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Envelopes were recently proposed as methods for reducing estimative variation in multivariate linear regression. Estimation of an envelope usually involves optimization over Grassmann manifolds. We propose a fast and widely applicable…
Envelope methods offer targeted dimension reduction for various models. The overarching goal is to improve efficiency in multivariate parameter estimation by projecting the data onto a lower-dimensional subspace known as the envelope.…
We present an analytical-numerical method providing robust upper estimates for the topological entropy or, more generally, uniform volume growth exponents of differentiable mappings. By introducing varying metrics, we simplify the analysis…
Envelope methodology is succinctly pitched as a class of procedures for increasing efficiency in multivariate analyses without altering traditional objectives \citep[first sentence of page 1]{cook2018introduction}. This description is true…
Robust Affine Matching with Grassmannians (RoAM) is a new algorithm to perform affine registration of point clouds. The algorithm is based on minimizing the Frobenius distance between two elements of the Grassmannian. For this purpose, an…
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Oberman gave a stochastic control formulation of the problem of estimating the convex envelope of a non-convex function. Based on this, we develop a reinforcement learning scheme to approximate the convex envelope, using a variant of…
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