math.ST, stat.ME, stat.ML, stat.TH

The Conjugate Domain Dichotomy: Exact Risk of M-Estimators under Infinite-Variance Noise in High Dimensions

arXiv:2603.28359v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This paper studies high-dimensional M-estimation in the proportional asymptotic regime (p/n -> gamma > 0) when the noise distribution has infinite variance. For noise with regularly-varying tails of in…