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Non-smoothness at optimal points is a common phenomenon in many eigenvalue optimization problems. We consider two recent algorithms to minimize the largest eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix dependent on one parameter, both proven to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Fatih Kangal , Emre Mengi

In this work we explore the performance of approximations to electron correlation in reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) and of approximations to the observables calculated within this theory. Our analysis focuses on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-26 Stefano Di Sabatino , Jan A. Berger , Lucia Reining , Pina Romaniello

We consider a framework for the construction of iterative schemes for operator equations that combine low-rank approximation in tensor formats and adaptive approximation in a basis. Under fairly general assumptions, we obtain a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

In this paper, we establish minimax optimal rates of convergence for prediction in a semi-functional linear model that consists of a functional component and a less smooth nonparametric component. Our results reveal that the smoother…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Keli Guo , Jun Fan , Lixing Zhu

We study the exploration problem with approximate linear action-value functions in episodic reinforcement learning under the notion of low inherent Bellman error, a condition normally employed to show convergence of approximate value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Andrea Zanette , Alessandro Lazaric , Mykel Kochenderfer , Emma Brunskill

Consider nonparametric function estimation under $L^p$-loss. The minimax rate for estimation of the regression function over a H\"older ball with smoothness index $\beta$ is $n^{-\beta/(2\beta+1)}$ if $1\leq p<\infty$ and $(n/\log…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

This article studies the problem of approximating functions belonging to a Hilbert space $\mathcal H_d$ with a reproducing kernel of the form $$\tilde K_d(\boldsymbol x,\boldsymbol t):=\prod_{\ell=1}^d…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Xuan Zhou , Fred J. Hickernell

In the recent literature on machine learning and decision making, calibration has emerged as a desirable and widely-studied statistical property of the outputs of binary prediction models. However, the algorithmic aspects of measuring model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lunjia Hu , Arun Jambulapati , Kevin Tian , Chutong Yang

We characterize weighted modulation spaces (data space) for which the heat semigroup $e^{-tL}f$ converges pointwise to the initial data $f$ as time $t$ tends to zero. Here $L$ stands for the standard Laplacian $-\Delta $ or Hermite operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Divyang G. Bhimani , Rupak K. Dalai

We study the functional linear regression model with a scalar response and a Hilbert space-valued predictor, a canonical example of an ill-posed inverse problem. We show that the functional partial least squares (PLS) estimator attains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Andrii Babii , Marine Carrasco , Idriss Tsafack

This paper studies the multivariate approximation of functions in weighted Korobov spaces using multiple rank-1 lattice rules. It has been shown by K\"{a}mmerer and Volkmer (2019) that algorithms based on multiple rank-1 lattices achieve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Mou Cai , Takashi Goda

Weighting methods are widely used to adjust for covariates in observational studies, sample surveys, and regression settings. In this paper, we study a class of recently proposed weighting methods which find the weights of minimum…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-29 Yixin Wang , José R. Zubizarreta

We develop an approach for estimating models described via conditional moment restrictions, with a prototypical application being non-parametric instrumental variable regression. We introduce a min-max criterion function, under which the…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-06-15 Nishanth Dikkala , Greg Lewis , Lester Mackey , Vasilis Syrgkanis

We aim to create the highest possible quality of treatment-control matches for categorical data in the potential outcomes framework. Matching methods are heavily used in the social sciences due to their interpretability, but most matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Yameng Liu , Aw Dieng , Sudeepa Roy , Cynthia Rudin , Alexander Volfovsky

We study d-variate approximation problems in the average case setting with respect to a zero-mean Gaussian measure. Our interest is focused on measures having a structure of non-homogeneous linear tensor product, where covariance kernel is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-04 M. A. Lifshits , A. Papageorgiou , H. Woźniakowski

Given an approximation algorithm $A$, we want to find the input with the worst approximation ratio, i.e., the input for which $A$'s output's objective value is the worst possible compared to the optimal solution's objective value. Such hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Eklavya Sharma

In the paper, we propose two new conjectures about the convergence of Hermite Approximants of multivalued analytic functions of Laguerre class ${\mathscr L}$. The conjectures are based in part on the numerical experiments, made recently by…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Nikolay R. Ikonomov , Ralitza K. Kovacheva , Sergey P. Suetin

We study approximation properties of sequences of centered random elements $X_d$, $d\in\mathbb{N}$, with values in separable Hilbert spaces. We focus on sequences of tensor product-type random elements, which have covariance operators of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-10 A. A. Khartov

We recently introduced a method to approximate functions of Hermitian Matrix Product Operators or Tensor Trains that are of the form $\mathsf{Tr} f(A)$. Functions of this type occur in several applications, most notably in quantum physics.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Moritz August , Thomas Huckle

The paper deals with the problem of penalized empirical risk minimization over a convex set of linear functionals on the space of Hermitian matrices with convex loss and nuclear norm penalty. Such penalization is often used in low rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Vladimir Koltchinskii