Abstract
We study the detection of a sparse change in a high-dimensional mean vector as a minimax testing problem. Our first main contribution is to derive the exact minimax testing rate across all parameter regimes for n independent, p-variate Gaussian observations. This rate exhibits a phase transition when the sparsity level is of order and has a very delicate dependence on the sample size: in a certain sparsity regime, it involves a triple iterated logarithmic factor in n. Further, in a dense asymptotic regime, we identify the sharp leading constant, while in the corresponding sparse asymptotic regime, this constant is determined to within a factor of . Extensions that cover spatial and temporal dependence, primarily in the dense case, are also provided.
Citation
Haoyang Liu. Chao Gao. Richard J. Samworth. "Minimax rates in sparse, high-dimensional change point detection." Ann. Statist. 49 (2) 1081 - 1112, April 2021. https://doi.org/10.1214/20-AOS1994
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