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Scott Kostyshak

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Learning theory · 100%
Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Information theory · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Learning theory › statistical estimation › confidence set construction
confidence intervals
0.512021
Shape-Enforcing Operators for Generic Point and Interval Estimators of Functions · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2021
Machine learning › Learning theory
statistical estimation
0.512021
Shape-Enforcing Operators for Generic Point and Interval Estimators of Functions · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2021
Information theory › estimation theory › nonparametric estimation
shape-constrained estimation
0.512021
Shape-Enforcing Operators for Generic Point and Interval Estimators of Functions · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2021

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

nonparametric estimation · 1.0functional operators · 1.0bayesian credible regions · 1.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2021 Shape-Enforcing Operators for Generic Point and Interval Estimators of Functions
abstract
A common problem in econometrics, statistics, and machine learning is to estimate and make inference on functions that satisfy shape restrictions. For example, distribution functions are nondecreasing and range between zero and one, height growth charts are nondecreasing in age, and production functions are nondecreasing and quasi-concave in input quantities. We propose a method to enforce these restrictions ex post on generic unconstrained point and interval estimates of the target function by applying functional operators. The interval estimates could be either frequentist confidence bands or Bayesian credible regions. If an operator has reshaping, invariance, order-preserving, and distance-reducing properties, the shape-enforced point estimates are closer to the target function than the original point estimates and the shape-enforced interval estimates have greater coverage and shorter length than the original interval estimates. We show that these properties hold for six different operators that cover commonly used shape restrictions in practice: range, convexity, monotonicity, monotone convexity, quasi-convexity, and monotone quasi-convexity, with the latter two restrictions being of paramount importance. The main attractive property of the post-processing approach is that it works in conjunction with any generic initial point or interval estimate, obtained using any of parametric, semi-parametric or nonparametric learning methods, including recent methods that are able to exploit either smoothness, sparsity, or other forms of structured parsimony of target functions. The post-processed point and interval estimates automatically inherit and provably improve these properties in finite samples, while also enforcing qualitative shape restrictions brought by scientific reasoning. We illustrate the results with two empirical applications to the estimation of a height growth chart for infants in India and a production function for chemical firms in China.
Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, Scott Kostyshak, Ye Luo 0004
J. Mach. Learn. Res.4