Classification with Minimax Fast Rates for Classes of Bayes Rules with Sparse Representation

We construct a classifier which attains the rate of convergence $\log n/n$ under sparsity and margin assumptions. An approach close to the one met in approximation theory for the estimation of function is used to obtain this result. The idea is to develop the Bayes rule in a fundamental system of $L^2([0,1]^d)$ made of indicator of dyadic sets and to assume that coefficients, equal to $-1,0 \mbox{ or } 1$, belong to a kind of $L^1-$ball. This assumption can be seen as a sparsity assumption, in the sense that the proportion of coefficients non equal to zero decreases as "frequency" grows. Finally, rates of convergence are obtained by using an usual trade-off between a bias term and a variance term.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00086510
Author Lecué, Guillaume
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 9, 2026, 15:34 (UTC)
Created May 9, 2026, 15:34 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00086510
Language en
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contributor Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (LPMA) ; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Lecué, Guillaume
date 2006-07-18T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2026-04-02T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/math.ST/0607439
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