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We prove the curse of dimensionality in the worst case setting for numerical integration for a number of classes of smooth $d$-variate functions. Roughly speaking, we consider different bounds for the derivatives of $f \in C^k(D_d)$ and ask…
We study the $L_1$-approximation of $d$-variate monotone functions based on information from $n$ function evaluations. It is known that this problem suffers from the curse of dimensionality in the deterministic setting, that is, the number…
We prove the curse of dimensionality for multivariate integration of C^r functions: The number of needed function values to achieve an error \epsilon\ is larger than c_r (1+\gamma)^d for \epsilon\le \epsilon_0, where c_r,\gamma>0 and d is…
In this dissertation we study the tractability of the information-based complexity $n(\varepsilon,d)$ for $d$-variate function approximation problems. In the deterministic setting for many unweighted problems the curse of dimensionality…
The curse of dimensionality in the realm of association rules is twofold. Firstly, we have the well known exponential increase in computational complexity with increasing item set size. Secondly, there is a \emph{related curse} concerned…
High-dimensional computational challenges are frequently explained via the curse of dimensionality, i.e., increasing the number of dimensions leads to exponentially growing computational complexity. In this commentary, we argue that…
Integration is affected by the curse of dimensionality and quickly becomes intractable as the dimensionality of the problem grows. We propose a randomized algorithm that, with high probability, gives a constant-factor approximation of a…
This paper deals with the classical problem of density estimation on the real line. Most of the existing papers devoted to minimax properties assume that the support of the underlying density is bounded and known. But this assumption may be…
We prove the curse of dimensionality in the worst case setting for multivariate numerical integration for various classes of smooth functions. We prove the results when the domains are isotropic convex bodies with small diameter satisfying…
The characteristics of data like distribution and heterogeneity, become more complex and counterintuitive as dimensionality increases. This phenomenon is known as curse of dimensionality, where common patterns and relationships (e.g.,…
Real-world datasets are often of high dimension and effected by the curse of dimensionality. This hinders their comprehensibility and interpretability. To reduce the complexity feature selection aims to identify features that are crucial to…
We study the $L_{\infty}$-approximation of $d$-variate functions from Hilbert spaces via linear functionals as information. It is a common phenomenon in tractability studies that unweighted problems (with each dimension being equally…
We suggest that the curse of dimensionality affecting the similarity-based search in large datasets is a manifestation of the phenomenon of concentration of measure on high-dimensional structures. We prove that, under certain geometric…
In this work we study the validity of the so-called curse of dimensionality for indexing of databases for similarity search. We perform an asymptotic analysis, with a test model based on a sequence of metric spaces $(\Omega_d)$ from which…
Max-plus based methods have been recently developed to approximate the value function of possibly high dimensional optimal control problems. A critical step of these methods consists in approximating a function by a supremum of a small…
We study multivariate problems like function approximation, numerical integration, global optimization and dispersion. We obtain new results on the information complexity $n(\varepsilon,d)$ of these problems. The information complexity is…
The task of approximating a function of d variables from its evaluations at a given number of points is ubiquitous in numerical analysis and engineering applications. When d is large, this task is challenged by the so-called curse of…
We offer a theoretical validation of the curse of dimensionality in the pivot-based indexing of datasets for similarity search, by proving, in the framework of statistical learning, that in high dimensions no pivot-based indexing scheme can…
It is one of the most challenging issues in applied mathematics to approximately solve high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) and most of the numerical approximation methods for PDEs in the scientific literature suffer from…
Approximating a convex function by a polyhedral function that has a limited number of facets is a fundamental problem with applications in various fields, from mitigating the curse of dimensionality in optimal control to bi-level…