Valid post-selection and post-regularization inference: An elementary, general approach

V Chernozhukov, C Hansen, M Spindler - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2015 - annualreviews.org
We present an expository, general analysis of valid post-selection or post-regularization
inference about a low-dimensional target parameter in the presence of a very high …

A critical review of LASSO and its derivatives for variable selection under dependence among covariates

L Freijeiro‐González, M Febrero‐Bande… - International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The limitations of the well‐known LASSO regression as a variable selector are tested when
there exists dependence structures among covariates. We analyse both the classic situation …

Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades

A Stechemesser, N Koch, E Mark, E Dilger, P Klösel… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Meeting the Paris Agreement's climate targets necessitates better knowledge about which
climate policies work in reducing emissions at the necessary scale. We provide a global …

[PDF][PDF] The computational limits of deep learning

NC Thompson, K Greenewald, K Lee… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - assets.pubpub.org
Deep learning's recent history has been one of achievement: from triumphing over humans
in the game of Go to world-leading performance in image classification, voice recognition …

Empirical asset pricing via machine learning

S Gu, B Kelly, D **u - The Review of Financial Studies, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We perform a comparative analysis of machine learning methods for the canonical problem
of empirical asset pricing: measuring asset risk premiums. We demonstrate large economic …

Taming the factor zoo: A test of new factors

G Feng, S Giglio, D **u - The Journal of Finance, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a model selection method to systematically evaluate the contribution to asset
pricing of any new factor, above and beyond what a high‐dimensional set of existing factors …

Approximate residual balancing: debiased inference of average treatment effects in high dimensions

S Athey, GW Imbens, S Wager - Journal of the Royal Statistical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
There are many settings where researchers are interested in estimating average treatment
effects and are willing to rely on the unconfoundedness assumption, which requires that the …

On asymptotically optimal confidence regions and tests for high-dimensional models

S Van de Geer, P Bühlmann, Y Ritov, R Dezeure - 2014 - projecteuclid.org
On asymptotically optimal confidence regions and tests for high-dimensional models Page 1
The Annals of Statistics 2014, Vol. 42, No. 3, 1166–1202 DOI: 10.1214/14-AOS1221 © Institute …

Inference on treatment effects after selection among high-dimensional controls

A Belloni, V Chernozhukov… - Review of Economic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We propose robust methods for inference about the effect of a treatment variable on a scalar
outcome in the presence of very many regressors in a model with possibly non-Gaussian …

Regularization: A Thresholding Representation Theory and a Fast Solver

Z Xu, X Chang, F Xu, H Zhang - IEEE Transactions on neural …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The special importance of L 1/2 regularization has been recognized in recent studies on
sparse modeling (particularly on compressed sensing). The L 1/2 regularization, however …