Principal component regression dominates monotone spectral filters

The authors prove finite-sample risk guarantees placing optimally tuned PCR within a constant factor of every monotone spectral filter, with polynomial advantages on some problems.

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Juno Kim · Hengyu Fu · Peter Bartlett · Jason D. Lee · Jingfeng Wu

University of California, Berkeley · Google DeepMind

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Kim et al.

The authors study monotone spectral filters, estimators that regularize regression by applying a monotone weighting rule to directions associated with different covariance eigenvalues.

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Principal component regression dominates all monotone spectral filters for linear regression.

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