Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 205 1 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
With the usual objectivethe Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions for the Lasso areComparing the objective at and , expanding the square, and cancelling the noise norm gives exactly
Choose . Since every column has norm , each is sub-Gaussian with parameter . A union bound givesOn the complementary event, Holder inequality and the triangle inequality bound the preceding right-hand side bywhich proves the stated prediction bound.
For the Dantzig selector, use the constraint . The Lasso KKT conditions make feasible, so a Dantzig minimizer has no larger norm. If were not the Lasso solution, uniqueness from invertibility of would imply that some active coordinate has strict signed KKT slack. For small , setOnly score coordinate changes, toward its feasible boundary, so remains feasible. For small , signs on the active coordinates do not change, andby strict diagonal dominance. This contradicts Dantzig optimality, so the two estimators coincide.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 210 1 d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A centered random variable is sub-Gaussian with variance parameter whenThe Chernoff bound, applied to and , yieldsThe tail integral formula for moments and the substitution now give