Large Deviation Analysis of Score-based Hypothesis Testing

Abstract: Score-based statistical models play an important role in modern machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. For hypothesis testing, a score-based hypothesis test is proposed in \cite{wu2022score}. We analyze the performance of this score-based hypothesis testing procedure and derive upper bounds on the probabilities of its Type I and II errors. We prove that the exponents of our error bounds are asymptotically (in the number of samples) tight for the case of simple null and alternative hypotheses. We calculate these error exponents explicitly in specific cases and provide numerical studies for various other scenarios of interest.