Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster

On Empirical Risk Minimization with Dependent and Heavy-Tailed Data

Abhishek Roy · Krishnakumar Balasubramanian · Murat Erdogdu

Keywords: [ Theory ]


Abstract: In this work, we establish risk bounds for Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) with both dependent and heavy-tailed data-generating processes. We do so by extending the seminal works~\cite{pmlr-v35-mendelson14, mendelson2018learning} on the analysis of ERM with heavy-tailed but independent and identically distributed observations, to the strictly stationary exponentially $\beta$-mixing case. We allow for the interaction between the noise and inputs to be even polynomially heavy-tailed, which covers a significantly large class of heavy-tailed models beyond what is analyzed in the learning theory literature. We illustrate our theoretical results by obtaining rates of convergence for high-dimensional linear regression with dependent and heavy-tailed data.

Chat is not available.