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For the Poisson model, the prototypical examples are the celebrated Robbins estimator and the nonparametric MLE (NPMLE), respectively. It has long been recognized in practice that the Robbins estimator, while being conceptually appealing and computationally simple, lacks robustness and can be easily derailed by \u201coutliers\u201d (data points that were rarely observed before), unlike the NPMLE which provides more stable and interpretable fit thanks to its Bayes form. On the other hand, not only do the existing theories shed little light on this phenomenon, but they all point to the opposite, as both methods have recently been shown optimal in terms of the regret (excess over the Bayes risk) for compactly supported and subexponential priors with exact logarithmic factors (Brown, Greenshtein and Ritov (2013) J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 108 741\u2013749; Polyanskiy and Wu (2021) arXiv:2008.08244). In this paper we provide a theoretical justification for the superiority of g-modeling over f-modeling for heavy-tailed data by considering priors with bounded pth moment, a class previously studied for the Gaussian model (Jiang and Zhang (2009) Ann. Statist. 37 1647\u20131684). For the Poisson model with sample size n, assuming p&gt;1 (for otherwise triviality arises), we show that with mild regularization, any g-modeling method that is Hellinger rate-optimal in density estimation achieves a total regret \u0398\u02dc(n 32p+1), which is minimax optimal within logarithmic factors; in particular, the special case of NPMLE succeeds without regularization. In constrast, there exists an f-modeling estimator whose density estimation rate is optimal but whose EB regret is suboptimal by a polynomial factor. These results show that the proper Bayes form provides a \u201cgeneral recipe of success\u201d for optimal EB estimation that applies to all g-modeling (but not f-modeling) methods. As by-products of our analysis, we also obtain: (a) the minimax Hellinger rate of estimating Poisson mixture over the moment class, (b) the characterization of the regret suboptimality of the Robbins estimator, (c) an extension to the compound setting.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1214\/25-aos2560","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,4]],"date-time":"2026-03-04T06:28:22Z","timestamp":1772605702000},"page":"146-175","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Poisson empirical Bayes estimation: When does g-modeling beat f-modeling in theory (and in practice)?"],"prefix":"10.1214","volume":"54","author":[{"given":"Yandi","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yihong","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"108","reference":[{"key":"15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"<small>Genovese, C. 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