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The accuracy and effectiveness of Hermite spectral methods for the numerical discretization of partial differential equations on unbounded domains, are strongly affected by the amplitude of the Gaussian weight function employed to describe…
It is well-known that non-linear approximation has an advantage over linear schemes in the sense that it provides comparable approximation rates to those of the linear schemes, but to a larger class of approximands. This was established for…
A new method for approximating fractional derivatives of the Gaussian function and Dawson's integral are presented. Unlike previous approaches, which are dominantly based on some discretization of Riemann-Liouville integral using polynomial…
Approximative properties of the Taylor-Abel-Poisson linear summation me\-thod of Fourier series are considered for functions of several variables, periodic with respect to the hexagonal domain, in the integral metric. In particular, direct…
Asymptotic approximations to the zeros of Hermite and Laguerre polynomials are given, together with methods for obtaining the coefficients in the expansions. These approximations can be used as a standalone method of computation of Gaussian…
Laplace's method approximates a target density with a Gaussian distribution at its mode. It is computationally efficient and asymptotically exact for Bayesian inference due to the Bernstein-von Mises theorem, but for complex targets and…
Assuming that a function and its Fourier transform are dominated by Gaussians, a sharp estimate for the rate of exponential decay of its Hermite coefficients is obtained in terms of the variances of the dominating Gaussians.
This paper studies numerical methods for the approximation of elliptic PDEs with lognormal coefficients of the form $-{\rm div}(a\nabla u)=f$ where $a=\exp(b)$ and $b$ is a Gaussian random field. The approximant of the solution $u$ is an…
We consider the compressive sensing of a sparse or compressible signal ${\bf x} \in {\mathbb R}^M$. We explicitly construct a class of measurement matrices, referred to as the low density frames, and develop decoding algorithms that produce…
Many applications of Gaussian random fields and Gaussian random processes are limited by the computational complexity of evaluating the probability density function, which involves inverting the relevant covariance matrix. In this work, we…
Low-rank tensor approximations have shown great potential for uncertainty quantification in high dimensions, for example, to build surrogate models that can be used to speed up large-scale inference problems (Eigel et al., Inverse Problems…
Methods for the computation of classical Gaussian quadrature rules are described which are effective both for small and large degree. These methods are reliable because the iterative computation of the nodes has guaranteed convergence, and…
We derive a simple and precise approximation to probability density functions in sampling distributions based on the Fourier cosine series. After clarifying the required conditions, we illustrate the approximation on two examples: the…
Motivated by the orthogonal series density estimation in $L^2([0,1],\mu)$, in this project we consider a new class of functions that we call the approximate sparsity class. This new class is characterized by the rate of decay of the…
We calculate the least upper bounds of pointwise and uniform approximations for classes of $2\pi$-periodic functions expressible as convolutions of an arbitrary square summable kernel with functions, which belong to the unit ball of the…
In this paper, we develop a continual analog of decomposition over orthogonal bases in spaces generated by equidistant shifts of a single function. By doing so, we obtain an explicit expression for best approximation by spaces of shifts in…
Approximating complex probability distributions, such as Bayesian posterior distributions, is of central interest in many applications. We study the expressivity of geometric Gaussian approximations. These consist of approximations by…
The frozen Gaussian approximation provides a highly efficient computational method for high frequency wave propagation. The derivation of the method is based on asymptotic analysis. In this paper, for general linear strictly hyperbolic…
In this paper we show that a methodology based on a sampling with the Gaussian function of kind $h\,{e^{ - {{\left( {t/c} \right)}^2}}}/\left( {{c}\sqrt \pi } \right)$, where ${c}$ and $h$ are some constants, leads to the Fourier transform…
Many developments in Mathematics involve the computation of higher order derivatives of Gaussian density functions. The analysis of univariate Gaussian random variables is a well-established field whereas the analysis of their multivariate…