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Morrey--Sobolev inequalities are established for functions in weighted Sobolev spaces on the $n$-dimensional half-space, where the weight is a power of the distance to the boundary, as well as for Sobolev spaces on the $n$-dimensional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Jean Van Schaftingen , Leon Winter

We present bounds for the finite sample error of sequential Monte Carlo samplers on static spaces. Our approach explicitly relates the performance of the algorithm to properties of the chosen sequence of distributions and mixing properties…

Computation · Statistics 2022-08-19 Joe Marion , Joseph Mathews , Scott C. Schmidler

We study a variant of the median problem for a collection of point sets in high dimensions. This generalizes the geometric median as well as the (probabilistic) smallest enclosing ball (pSEB) problems. Our main objective and motivation is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Amer Krivošija , Alexander Munteanu

In this paper we study the statistical properties of Laplacian smoothing, a graph-based approach to nonparametric regression. Under standard regularity conditions, we establish upper bounds on the error of the Laplacian smoothing estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Alden Green , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Ryan J. Tibshirani

Smolyak's method, also known as hyperbolic cross approximation or sparse grid method, is a powerful tool to tackle multivariate tensor product problems solely with the help of efficient algorithms for the corresponding univariate problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Michael Gnewuch , Marcin Wnuk

We study the Sobolev inequality and the existence of its extremal functions in the setting of homogeneous H\"{o}rmander vector fields. A principal result establishes a mutual inclusion between the set of volume growth rates of subunit balls…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Hua Chen , Hong-Ge Chen , Jin-Ning Li

Riemannian manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) is a sampling algorithm that seeks to adapt proposals to the local geometry of the posterior distribution. The specific form of the Hamiltonian used in RMHMC necessitates {\it…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-22 James A. Brofos , Roy R. Lederman

Niederreiter [H.Niederreiter, Error bounds for quasi-Monte Carlo integration with uniform point sets, Journal of computational and applied mathematics 150 (2003), 283-292] established new bounds for quasi-Monte Carlo integration for nodes…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-01 Su Hu , Yan Li

We construct a least squares approximation method for the recovery of complex-valued functions from a reproducing kernel Hilbert space on $D \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. The nodes are drawn at random for the whole class of functions and the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Lutz Kämmerer , Tino Ullrich , Toni Volkmer

We study a modified version of Lerman-Whitehouse Menger-like curvature defined for m+2 points in an n-dimensional Euclidean space. For 1 <= l <= m+2 and an m-dimensional subset S of R^n we also introduce global versions of this discrete…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Sławomir Kolasiński

We consider the theory of regression on a manifold using reproducing kernel Hilbert space methods. Manifold models arise in a wide variety of modern machine learning problems, and our goal is to help understand the effectiveness of various…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Andrew McRae , Justin Romberg , Mark Davenport

This work is concerned with the formulation of a general framework for the analysis of meshfree approximation schemes and with the convergence analysis of the Local Maximum-Entropy (LME) scheme as a particular example. We provide conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Agustin Bompadre , Bernd Schmidt , Michael Ortiz

We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Francis Bach

We study the convergence rate of discretized Riemannian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on sampling from distributions in the form of $e^{-f(x)}$ on a convex body $\mathcal{M}\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$. We show that for distributions in the form of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Yunbum Kook , Yin Tat Lee , Ruoqi Shen , Santosh S. Vempala

Using tools from the theory of operator ideals and s-numbers, we develop a general approach to transfer estimates for $L_2$ -approximation of Sobolev functions into estimates for $L_\infty$-approximation, with precise control of all…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Fernando Cobos , Thomas Kühn , Winfried Sickel

We establish a deterministic and stochastic spherical quasi-interpolation framework featuring scaled zonal kernels derived from radial basis functions on the ambient Euclidean space. The method incorporates both quasi-Monte Carlo and Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Zhengjie Sun , Mengyuan Lv , Xingping Sun

Using standard tools of harmonic analysis, we state and solve the problem of moments for non-negative measures supported on the unit ball of a Sobolev space of multivariate periodic trigonometric functions. We describe outer and inner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Didier Henrion , Alessandro Rudi

We study reparametrization-invariant Sobolev-type Riemannian metrics on the space of immersed surfaces and establish conditions ensuring metric and geodesic completeness as well as the existence of minimizing geodesics. This provides the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Martin Bauer , Cy Maor , Benedikt Wirth

We propose algorithms to take point sets for kernel-based interpolation of functions in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) by convex optimization. We consider the case of kernels with the Mercer expansion and propose an algorithm by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Ken'ichiro Tanaka

We determine lower and exact estimates of Kolmogorov, Gelfand and linear $n$-widths of unit balls in Sobolev norms in $L_{p}$-spaces on compact Riemannian manifolds. As it was shown by us previously these lower estimates are exact…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Isaac Z. Pesenson