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Random Fourier features provide a way to tackle large-scale machine learning problems with kernel methods. Their slow Monte Carlo convergence rate has motivated the research of deterministic Fourier features whose approximation error can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Frederiek Wesel , Kim Batselier

Dynamic Programming (DP) suffers from the well-known ``curse of dimensionality'', further exacerbated by the need to compute expectations over process noise in stochastic models. This paper presents a Monte Carlo-based sampling approach for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Mohammad S. Ramadan , Ahmad Al-Tawaha , Mohamed Shouman , Ahmed Atallah , Ming Jin

We consider the problem of estimating a structured multivariate density, subject to Markov conditions implied by an undirected graph. In the worst case, without Markovian assumptions, this problem suffers from the curse of dimensionality.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-11 Robert A. Vandermeulen , Wai Ming Tai , Bryon Aragam

The purpose of this article is to develop a machinery to study the capacity of deep neural networks (DNNs) to approximate high-dimensional functions. In particular, we show that DNNs have the expressive power to overcome the curse of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Pierfrancesco Beneventano , Patrick Cheridito , Robin Graeber , Arnulf Jentzen , Benno Kuckuck

We study the problem of approximating functions of $d$ variables in the average case setting for the $L_2$ space $L_{2,d}$ with the standard Gaussian weight equipped with a zero-mean Gaussian measure. The covariance kernel of this Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Jia Chen , Heping Wang

We present a lower error bound for approximating linear multivariate operators defined over Hilbert spaces in terms of the error bounds for appropriately constructed linear functionals as long as algorithms use function values. Furthermore,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Erich Novak , Henryk Wozniakowski

We prove the curse of dimensionality for multivariate integration of C^r functions: The number of needed function values to achieve an error \epsilon\ is larger than c_r (1+\gamma)^d for \epsilon\le \epsilon_0, where c_r,\gamma>0 and d is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Aicke Hinrichs , Erich Novak , Mario Ullrich , Henryk Wozniakowski

This paper deals with the classical problem of density estimation on the real line. Most of the existing papers devoted to minimax properties assume that the support of the underlying density is bounded and known. But this assumption may be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-07-13 Patricia Reynaud-Bouret , Vincent Rivoirard , Christine Tuleau-Malot

This work proposes a sampling-based (non-intrusive) approach within the context of low-rank separated representations to tackle the issue of curse-of-dimensionality associated with the solution of models, e.g., PDEs/ODEs, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Alireza Doostan , AbdoulAhad Validi , Gianluca Iaccarino

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become a very powerful tool in the approximation of high-dimensional functions. Especially, deep ANNs, consisting of a large number of hidden layers, have been very successfully used in a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Philipp Grohs , Shokhrukh Ibragimov , Arnulf Jentzen , Sarah Koppensteiner

Many real world stochastic control problems suffer from the "curse of dimensionality". To overcome this difficulty, we develop a deep learning approach that directly solves high-dimensional stochastic control problems based on Monte-Carlo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Jiequn Han , Weinan E

For a long time it is well-known that high-dimensional linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) can be approximated by Monte Carlo methods with a computational effort which grows polynomially both in the dimension and in the…

We study the approximation of high-dimensional rank one tensors using point evaluations and consider deterministic as well as randomized algorithms. We prove that for certain parameters (smoothness and norm of the $r$th derivative) this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Erich Novak , Daniel Rudolf

In this work we study the validity of the so-called curse of dimensionality for indexing of databases for similarity search. We perform an asymptotic analysis, with a test model based on a sequence of metric spaces $(\Omega_d)$ from which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-14 Ilya Volnyansky

This paper concerns the approximation of smooth, high-dimensional functions from limited samples using polynomials. This task lies at the heart of many applications in computational science and engineering - notably, some of those arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia

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

We offer a theoretical validation of the curse of dimensionality in the pivot-based indexing of datasets for similarity search, by proving, in the framework of statistical learning, that in high dimensions no pivot-based indexing scheme can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ilya Volnyansky , Vladimir Pestov

Max-plus based methods have been recently developed to approximate the value function of possibly high dimensional optimal control problems. A critical step of these methods consists in approximating a function by a supremum of a small…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Stephane Gaubert , William McEneaney , Zheng Qu

As is known, factor analysis is a popular method to reduce dimension for high-dimensional data. For matrix data, the dimension reduction can be more effectively achieved through both row and column directions. In this paper, we introduce a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-17 Xialu Liu , Elynn Chen

Practical applications of nonparametric density estimators in more than three dimensions suffer a great deal from the well-known curse of dimensionality: convergence slows down as dimension increases. We show that one can evade the curse of…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-24 Thomas Nagler , Claudia Czado