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We study the basic computational problem of detecting approximate stationary points for continuous piecewise affine (PA) functions. Our contributions span multiple aspects, including complexity, regularity, and algorithms. Specifically, we…

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In this paper we discuss approximation of partially smooth functions. The problem arises naturally in the study of laminated currents.

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We present a new approach to convergence rate results for variational regularization. Avoiding Bregman distances and using image space approximation rates as source conditions we prove a nearly minimax theorem showing that the modulus of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Philip Miller

We established exact in order estimates an approximation of the Sobolev classes $W^{\boldsymbol{r}}_{p,\boldsymbol{\alpha}}(\mathbb{T}^d)$ of periodic functions of many variables with a bounded dominating mixed derivative. The approximation…

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Methods have previously been developed for the approximation of Lyapunov functions using radial basis functions. However these methods assume that the evolution equations are known. We consider the problem of approximating a given Lyapunov…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Peter Giesl , Boumediene Hamzi , Martin Rasmussen , Kevin N. Webster

We provide a new method to approximate a (possibly discontinuous) function using Christoffel-Darboux kernels. Our knowledge about the unknown multivariate function is in terms of finitely many moments of the Young measure supported on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Swann Marx , Edouard Pauwels , Tillmann Weisser , Didier Henrion , Jean Lasserre

In this paper we consider the approximation of functions by radial basis function interpolants. There is a plethora of results about the asymptotic behaviour of the error between appropriately smooth functions and their interpolants, as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-02 R. A. Brownlee , W. A. Light

In this paper, we develop approximation error estimates as well as corresponding inverse inequalities for B-splines of maximum smoothness, where both the function to be approximated and the approximation error are measured in standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Stefan Takacs , Thomas Takacs

In this paper, we propose a new and simple approach to the approximation algorithms that are modified and improved from our published results. The computational and graphical examples are presented with the aid of Maple procedures.

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In this article, we show some density properties of smooth and compactly supported functions in fractional Musielak-Sobolev spaces essentially extending the results of Fiscella, Servadei, and Valdinoci obtained in the fractional Sobolev…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Azeddine Baalal , Mohamed Berghout , EL-Houcine Ouali

In this paper, we derive optimality conditions (Chebyshev approximation) for multivariate functions. The theory of Chebyshev (uniform) approximation for univariate functions is very elegant. The optimality conditions are based on the notion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon , David Yost

Current algorithmic approaches for piecewise affine motion estimation are based on alternating motion segmentation and estimation. We propose a new method to estimate piecewise affine motion fields directly without intermediate…

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Even though the statistical theory of linear inverse problems is a well-studied topic, certain relevant cases remain open. Among these is the estimation of functions of bounded variation ($BV$), meaning $L^1$ functions on a $d$-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Miguel del Álamo , Axel Munk

We discuss technical results on learning function approximations using piecewise-linear basis functions, and analyze their stability and convergence using nonlinear contraction theory.

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Primal-dual splitting involving proximity operators in order to be able to find some approximation to the minimizer for a general form of Tikhonov type functional is in the focus of this work. This approximation is produced by a pair of…

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Approximation of scattered data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This approach is useful for a higher…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

Given cell-average data values of a piecewise smooth bivariate function $f$ within a domain $\Omega$, we look for a piecewise adaptive approximation to $f$. We are interested in an explicit and global (smooth) approach. Bivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Sergio Amat , David Levin , Juan Ruiz-Alvarez , Dionisio F. Yáñez

Given a function f defined on a bidimensional bounded domain and a positive integer N, we study the properties of the triangulation that minimizes the distance between f and its interpolation on the associated finite element space, over all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau

A piecewise linear function can be described in different forms: as an arbitrarily nested expression of $\min$- and $\max$-functions, as a difference of two convex piecewise linear functions, or as a linear combination of maxima of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Christoph Koutschan , Bernhard Moser , Anton Ponomarchuk , Josef Schicho

We consider a mollifying operator with variable step that, in contrast to the standard mollification, is able to preserve the boundary values of functions. We prove boundedness of the operator in all basic Lebesgue, Sobolev and BV spaces as…

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