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It is shown how piecewise differentiable functions $F: \mathbb R^n \mapsto \mathbb R^m $ that are defined by evaluation programs can be approximated locally by a piecewise linear model based on a pair of sample points $\check x$ and $\hat…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Andreas Griewank , Tom Streubel , Lutz Lehmann , Manuel Radons , Richard Hasenfelder

Cosine similarity is a widely used measure of the relatedness of pre-trained word embeddings, trained on a language modeling goal. Datasets such as WordSim-353 and SimLex-999 rate how similar words are according to human annotators, and as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Isa M. Apallius de Vos , Ghislaine L. van den Boogerd , Mara D. Fennema , Adriana D. Correia

Computing the expectation of kernel functions is a ubiquitous task in machine learning, with applications from classical support vector machines to exploiting kernel embeddings of distributions in probabilistic modeling, statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Wenzhe Li , Zhe Zeng , Antonio Vergari , Guy Van den Broeck

In this work, we broadly connect kernel-based filtering (e.g. approaches such as the bilateral filters and nonlocal means, but also many more) with general variational formulations of Bayesian regularized least squares, and the related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Frank Ong , Peyman Milanfar , Pascal Getreuer

We present a method for constructing global analytical expressions that approximate a function over its entire range. These approximations not only mirror the original function as accurately as desired, but are purposefully created to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Aviv Orly

In statistical physics and information theory, although the exponent of the partition function is often of our primary interest, there are cases where one needs more detailed information. In this paper, we present a general framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Ryuhei Mori , Toshiyuki Tanaka

The availability of graph data with node attributes that can be either discrete or real-valued is constantly increasing. While existing kernel methods are effective techniques for dealing with graphs having discrete node labels, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Giovanni Da San Martino , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

We investigate approximation of a Bernoulli partial sum process to the accompanying Poisson process in the non-i.i.d. case. The rate of closeness is studied in terms of the minimal distance in probability.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Pavel S. Ruzankin , Igor S. Borisov

The aim of these notes is to describe some recent results concerning dispersive estimates for principally normal pseudodifferential operators. The main motivation for this comes from unique continuation problems. Such estimates can be used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Herbert Koch , Daniel Tataru

The goal of this project is to (i) accumulate annotated informal/formal mathematical corpora suitable for training semi-automated translation between informal and formal mathematics by statistical machine-translation methods, (ii) to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Cezary Kaliszyk , Josef Urban , Jiri Vyskocil , Herman Geuvers

We study point processes that consist of certain centers of point tuples of an underlying Poisson process. Such processes arise in stochastic geometry in the study of exceedances of various functionals describing geometric properties of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Moritz Otto

Many real-world applications require making multiple predictions from the same text. Fine-tuning a large pre-trained language model for each downstream task causes computational burdens in the inference time due to several times of forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Kuan-Hao Huang , Liang Tan , Rui Hou , Sinong Wang , Amjad Almahairi , Ruty Rinott

Spatial relations between objects in an image have proved useful for structural object recognition. Structural constraints can act as regularization in neural network training, improving generalization capability with small datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Mateus Riva , Pietro Gori , Florian Yger , Roberto Cesar , Isabelle Bloch

The piecewise-concave function may be used to approximate a wide range of other functions to arbitrary precision over a bounded set. In this short paper, this property is proven for three function classes: (a) the multivariate twice…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-18 Gene A. Bunin

It is proved, that for a certain kind of input distribution, the strongly binomially attenuated photon number distribution can well be approximated by a Poisson distribution. This explains why we can adopt poissonian distribution as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yucheng Hu , Xiang Peng , Tiejun Li , Hong Guo

We present a method that allows efficient and safe approximation of model predictive controllers using kernel interpolation. Since the computational complexity of the approximating function scales linearly with the number of data points, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Alexander Rose , Philipp Schaub , Rolf Findeisen

Kernel approximation via nonlinear random feature maps is widely used in speeding up kernel machines. There are two main challenges for the conventional kernel approximation methods. First, before performing kernel approximation, a good…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-16 Felix X. Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , Henry Rowley , Shih-Fu Chang

We study translative integral formulas for certain translation invariant functionals on convex polytopes and discuss local extensions and applications to Poisson processes and Boolean models.

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-10 Wolfgang Weil

In this paper, we will discuss the notion of almost orthogonality in a functional sequence.Especially, we will define a few sequences of almost orthogonal polynomials which can be used successfully for modeling of electronic systems which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Predrag Rajkovic , Sladjana Marinkovic

The Cox process is a stochastic process which generalises the Poisson process by letting the underlying intensity function itself be a stochastic process. In this paper we present a fast Bayesian inference scheme for the permanental…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-07 Christian J. Walder , Adrian N. Bishop