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Most problems in electrodynamics do not have an analytical solution so much effort has been put in the development of numerical schemes, such as the finite-difference method, volume element methods, boundary element methods, and related…
We describe a two-level method for computing a function whose zero-level set is the surface reconstructed from given points scattered over the surface and associated with surface normal vectors. The function is defined as a linear…
We study algorithms to estimate geometric properties of raw point cloud data through implicit surface representations. Given that any level-set function with a constant level set corresponding to the surface can be used for such…
We construct cubature methods on scattered data via resampling on the support of known algebraic cubature formulas, by different kinds of adaptive interpolation (polynomial, RBF, PUM). This approach gives a promising alternative to other…
In this paper a local approximation method on the sphere is presented. As interpolation scheme we consider a partition of unity method, such as the modified spherical Shepard's method, which uses zonal basis functions (ZBFs) plus spherical…
In this paper we obtain approximated numerical solutions for the 2D Helmholtz equation using a radial basis function-generated finite difference scheme (RBF-FD), where weights are calculated by applying an oscillatory radial basis function…
The direct method used for calculating smooth radial basis function (RBF) interpolants in the flat limit becomes numerically unstable. The RBF-QR algorithm bypasses this ill-conditioning using a clever change of basis technique. We extend…
In this paper we present a new approach for tightening upper bounds on the partition function. Our upper bounds are based on fractional covering bounds on the entropy function, and result in a concave program to compute these bounds and a…
A fundamental problem in numerical analysis and approximation theory is approximating smooth functions by polynomials. A much harder version under recent consideration is to enforce bounds constraints on the approximating polynomial. In…
Here we study theoretically and compare experimentally an efficient method for solving systems of algebraic equations, where the matrix comes from the discretization of a fractional diffusion operator. More specifically, we focus on…
We consider the problem of computing the partition function $\sum_x e^{f(x)}$, where $f: \{-1, 1\}^n \longrightarrow {\Bbb R}$ is a quadratic or cubic polynomial on the Boolean cube $\{-1, 1\}^n$. In the case of a quadratic polynomial $f$,…
We present a new method for the solution of PDEs on manifolds $\mathbb{M} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of co-dimension one using stable scale-free radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. Our method involves augmenting polyharmonic spline (PHS)…
Kernel methods are widespread in machine learning; however, they are limited by the quadratic complexity of the construction, application, and storage of kernel matrices. Low-rank matrix approximation algorithms are widely used to address…
Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have proven to be an effective tool for performing safe control synthesis for nonlinear systems. However, guaranteeing safety in the presence of disturbances and input constraints for high relative degree…
In this paper, we study functional approximations where we choose the so-called radial basis function method and more specifically, quasi-interpolation. From the various available approaches to the latter, we form new quasi-Lagrange…
The Reduced Basis (RB) method is a well established method for the model order reduction of problems formulated as parametrized partial differential equations. One crucial requirement for the application of RB schemes is the availability of…
When solving partial differential equations on scattered nodes using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD) method, one of the parameters that must be chosen is the stencil size. Focusing on Polyharmonic Spline RBFs…
In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for bivariate interpolation, which is based on the use of the partition of unity method for constructing a global interpolant. It is obtained by combining local radial basis function…
The numerical solution of spectral fractional diffusion problems in the form ${\mathcal A}^\alpha u = f$ is studied, where $\mathcal A$ is a selfadjoint elliptic operator in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^d$, and $\alpha \in…
We present a novel derivative-free interpolation based optimization algorithm. A trust-region method is used where a surrogate model is realized via an interpolation framework. The framework for interpolation is provided by Universal…