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This paper describes a recursive estimation procedure for multivariate binary densities (probability distributions of vectors of Bernoulli random variables) using orthogonal expansions. For $d$ covariates, there are $2^d$ basis coefficients…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Maxim Raginsky , Jorge Silva , Svetlana Lazebnik , Rebecca Willett

Probabilistic Manifold Decomposition (PMD)\cite{doi:10.1137/25M1738863}, developed in our earlier work, provides a nonlinear model reduction by embedding high-dimensional dynamics onto low-dimensional probabilistic manifolds. The PMD has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jiaming Guo , Dunhui Xiao

Let $\Omega \Subset \mathbb R^n$, $f \in C^1(\mathbb R^{N\times n})$ and $g\in C^1(\mathbb R^N)$, where $N,n \in \mathbb N$. We study the minimisation problem of finding $u \in W^{1,\infty}_0(\Omega;\mathbb R^N)$ that satisfies \[ \big\|…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Nikos Katzourakis

We propose a reconstruction-based a posteriori error estimate for linear advection problems in one space dimension. In our framework, a stable variational ultra-weak formulation is adopted, and the equivalence of the $L_2$-norm of the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Alexandre Ern , Martin Vohralík , Mohammad Zakerzadeh

Let $G$ be a bounded open subset of Euclidean space with real algebraic boundary $\Gamma$. Under the assumption that the degree $d$ of $\Gamma$ is given, and the power moments of the Lebesgue measure on $G$ are known up to order $3d$, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Mihai Putinar

We present a classical algorithm that, for any 3D geometrically-local, polylogarithmic-depth quantum circuit $C$ acting on $n$ qubits, and any bit string $x\in\{0,1\}^n$, can compute the quantity $|< x |C|0^{\otimes n}>|^2$ to within any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Nolan J. Coble , Matthew Coudron

A numerically efficient inverse method for parametric model uncertainty identification using maximum likelihood estimation is presented. The goal is to identify a probability model for a fixed number of model parameters based on a set of…

We describe methods for proving bounds on infinite-time averages in differential dynamical systems. The methods rely on the construction of nonnegative polynomials with certain properties, similarly to the way nonlinear stability can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-25 David Goluskin

In this paper, we introduce a method known as polynomial frame approximation for approximating smooth, multivariate functions defined on irregular domains in $d$ dimensions, where $d$ can be arbitrary. This method is simple, and relies only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Ben Adcock , Daan Huybrechs

We study the problem of approximating an unknown function $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ by a degree-$d$ polynomial using as few function evaluations as possible, where error is measured with respect to a probability distribution $\mu$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chris Camaño , Raphael A. Meyer , Kevin Shu

In this paper, we propose projected gradient descent (PGD) algorithms for signal estimation from noisy nonlinear measurements. We assume that the unknown $p$-dimensional signal lies near the range of an $L$-Lipschitz continuous generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-22 Zhaoqiang Liu , Jun Han

Let $w_{\lambda}(t)=(1-t^2)^{\lambda-1/2}$, $\lambda>-1/2$, be the Gegenbauer weight function, and $\Vert\cdot\Vert$ denote the associated $L_2$-norm, i.e., $$ \Vert f\Vert:=\Big(\int_{-1}^{1}w_{\lambda}(t)\vert f(t)\vert^2\,dt\Big)^{1/2}.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Alexei Shadrin , Geno Nikolov , Dragomir Aleksov

We define a stochastic variant of the proximal point algorithm in the general setting of nonlinear (separable) Hadamard spaces for approximating zeros of the mean of a stochastically perturbed monotone vector field and prove its convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Nicholas Pischke

We study estimation of a multivariate function $f:\mathbf{R}^d\to\mathbf{R}$ when the observations are available from the function $Af$, where $A$ is a known linear operator. Both the Gaussian white noise model and density estimation are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Jussi Klemelä , Enno Mammen

We consider the problem of the maximum concentration in a fixed measurable subset $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{2d}$ of the time-frequency space for functions $f\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^{d})$. The notion of concentration can be made mathematically…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Fabio Nicola , José Luis Romero , S. Ivan Trapasso

Let P be a set of points in R^d, and let M be a function that maps any subset of P to a positive real number. We examine the problem of computing the exact mean and variance of M when a subset of points in P is selected according to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Frank Staals , Constantinos Tsirogiannis

Using measure theoretic arguments, we provide a general framework for describing and studying the general linear inverse dispersion problem where no a priori assumptions on the source function has been made. We investigate the source-sensor…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Niklas Brännström , Leif Å Persson

Consider estimating a structured signal $\mathbf{x}_0$ from linear, underdetermined and noisy measurements $\mathbf{y}=\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}_0+\mathbf{z}$, via solving a variant of the lasso algorithm: $\hat{\mathbf{x}}=\arg\min_\mathbf{x}\{…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Christos Thrampoulidis , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

We construct least squares formulations of PDEs with inhomogeneous essential boundary conditions, where boundary residuals are not measured in unpractical fractional Sobolev norms, but which formulations nevertheless are shown to yield a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Harald Monsuur , Robin Smeets , Rob Stevenson

The problem of least squares regression of a $d$-dimensional unknown parameter is considered. A stochastic gradient descent based algorithm with weighted iterate-averaging that uses a single pass over the data is studied and its convergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Kobi Cohen , Angelia Nedic , R. Srikant