Mismatched binary hypothesis testing: error exponent sensitivity

We study the problem of mismatched binary hypothesis testing between i.i.d. distributions. We analyze the tradeoff between the pairwise error probability exponents when the actual distributions generating the observation are different from the distributions used in the likelihood ratio test, sequent...

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Autores: Boroumand, Parham, Guillén i Fábregas, A. (Albert)
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Data de publicação:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositório:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/55587
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2022.3171438
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Hypothesis testing
Mismatch
Likelihood ratio test
Generalized likelihood ratio test
Sequenstial probability ratio test
Descrição
Resumo:We study the problem of mismatched binary hypothesis testing between i.i.d. distributions. We analyze the tradeoff between the pairwise error probability exponents when the actual distributions generating the observation are different from the distributions used in the likelihood ratio test, sequential probability ratio test, and Hoeffding’s generalized likelihood ratio test in the composite setting. When the real distributions are within a small divergence ball of the test distributions, we find the deviation of the worst-case error exponent of each test with respect to the matched error exponent. In addition, we consider the case where an adversary tampers with the observation, again within a divergence ball of the observation type. We show that the tests are more sensitive to distribution mismatch than to adversarial observation tampering.