Overfitting Can Be Harmless for Basis Pursuit, But Only to a Degree

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00492v2
• Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 23:29:36 GMT
• Title: Overfitting Can Be Harmless for Basis Pursuit, But Only to a Degree
• Authors: Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin, Jia Liu
• Abstract summary: We study the overfitting solution that minimizes the $ell$-norm, known as Basis Pursuit (BP) in the compressed sensing literature. We show that for a large range of $p$ up to a limit that grows exponentially with the number of samples $n$, with high probability the model error of BP is upper bounded by a value that decreases with $p$.
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• Abstract: Recently, there have been significant interests in studying the so-called "double-descent" of the generalization error of linear regression models under the overparameterized and overfitting regime, with the hope that such analysis may provide the first step towards understanding why overparameterized deep neural networks (DNN) still generalize well. However, to date most of these studies focused on the min $\ell_2$-norm solution that overfits the data. In contrast, in this paper we study the overfitting solution that minimizes the $\ell_1$-norm, which is known as Basis Pursuit (BP) in the compressed sensing literature. Under a sparse true linear regression model with $p$ i.i.d. Gaussian features, we show that for a large range of $p$ up to a limit that grows exponentially with the number of samples $n$, with high probability the model error of BP is upper bounded by a value that decreases with $p$. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first analytical result in the literature establishing the double-descent of overfitting BP for finite $n$ and $p$. Further, our results reveal significant differences between the double-descent of BP and min $\ell_2$-norm solutions. Specifically, the double-descent upper-bound of BP is independent of the signal strength, and for high SNR and sparse models the descent-floor of BP can be much lower and wider than that of min $\ell_2$-norm solutions.

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