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The error on a real quantity Y due to the graduation of the measuring instrument may be asymptotically represented, when the graduation is regular and fines down, by a Dirichlet form on R whose square field operator does not depend on the…

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Operator convex functions defined on the positive half-line play a prominent role in the theory of quantum information, where they are used to define quantum $f$-divergences. Such functions admit integral representations in terms of…

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In this paper we analyze the approximation of multivariate integrals over the Euclidean plane for functions which are analytic. We show explicit upper bounds which attain the exponential rate of convergence. We use an infinite grid with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Dong T. P. Nguyen , Dirk Nuyens

This paper considers stochastic convex optimization problems with smooth functional constraints arising in constrained estimation and robust signal recovery. We operate in the high-dimensional and highly-constrained setting, where oracle…

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In this paper, we study the approximate minimization problem of weighted finite automata (WFAs): to compute the best possible approximation of a WFA given a bound on the number of states. By reformulating the problem in terms of Hankel…

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The extremum value theorem for function spaces plays the central role in optimal control. It is known that computation of optimal control actions and policies is often prone to numerical errors which may be related to computability issues.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Pavel Osinenko , Stefan Streif

Rational approximation appears in many contexts throughout science and engineering, playing a central role in linear systems theory, special function approximation, and many others. There are many existing methods for solving the rational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Jeffrey M. Hokanson , Caleb C. Magruder

This paper presents an extension of stochastic gradient descent for the minimization of Lipschitz continuous loss functions. Our motivation is for use in non-smooth non-convex stochastic optimization problems, which are frequently…

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We derive $H_{\text{curl}}$-error estimates and improved $L^2$-error estimates for the Maxwell equations approximated using edge finite elements. These estimates only invoke the expected regularity pickup of the exact solution in the scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Alexandre Ern , Jean-Luc Guermond

We develop a worst-case evaluation complexity bound for trust-region methods in the presence of unbounded Hessian approximations. We use the algorithm of arXiv:2103.15993v3 as a model, which is designed for nonsmooth regularized problems,…

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In this paper, we study an extremal problem concerning best approximation in the Hardy space $H^1$ on the unit disk $\mathbb D$. Specifically, we consider weighted combinations of the Cauchy-Szeg\"o kernel and its derivative, parametrized…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Viktor V. Savchuk , Maryna V. Savchuk

The problem of estimation of analytic density function using L_p minimax risk is considered. A kernel-type estimator of an unknown density function is proposed and the upper bound on its limiting local minimax risk is established. Our…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Natalia Stepanova

In min-min optimization or max-min optimization, one has to compute the gradient of a function defined as a minimum. In most cases, the minimum has no closed-form, and an approximation is obtained via an iterative algorithm. There are two…

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Diophantine approximation is traditionally the study of how well real numbers are approximated by rationals. We propose a model for studying Diophantine approximation in an arbitrary totally bounded metric space where the rationals are…

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This monograph elucidates and extends many theorems and conjectures in analytic number theory and algebraic asymptotic analysis via the natural notion of "degree" and a more general notion that we call "logexponential degree." Specifically,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Jesse Elliott

We give a simple deterministic $O(\log K / \log\log K)$ approximation algorithm for the Min-Max Selecting Items problem, where $K$ is the number of scenarios. While our main goal is simplicity, this result also improves over the previous…

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We prove an asymptotic analog of the classical Hurewicz theorem on mappings which lower dimension. This theorem allows us to find sharp upper bound estimates for the asymptotic dimension of groups acting on finite dimensional metric spaces…

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We consider an overdetermined problem for Laplace equation on a disk with partial boundary data where additional pointwise data inside the disk have to be taken into account. After reformulation, this ill-posed problem reduces to a bounded…

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We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

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