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Statistical Inference for Model Parameters in Stochastic Gradient Descent via Batch Means

Yi Zhu, Jing Dong

Published 2019-11-04Version 1

Statistical inference of true model parameters based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has started receiving attention in recent years. In this paper, we study a simple algorithm to construct asymptotically valid confidence regions for model parameters using the batch means method. The main idea is to cancel out the covariance matrix which is hard/costly to estimate. In the process of developing the algorithm, we establish process-level function central limit theorem for Polyak-Ruppert averaging based SGD estimators. We also extend the batch means method to accommodate more general batch size specifications.

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