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Recent quasi-optimal error estimates for the finite element approximation of total-variation regularized minimization problems using the Crouzeix--Raviart finite element require the existence of a Lipschitz continuous dual solution, which…

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In the development of first-order methods for smooth (resp., composite) convex optimization problems, where smooth functions with Lipschitz continuous gradients are minimized, the gradient (resp., gradient mapping) norm becomes a…

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The paper is devoted to new modifications of recently proposed adaptive methods of Mirror Descent for convex minimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Methods for problems of two classes are considered. The…

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Incremental gradient and incremental proximal methods are a fundamental class of optimization algorithms used for solving finite sum problems, broadly studied in the literature. Yet, without strong convexity, their convergence guarantees…

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In this paper, our aim is to analyse the generalization capabilities of first-order methods for statistical learning in multiple, different yet related, scenarios including supervised learning, transfer learning, robust learning and…

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We propose new optimal estimators for the Lipschitz frontier of a set of points. They are defined as kernel estimators being sufficiently regular, covering all the points and whose associated support is of smallest surface. The estimators…

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Existing results for low-rank matrix recovery largely focus on quadratic loss, which enjoys favorable properties such as restricted strong convexity/smoothness (RSC/RSM) and well conditioning over all low rank matrices. However, many…

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Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^{n+1}$, $n\geq1$, be a bounded open set satisfying the interior corkscrew condition with a uniformly $n$-rectifiable boundary but without any connectivity assumptions. We establish the estimate $$ \Vert…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Josep M. Gallegos

We consider high-dimensional generalized linear models with Lipschitz loss functions, and prove a nonasymptotic oracle inequality for the empirical risk minimizer with Lasso penalty. The penalty is based on the coefficients in the linear…

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We consider the classical problem of sequential probability assignment under logarithmic loss while competing against an arbitrary, potentially nonparametric class of experts. We obtain tight bounds on the minimax regret via a new approach…

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Estimation of the mean and covariance functions is a fundamental problem in functional data analysis, particularly for discretely observed functional data. In this work, we study a regularization-based framework for estimating the mean and…

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We prove optimal sampling bounds achieving $(1\pm\varepsilon)$-relative error for a broad class of Lipschitz continuous classification loss functions under various regularization terms. This includes important functions such as logistic and…

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The sharpest known high probability generalization bounds for uniformly stable algorithms (Feldman, Vondr\'{a}k, 2018, 2019), (Bousquet, Klochkov, Zhivotovskiy, 2020) contain a generally inevitable sampling error term of order…

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We provide sharp path-dependent generalization and excess risk guarantees for the full-batch Gradient Descent (GD) algorithm on smooth losses (possibly non-Lipschitz, possibly nonconvex). At the heart of our analysis is an upper bound on…

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Functional linear regression is one of the fundamental and well-studied methods in functional data analysis. In this work, we investigate the functional linear regression model within the context of reproducing kernel Hilbert space by…

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We study linear function approximation in a finite basis under finite-precision arithmetic. In a highly non-orthogonal basis, certain directions are only weakly represented, so that rounding errors can significantly distort the effectively…

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Sparse optimization has seen its advances in recent decades. For scenarios where the true sparsity is unknown, regularization turns out to be a promising solution. Two popular non-convex regularizations are the so-called $L_0$ norm and…

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We address the problem of adaptive minimax estimation in white gaussian noise model under $L_p$--loss, $1\leq p\leq\infty,$ on the anisotropic Nikolskii classes. We present the estimation procedure based on a new data-driven selection…

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