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In this paper we study Tikhonov regularization for the stable solution of an ill-posed non-linear operator equation. The operator we consider, which is related to an active contour model for image segmentation, is continuous, compact, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Markus Grasmair

In the multidimensional setting, we consider the errors-in-variables model. We aim at estimating the unknown nonparametric multivariate regression function with errors in the covariates. We devise an adaptive estimator based on projection…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Michaël Chichignoud , Van Ha Hoang , Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc , Vincent Rivoirard

With regard to a three-step estimation procedure, proposed without theoretical discussion by Li and You in Journal of Applied Statistics and Management, for a nonparametric regression model with time-varying regression function, local…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Jiyanglin Li , Tao Li

The Bayesian approach to inverse problems is widely used in practice to infer unknown parameters from noisy observations. In this framework, the ensemble Kalman inversion has been successfully applied for the quantification of uncertainties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Neil K. Chada , Claudia Schillings , Simon Weissmann

We address the inverse problem of cosmic large-scale structure reconstruction from a Bayesian perspective. For a linear data model, a number of known and novel reconstruction schemes, which differ in terms of the underlying signal prior,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. S. Kitaura , T. A. Ensslin

We study the problem of learning a directed acyclic graph from data generated according to an additive, non-linear structural equation model with Gaussian noise. We express each non-linear function through a basis expansion, and derive a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-27 Xiaozhu Zhang , Nir Keret , Ali Shojaie , Armeen Taeb

This paper studies sparse covariance operator estimation for nonstationary processes with sharply varying marginal variance and small correlation lengthscale. We introduce a covariance operator estimator that adaptively thresholds the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Omar Al-Ghattas , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

The Inverse Problem for the estimation of a point-wise approximation error occurring at the discretization and solving of the system of partial differential equations is addressed. The set of the differences between the numerical solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Aleksey Alekseev , Alexander Bondarev

We study the performances of an adaptive procedure based on a convex combination, with data-driven weights, of term-by-term thresholded wavelet estimators. For the bounded regression model, with random uniform design, and the nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Christophe Chesneau , Guillaume Lecué

The effectiveness of using model sparsity as a priori information when solving linear inverse problems is studied. We investigate the reconstruction quality of such a method in the non-idealized case and compute some typical recovery errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Ignace Loris , Caroline Verhoeven

Complementarity problems and variational inequalities arise in a wide variety of areas, including machine learning, planning, game theory, and physical simulation. In all of these areas, to handle large-scale problem instances, we need fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Geoffrey J. Gordon

Numerically obtaining the inverse of a function is a common task for many scientific problems, often solved using a Newton iteration method. Here we describe an alternative scheme, based on switching variables followed by spline…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Daniele Tommasini , David N. Olivieri

We adress the problem of Laplace deconvolution with random noise in a regression framework. The time set is not considered to be fixed, but grows with the number of observation points. Moreover, the convolution kernel is unknown, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-05 Thomas Vareschi

A method for estimating nonlinear regression errors and their distributions without performing regression is presented. Assuming continuity of the modeling function the variance is given in terms of conditional probabilities extracted from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-15 Hong Pi , Carsten Peterson

Operator learning offers a robust framework for approximating mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. It has also become a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in the computational sciences. This chapter surveys…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Nicholas H. Nelsen , Yunan Yang

We propose an estimation procedure for linear functionals based on Gaussian model selection techniques. We show that the procedure is adaptive, and we give a non asymptotic oracle inequality for the risk of the selected estimator with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-27 Béatrice Laurent , Carenne Ludeña , Clémentine Prieur

Statistical dependencies among wavelet coefficients are commonly represented by graphical models such as hidden Markov trees(HMTs). However, in linear inverse problems such as deconvolution, tomography, and compressed sensing, the presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Nikhil S Rao , Robert D. Nowak , Stephen J. Wright , Nick G. Kingsbury

We consider ill-posed inverse problems where the forward operator $T$ is unknown, and instead we have access to training data consisting of functions $f_i$ and their noisy images $Tf_i$. This is a practically relevant and challenging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-21 Miguel del Alamo

In this article, a weak Galerkin method is firstly presented and analyzed for the quasi-linear elliptic problem of non-monotone type. By using Brouwer's fixed point technique, the existence of WG solution and error estimates in both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Peng Zhu , Shenglan Xie

Motivated by recent work on stochastic gradient descent methods, we develop two stochastic variants of greedy algorithms for possibly non-convex optimization problems with sparsity constraints. We prove linear convergence in expectation to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Nam Nguyen , Deanna Needell , Tina Woolf