TY - JOUR
T1 - Conditional Mean Estimation in Gaussian Noise
T2 - A Meta Derivative Identity With Applications
AU - Dytso, Alex
AU - Poor, H. Vincent
AU - Shamai Shitz, Shlomo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant CCF-1908308 and in part by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation under Grant BSF-2018710.
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PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - Consider a channel Y= X+ N where X is an n -dimensional random vector, and N is a multivariate Gaussian vector with a full-rank covariance matrix KN. The object under consideration in this paper is the conditional mean of X given Y=y , that is {E} XY=y. Several identities in the literature connect EXY=y to other quantities such as the conditional variance, score functions, and higher-order conditional moments. The objective of this paper is to provide a unifying view of these identities. In the first part of the paper, a general derivative identity for the conditional mean estimator is derived. Specifically, for the Markov chain U {X} {Y}, it is shown that the Jacobian matrix of {E}[{U}- {Y}=y is given by K {N}-1} {{Cov}} {X},{U}-{Y}=y where {Cov}} ({X},{U}- {Y}={y) is the conditional covariance. In the second part of the paper, via various choices of the random vector {U} , the new identity is used to recover and generalize many of the known identities and derive some new identities. First, a simple proof of the Hatsel and Nolte identity for the conditional variance is shown. Second, a simple proof of the recursive identity due to Jaffer is provided. The Jaffer identity is then further explored, and several equivalent statements are derived, such as an identity for the higher-order conditional expectation (i.e., {E}[{X/k}|{Y} ) in terms of the derivatives of the conditional expectation. Third, a new fundamental connection between the conditional cumulants and the conditional expectation is demonstrated. In particular, in the univariate case, it is shown that the k -th derivative of the conditional expectation is proportional to the (k+1) -th conditional cumulant. A similar expression is derived in the multivariate case.
AB - Consider a channel Y= X+ N where X is an n -dimensional random vector, and N is a multivariate Gaussian vector with a full-rank covariance matrix KN. The object under consideration in this paper is the conditional mean of X given Y=y , that is {E} XY=y. Several identities in the literature connect EXY=y to other quantities such as the conditional variance, score functions, and higher-order conditional moments. The objective of this paper is to provide a unifying view of these identities. In the first part of the paper, a general derivative identity for the conditional mean estimator is derived. Specifically, for the Markov chain U {X} {Y}, it is shown that the Jacobian matrix of {E}[{U}- {Y}=y is given by K {N}-1} {{Cov}} {X},{U}-{Y}=y where {Cov}} ({X},{U}- {Y}={y) is the conditional covariance. In the second part of the paper, via various choices of the random vector {U} , the new identity is used to recover and generalize many of the known identities and derive some new identities. First, a simple proof of the Hatsel and Nolte identity for the conditional variance is shown. Second, a simple proof of the recursive identity due to Jaffer is provided. The Jaffer identity is then further explored, and several equivalent statements are derived, such as an identity for the higher-order conditional expectation (i.e., {E}[{X/k}|{Y} ) in terms of the derivatives of the conditional expectation. Third, a new fundamental connection between the conditional cumulants and the conditional expectation is demonstrated. In particular, in the univariate case, it is shown that the k -th derivative of the conditional expectation is proportional to the (k+1) -th conditional cumulant. A similar expression is derived in the multivariate case.
KW - Vector Gaussian noise
KW - conditional cumulant
KW - conditional mean estimator
KW - minimum mean squared error
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U2 - 10.1109/TIT.2022.3216012
DO - 10.1109/TIT.2022.3216012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140790930
SN - 0018-9448
VL - 69
SP - 1883
EP - 1898
JO - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
JF - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IS - 3
ER -