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We study the fixed design segmented regression problem: Given noisy samples from a piecewise linear function $f$, we want to recover $f$ up to a desired accuracy in mean-squared error. Previous rigorous approaches for this problem rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Jayadev Acharya , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

Piecewise affine functions are widely used to approximate nonlinear and discontinuous functions. However, most, if not all existing models only deal with fitting continuous functions. In this paper, we investigate the problem of fitting a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Ruobing Shen , Bo Tang , Leo Liberti , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Stéphane Canu

We consider the inverse boundary value problem of determining a coefficient function in an elliptic partial differential equation from knowledge of the associated Neumann-Dirichlet-operator. The unknown coefficient function is assumed to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Bastian Harrach

In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. Statistical moments are used of the realizations of single point observation $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the representation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Chan Liu , Jin Wen , Zhidong Zhang

Recovering frequency-localized functions from pointwise data is a fundamental task in signal processing. We examine this problem from an approximation-theoretic perspective, focusing on least squares and deep learning-based methods. First,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 A. Martina Neuman , Andres Felipe Lerma Pineda , Jason J. Bramburger , Simone Brugiapaglia

We consider Sturm-Liouville problems with a discontinuity in an interior point, which are motivated by the inverse problems for the torsional modes of the Earth. We assume that the potential on the right half-interval and the coefficient in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Chuan-Fu Yang , Natalia Bondarenko

We derive an exact and efficient Bayesian regression algorithm for piecewise constant functions of unknown segment number, boundary location, and levels. It works for any noise and segment level prior, e.g. Cauchy which can handle outliers.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Marcus Hutter

D-finite functions and P-recursive sequences are defined in terms of linear differential and recurrence equations with polynomial coefficients. In this paper, we introduce a class of numbers closely related to D-finite functions and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Hui Huang , Manuel Kauers

There are many significant applied contexts that require the solution of discontinuous optimization problems in finite dimensions. Yet these problems are very difficult, both computationally and analytically. With the functions being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Ying Cui , Junyi Liu , Jong-Shi Pang

We study numerical methods for the solution of general linear moment problems, where the solution belongs to a family of nested subspaces of a Hilbert space. Multi-level algorithms, based on the conjugate gradient method and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Otmar Scherzer , Thomas Strohmer

Most stochastic gradient descent algorithms can optimize neural networks that are sub-differentiable in their parameters; however, this implies that the neural network's activation function must exhibit a degree of continuity which limits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Anastasis Kratsios , Behnoosh Zamanlooy

In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. The measurements used are the statistical moments of the realizations of single point data $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Shubin Fu , Zhidong Zhang

This paper presents exact Semi-Definite Program (SDP) reformulations for infinite-dimensional moment optimization problems involving a new class of piecewise Sum-of-Squares (SOS)-convex functions and projected spectrahedral support sets.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Queenie Yingkun Huang , Vaithilingam Jeyakumar , Guoyin Li

In this paper, we address the problem of reconstruction of support of a measure from its moments. More precisely, given a finite subset of the moments of a measure, we develop a semidefinite program for approximating the support of measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Ashkan Jasour , Constantino Lagoa

We classify all functions which, when applied term by term, leave invariant the sequences of moments of positive measures on the real line. Rather unexpectedly, these functions are built of absolutely monotonic components, or reflections of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Alexander Belton , Dominique Guillot , Apoorva Khare , Mihai Putinar

In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing piecewise smooth functions to high accuracy from nonuniform samples of their Fourier transform. We use the framework of nonuniform generalized sampling (NUGS) to do this, and to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Ben Adcock , Milana Gataric , Anders C. Hansen

In this paper we provide a rigorous mathematical foundation for continuous approximations of a class of systems with piece-wise continuous functions. By using techniques from the theory of differential inclusions, the underlying piece-wise…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-20 Marius-F. Danca

In this work, we consider an inverse potential problem in the parabolic equation, where the unknown potential is a space-dependent function and the used measurement is the final time data. The unknown potential in this inverse problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Mengmeng Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

Piecewise constant functions describe a variety of real-world phenomena in domains ranging from chemistry to manufacturing. In practice, it is often required to confidently identify the locations of the abrupt changes in these functions as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Joseph Lazzaro , Ciara Pike-Burke

The reconstruction of an unknown function $f$ from its line sums is the aim of discrete tomography. However, two main aspects prevent reconstruction from being an easy task. In general, many solutions are allowed due to the presence of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Matthew Ceko , Silvia M. C. Pagani , Rob Tijdeman