Distribution-Free Distribution Regression

Abstract

‘Distribution regression’ refers to the situation where a response Y depends on a covariate P where P is a probability distribution. The model is Y = f(P ) + where f is an unknown regression function and is a random error. Typically, we do not observe P directly, but rather, we observe a sample from P . In this paper we develop theory and methods for distribution-free versions of distribution regression. This means that we do not make strong distributional assumptions about the error term and covariate P . We prove that when the eective dimension is small enough (as measured by the doubling dimension), then the excess prediction risk converges to zero with a polynomial rate.

Cite

Text

Póczos et al. "Distribution-Free Distribution Regression." International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2013.

Markdown

[Póczos et al. "Distribution-Free Distribution Regression." International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2013.](https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2013/poczos2013aistats-distribution/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{poczos2013aistats-distribution,
  title     = {{Distribution-Free Distribution Regression}},
  author    = {Póczos, Barnabás and Singh, Aarti and Rinaldo, Alessandro and Wasserman, Larry A.},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  year      = {2013},
  pages     = {507-515},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2013/poczos2013aistats-distribution/}
}