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In this paper, we discuss the problem of minimizing the sum of two convex functions: a smooth function plus a non-smooth function. Further, the smooth part can be expressed by the average of a large number of smooth component functions, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luo Luo , Zihao Chen , Zhihua Zhang , Wu-Jun Li

We introduce appropriate computable moduli of smoothness to characterize the rate of best approximation by multivariate polynomials on a connected and compact $C^2$-domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$. This new modulus of smoothness is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Feng Dai , Andriy Prymak

We present an approximation theorem for continuous non-decreasing functions on compact preordered spaces, leading to an algebraic characterization of their corresponding function spaces. As an application, we prove that the family of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Ettore Minguzzi

We propose novel smooth approximations to the classical rounding function, suitable for differentiable optimization and machine learning applications. Our constructions are based on two approaches: (1) localized sigmoid window functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Stanislav Semenov

Present work contains a method to obtain Jackson and Stechkin type inequalities of approximation by integral functions of finite degree (IFFD) in some variable exponent Lebesgue space of real functions defined on $\boldsymbol{R}:=\left(…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Ramazan Akgün

The relative performance of competing point forecasts is usually measured in terms of loss or scoring functions. It is widely accepted that these scoring function should be strictly consistent in the sense that the expected score is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Tobias Fissler , Johanna F. Ziegel

In the present paper we introduce the notion of harmonicity modulus and harmonicity K-functional and apply these notions to prove a Jackson type theorem for approximation of continuous functions by polyharmonic functions. For corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-28 Ognyan Kounchev

We prove two theorems about differentiable functions on the Banach space C(K), where K is compact. (i) If C(K) admits a non-trivial function of class C^m and of bounded support, then all continuous real-valued functions on C(K) may be…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Petr Hajek , Richard Haydon

This paper demonstrates that the space of piecewise smooth functions can be well approximated by the space of functions defined by a set of simple (non-linear) operations on smooth uniform splines. The examples include bivariate functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-13 David Levin

We introduce the notion of approximate smoothness in a normed linear space. We characterize this property and show the connections between smoothness and approximate smoothness for some spaces. As an application, we consider in particular…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Jacek Chmieliński , Divya Khurana , Debmalya Sain

We establish inverse and direct theorems on best approximations in quasi-normed Abelian groups through bilateral Bernstein-Jackson inequalities with exact constants. Using integral representations for quasi-norms of functions $f$ in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Oleh Lopushansky

We present a de Bruijn type approximation for quantifying the content of m smooth numbers, derived from samples obtained through a probability measure over the set of integers less than or equal to n, with point mass function at k inversely…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Arturo Jaramillo , Xiaochuan Yang

In this paper, we study the form of the constant $C$ in the Bernstein--Nikolskii inequalities $\|f^{(s)}\|_q \lesssim C(s, p, q)\left\|f\right\|_p,\,0<p<q \leq\infty$, for trigonometric polynomials and entire functions of exponential type.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Michael I Ganzburg , Miquel Saucedo , Sergey Tikhonov

We consider the approximation of a continuous function, defined on a compact set of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, by sums of two ridge functions. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for such a sum to be a best…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Vugar Ismailov

In this paper we deal with improvement of Jensen, Jensen-Steffensen's and Jensen's functionals related inequalities for uniformly convex, phi-convex and superquadratic functions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Shoshana Abramovich

For a Banach space $B$ of functions which satisfies for some $m>0$ $$ \max(\|F+G\|_B,\|F-G\|_B) \ge (\|F\|^s_B + m\|G\|^s_B)^{1/s}, \forall F,G\in B \ (*) $$ a significant improvement for lower estimates of the moduli of smoothness…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Zeev Ditzian , Andriy Prymak

In this paper we solve the problem of approximating functionals $(\varphi(A)x, f)$ (where $\varphi(A)$ is some function of self-adjoint operator $A$) on the class of elements of a Hilbert space that is defined with the help of another…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Vladyslav Babenko , Yuliya Babenko , Nadiia Kriachko

This is a handbook of simple proofs of the convergence of gradient and stochastic gradient descent type methods. We consider functions that are Lipschitz, smooth, convex, strongly convex, and/or Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz functions. Our focus is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Guillaume Garrigos , Robert M. Gower

We prove invariance theorems for general inequalities of different metrics and apply them to limit relations between the sharp constants in the multivariate Markov-Bernstein-Nikolskii type inequalities with the polyharmonic operator for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Michael I. Ganzburg

Exact equations are derived that relate velocity structure functions of arbitrary order with other statistics. "Exact" means that no approximations are used except that the Navier-Stokes equation and incompressibility condition are assumed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-21 Reginald J. Hill