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Laplace approximations are a standard tool for computationally efficient inference in latent Gaussian models, but they fail for quantile regression with the asymmetric Laplace likelihood because the observed Hessian vanishes almost…

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We study the consistency of stochastic dynamic programs under converging probability distributions and other approximations. Utilizing results on the epi-convergence of expectation functions with varying measures and integrands, and the…

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Laplace approximation is a very useful tool in Bayesian inference and it claims a nearly Gaussian behavior of the posterior. \cite{SpLaplace2022} established some rather accurate finite sample results about the quality of Laplace…

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We derive a priori error estimates for Nitsche's method applied to elliptic problems on approximate domains. Such approximations arise, for example, in unfitted finite element methods, data-driven simulations, and evolving domain problems,…

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This paper presents a tractable algorithm for estimating an unknown Lipschitz function from noisy observations and establishes an upper bound on its convergence rate. The approach extends max-affine methods from convex shape-restricted…

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We analyze convergence of the Levenberg-Marquardt method for solving nonlinear inverse problems in Hilbert spaces. Specifically, we establish local convergence and convergence rates for a class of inverse problems that satisfy H\"{o}lder…

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Although the Laplace approximation offers a simple route to uncertainty quantification in deep neural networks, its reliance on inverting large Hessian matrices has motivated a range of computationally feasible low-dimensional or sparse…

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Many models require integrals of high-dimensional functions: for instance, to obtain marginal likelihoods. Such integrals may be intractable, or too expensive to compute numerically. Instead, we can use the Laplace approximation (LA). The…

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Finite sample size corrections to the reparametrization-invariant solution of the inverse problem of probability are computed, and shown to converge uniformly to the correct distribution.

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We consider the problem of estimating the support of a measure from a finite, independent, sample. The estimators which are considered are constructed based on the empirical Christoffel function. Such estimators have been proposed for the…

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In this paper approximations of three classes of fractional derivatives (FD) using modified Gauss integration (MGI) and Gauss-Laguerre integration (GLI) are considered. The main solutions of these fractional derivatives depend on inverse of…

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Given a bounded domain, we deal with the problem of estimating the distance function from the internal points of the domain to the boundary of the domain. Convolutional and differential distance estimation schemes are considered and, for…

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