TY - JOUR A1 - Carpentier, Alexandra A1 - Klopp, Olga A1 - Löffler, Matthias A1 - Nickl, Richard T1 - Adaptive confidence sets for matrix completion JF - Bernoulli : official journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability N2 - In the present paper, we study the problem of existence of honest and adaptive confidence sets for matrix completion. We consider two statistical models: the trace regression model and the Bernoulli model. In the trace regression model, we show that honest confidence sets that adapt to the unknown rank of the matrix exist even when the error variance is unknown. Contrary to this, we prove that in the Bernoulli model, honest and adaptive confidence sets exist only when the error variance is known a priori. In the course of our proofs, we obtain bounds for the minimax rates of certain composite hypothesis testing problems arising in low rank inference. KW - adaptivity KW - confidence sets KW - low rank recovery KW - matrix completion KW - minimax hypothesis testing KW - unknown variance Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3150/17-BEJ933 SN - 1350-7265 SN - 1573-9759 VL - 24 IS - 4A SP - 2429 EP - 2460 PB - International Statistical Institute CY - Voorburg ER -