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A scalable estimate of the extra-sample prediction error via approximate leave-one-out
Kamiar Rahnama Rad, Arian Maleki
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The paper considers the problem of out-of-sample risk estimation under the high dimensional settings where standard techniques such as K-fold cross validation suffer from large biases. Motivated by the low bias of the leave-one-out cross validation (LO) method, we propose a computationally efficient closed-form approximate leave-one-out formula (ALO) for a large class of regularized estimators. Given the regularized estimate, calculating ALO requires minor computational overhead. With minor assumptions about the data generating process, we obtain a finite-sample upper bound for |LO - ALO|. Our theoretical analysis illustrates that |LO - ALO| →0 with overwhelming probability, when n,p →∞, where the dimension p of the feature vectors may be comparable with or even greater than the number of observations, n. Despite the high-dimensionality of the problem, our theoretical results do not require any sparsity assumption on the vector of regression coefficients. Our extensive numerical experiments show that |LO - ALO| decreases as n,p increase, revealing the excellent finite sample performance of ALO. We further illustrate the usefulness of our proposed out-of-sample risk estimation method by an example of real recordings from spatially sensitive neurons (grid cells) in the medial entorhinal cortex of a rat.
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