Regularized Variational and Spectral Log-Density-Ratio Estimation in the Gaussian Location Model
arXiv:2607.01895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study ridge-regularized log-density-ratio estimation in the Gaussian location model with a common covariance matrix. By affine invariance, the model is written as q $\sim$ N(0, I), p $\sim$ N($\Delta$, I), with linear features, where $\Delta$ is a mean vector. The variational estimator is the empirical Kullback-Leibler (KL) log-normalized fit with a squared L2-penalty on its nonconstant coefficient, and the spectral estimator recently introduced in [1] replaces a single variational problem by a continuum of ridge-regularized least-squares prob
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