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Risk Bounds for Mixture Density Estimation on Compact Domains via the h-Lifted Kullback--Leibler Divergence
Mark Chiu Chong, Hien Duy Nguyen, TrungTin Nguyen
We consider the problem of estimating probability density functions based on sample data, using a finite mixture of densities from some component class. To this end, we introduce the h-lifted Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence as a generalization of the standard KL divergence and a criterion for conducting risk minimization. Under a compact support assumption, we prove an 𝒪(1/√(n)) bound on the expected estimation error when using the h-lifted KL divergence, which extends the results of Rakhlin et al. (2005, ESAIM: Probability and Statistics, Vol. 9) and Li and Barron (1999, Advances in Neural Information ProcessingSystems, Vol. 12) to permit the risk bounding of density functions that are not strictly positive. We develop a procedure for the computation of the corresponding maximum h-lifted likelihood estimators (h-MLLEs) using the Majorization-Maximization framework and provide experimental results in support of our theoretical bounds.
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