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In this paper, we present a new iterative approximate method of solving boundary value problems. The idea is to compute approximate polynomial solutions in the Bernstein form using least squares approximation combined with some properties…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Przemysław Gospodarczyk , Paweł Woźny

A fundamental problem in numerical analysis and approximation theory is approximating smooth functions by polynomials. A much harder version under recent consideration is to enforce bounds constraints on the approximating polynomial. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Larry Allen , Robert C. Kirby

In this work we present a method, based on the use of Bernstein polynomials, for the numerical resolution of some boundary values problems. The computations have not need of particular approximations of derivatives, such as finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Gianluca Argentini

The Bernstein polynomial basis sees significant use owing to its unique properties, particularly in the field of optimal control. However, the basis is known to have a slow rate of convergence to the function it approximates. With this in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Maxwell Hammond , Gage MacLin , Laurent Jay , Venanzio Cichella

This paper is devoted to find the numerical solutions of one dimensional general nonlinear system of third-order boundary value problems (BVPs) for the pair of functions using Galerkin weighted residual method. We derive mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Snigdha Dhar , Md. Shafiqul Islam

Bernstein polynomial approximation to a continuous function has a slower rate of convergence as compared to other approximation methods. "The fact seems to have precluded any numerical application of Bernstein polynomials from having been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Venanzio Cichella , Isaac Kaminer , Claire Walton , Naira Hovakimyan , Antonio Pascoal

Solutions to many important partial differential equations satisfy bounds constraints, but approximations computed by finite element or finite difference methods typically fail to respect the same conditions. Chang and Nakshatrala enforce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Robert C. Kirby , Daniel Shapero

Method of parameterizing and smoothing the unknown underling distributions using Bernstein polynomials is proposed, verified and investigated. Any distribution with bounded and smooth enough density can be approximated by the proposed…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-23 Zhong Guan

Grouped data are commonly encountered in applications. The Bernstein polynomial model is proposed as an approximate model in this paper for estimating a univariate density function based on grouped data. The coefficients of the Bernstein…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-21 Zhong Guan

We present two improved randomized neural network methods, namely RNN-Scaling and RNN-Boundary-Processing (RNN-BP) methods, for solving elliptic equations such as the Poisson equation and the biharmonic equation. The RNN-Scaling method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Huifang Zhou , Zhiqiang Sheng

The paper builds upon a recent approach to find the approximate bounds of a real function using Polynomial Chaos expansions. Given a function of random variables with compact support probability distributions, the intuition is to quantify…

Computation · Statistics 2011-07-11 Gabriel Terejanu , Puneet Singla , Tarunraj Singh , Peter D. Scott

In this work, we present composite Bernstein polynomials as a direct collocation method for approximating optimal control problems. An analysis of the convergence properties of composite Bernstein polynomials is provided, and beneficial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Gage MacLin , Venanzio Cichella , Andrew Patterson , Michael Acheson , Irene Gregory

We introduce a novel method for bounding high-order multi-dimensional polynomials in finite element approximations. The method involves precomputing optimal piecewise-linear bounding boxes for polynomial basis functions, which can then be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Tarik Dzanic , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal

In this paper, we examine linear programming (LP) relaxations based on Bernstein polynomials for polynomial optimization problems (POPs). We present a progression of increasingly more precise LP relaxations based on expressing the given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-04 Mohamed Amin Ben Sassi , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

A novel inner approximation algorithm is proposed for dynamic optimization problems to ensure strict satisfaction of path constraints. Distinct from traditional methods relying on interval analysis, the proposed algorithm leverages the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yuan Chang , Lizhong Jiang , Tai-Fang Li , Jun Fu

In this paper, we study the Bernstein polynomial model for estimating the multivariate distribution functions and densities with bounded support. As a mixture model of multivariate beta distributions, the maximum (approximate) likelihood…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-23 Tao Wang , Zhong Guan

Bernstein's theorem (also called Hausdorff--Bernstein--Widder theorem) enables the integral representation of a completely monotonic function. We introduce a finite completely monotonic function, which is a completely monotonic function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Yohei M. Koyama

We define the notion of Bernstein measures and Bernstein approximations over general convex polytopes. This generalizes well-known Bernstein polynomials which are used to prove the Weierstrass approximation theorem on one dimensional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Tatsuya Tate

We establish a priori Lipschitz estimates for equations with mixed local and nonlocal diffusion, coercive gradient terms and unbounded right-hand side in Lebesgue spaces through an integral refinement of the Bernstein method. This relies on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Alessandro Goffi

A new maximum likelihood method for deconvoluting a continuous density with a positive lower bound on a known compact support in additive measurement error models with known error distribution using the approximate Bernstein type polynomial…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-30 Zhong Guan
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