2$-error rate is bounded by $ r_N + AL |\cO|/N$, where $N$ is the total number of observations, $r_N$ is the $L_2$-error rate in the non-contaminated setting and $A$ is a parameter coming from the local Bernstein condition. When $r_N$ is minimax-rate-optimal in a non-contaminated setting, the rate $r_N + AL|\cO|/N$ is also minimax-rate-optimal when $|\cO|$ outliers contaminate the label. The main results of the paper can be used for many non-regularized and regularized procedures under weak assumptions on the noise. We present results for Huber's M-estimators (without penalization or regularized by the $\ell_1$-norm) and for general regularized learning problems in reproducible kernel Hilbert spaces when the noise can be heavy-tailed.

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arXiv2020

Gradient Descent can Learn Less Over-parameterized Two-layer Neural Networks on Classification Problems

Recently, several studies have proven the global convergence and generalization abilities of the gradient descent method for two-layer ReLU networks. Most studies especially focused on the regression problems with the squared loss function, except for a few, and the importance of the positivity of the neural tangent kernel has been pointed out. On the other hand, the performance of gradient descent on classification problems using the logistic loss function has not been well studied, and further investigation of this problem structure is possible. In this work, we demonstrate that the separability assumption using a neural tangent model is more reasonable than the positivity condition of the neural tangent kernel and provide a refined convergence analysis of the gradient descent for two-layer networks with smooth activations. A remarkable point of our result is that our convergence and generalization bounds have much better dependence on the network width in comparison to related studies. Consequently, our theory provides a generalization guarantee for less over-parameterized two-layer networks, while most studies require much higher over-parameterization.

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arXiv2019

Robust learning and complexity dependent bounds for regularized problems

We study Regularized Empirical Risk Minimizers (RERM) and minmax Median-Of-Means (MOM) estimators where the regularization function $ϕ(\cdot)$ is an even convex function. We obtain bounds on the $L_2$-estimation error and the excess risk that depend on $ϕ(f^*)$, where $f^*$ is the minimizer of the risk over a class $F$. The estimators are based on loss functions that are both Lipschitz and convex. Results for the RERM are derived under weak assumptions on the outputs and a sub-Gaussian assumption on the class $\{ (f-f^*)(X), f \in F \}$. Similar results are shown for minmax MOM estimators in a close setting where outliers may corrupt the dataset and where the class $\{ (f-f^*)(X), f \in F \}$ is only supposed to satisfy weak moment assumptions, relaxing the sub-Gaussian and the i.i.d hypothesis necessary for RERM. The analysis of RERM and minmax MOM estimators with Lipschitz and convex loss funtions is based on a weak local Bernstein Assumption. We obtain two "meta theorems" that we use to study linear estimators regularized by the Elastic Net. We also examine Support Vector Machines (SVM), where no sub-Gaussian assumption is required and when the target $Y$ can be heavy-tailed, improving the existing literature.

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arXiv2019

Statistical learning with Lipschitz and convex loss functions

We obtain risk bounds for Empirical Risk Minimizers (ERM) and minmax Median-Of-Means (MOM) estimators based on loss functions that are both Lipschitz and convex. Results for the ERM are derived without assumptions on the outputs and under subgaussian assumptions on the design and a new "local Bernstein assumption" on the class of predictors. Similar results are shown for minmax MOM estimators in a close setting where the design is only supposed to satisfy moment assumptions, relaxing the Subgaussian hypothesis necessary for ERM. The analysis of minmax MOM estimators is not based on the small ball assumption (SBA) as it was the case in the first analysis of minmax MOM estimators. In particular, the basic example of non parametric statistics where the learning class is the linear span of localized bases, that does not satisfy SBA can now be handled. Finally, minmax MOM estimators are analysed in a setting where the local Bernstein condition is also dropped out. It is shown to achieve an oracle inequality with exponentially large probability under minimal assumptions insuring the existence of all objects.

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