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We introduce several generalizations of classical computer science problems obtained by replacing simpler objective functions with general submodular functions. The new problems include submodular load balancing, which generalizes load…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-02 Zoya Svitkina , Lisa Fleischer

By extending the classical quantitative approximation results for positive and linear operators in $L^{p}([0, 1]), 1\le p \le +\infty$ of Berens and DeVore in 1978 and of Swetits and Wood in 1983 to the more general case of sublinear,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Sorin G. Gal , Constantin P. Niculescu

The problem of approximating the covariance operator of the mild solution to a linear stochastic partial differential equation is considered. An integral equation involving the semigroup of the mild solution is derived and a general error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Mihály Kovács , Annika Lang , Andreas Petersson

In this article we develop function-based a posteriori error estimators for the solution of linear second order elliptic problems considering hierarchical spline spaces for the Galerkin discretization. We prove a global upper bound for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Annalisa Buffa , Eduardo M. Garau

We study in this paper the function approximation error of linear interpolation and extrapolation. Several upper bounds are presented along with the conditions under which they are sharp. All results are under the assumptions that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Liyuan Cao , Zaiwen Wen , Ya-xiang Yuan

We develop a minimax theory for operator learning, where the goal is to estimate an unknown operator between separable Hilbert spaces from finitely many noisy input-output samples. For uniformly bounded Lipschitz operators, we prove…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Ben Adcock , Gregor Maier , Rahul Parhi

In this paper, we define B\'{e}zier variant of generalized Bernstein-Durrmeyer type operators of second order, introduced by Ana et al. Then, we find an error estimate in terms of terms of Ditzian Totik modulus of smoothness. Next, we study…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Karunesh Kumar Singh , Asha Ram Gairola

We give a new lower bound for the first gap $\lambda_2 - \lambda_1$ of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the Schr{\"o}dinger operator on a bounded convex domain $\Omega$ in R$^n$ or S$^n$ and greatly sharpens the previous estimates. The new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun Ling

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a difference-of-convex objective over a nonlinear conic constraint, where the cone is closed, convex, pointed and has a nonempty interior. We assume that the support function of a compact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jiefeng Xu , Ting Kei Pong , Nung-sing Sze

We adapt Stein's method of diffusion approximations, developed by Barbour, to the study of chaotic dynamical systems. We establish an error bound in the functional central limit theorem with respect to an integral probability metric of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Juho Leppänen , Yuto Nakajima , Yushi Nakano

Numerical solutions of differential equations are usually not smooth functions. However, they should resemble the smoothness of the corresponding real solutions in one way or another. In two of our recent papers, a kind of spacial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-13 Tong Sun

We consider the Schr\"odinger operator $$-\frac{d^2}{d x^2} + V \qquad \mbox{on an interval}~~[a,b]~\mbox{with Dirichlet boundary conditions},$$ where $V$ is bounded from below and prove a lower bound on the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Bogdan Georgiev , Mayukh Mukherjee , Stefan Steinerberger

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) plays a central role in modern machine learning. While there is extensive work on providing error upper bound for SGD, not much is known about SGD error lower bound. In this paper, we study the convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Zhiyan Ding , Yiding Chen , Qin Li , Xiaojin Zhu

We investigate error orders for integral limit approximations to traces of products of Toeplitz matrices generated by integrable functions on $[-\pi,\pi]$ having some singularities at the origin. Even though a sharp error order of the above…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Tetsuya Takabatake

In many applications that involve the inference of an unknown smooth function, the inference of its derivatives will often be just as important as that of the function itself. To make joint inferences of the function and its derivatives, a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-07 Ziang Zhang , Alex Stringer , Patrick Brown , Jamie Stafford

This paper discusses the properties of a modified version of the Stancu variant Sz\'asz-Mirakjan Kantorovich type operators. We determine the order of approximation in terms of the modulus of continuity and second-order of smoothness, and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Rishikesh Yadav , Ramakanta Meher , Vishnu Narayan Mishra

In this paper a spline based integral approximation is utilized to propose a sequence of approximations to the error function that converge at a significantly faster manner than the default Taylor series. The approximations can be improved…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Roy M. Howard

Second variation of a smooth optimal control problem at a regular extremal is a symmetric Fredholm operator. We study asymptotics of the spectrum of this operator and give an explicit expression for its determinant in terms of solutions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Andrei Agrachev

We propose a variable metric framework for minimizing the sum of a self-concordant function and a possibly non-smooth convex function, endowed with an easily computable proximal operator. We theoretically establish the convergence of our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-15 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

We study subgradient sequences of locally Lipschitz functions definable in a polynomially bounded o-minimal structure. We show that the diameter of any subgradient sequence is related to the variation in function values, with error terms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Lexiao Lai , Mingzhi Song