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Let $n\ge1$ and $B\ge2$. A real-valued function $f$ defined on the $n$-simplex $\Delta_n$ is approximately convex with respect to $\Delta_{B-1}$ iff f(\sum_{i=1}^B t_ix_i) \le \sum_{i=1}^B t_if(x_i) +1 for all $x_1,...,x_B \in \Delta_n$ and…
Given $K$ arbitrary poles, which are neither necessarily distinct nor bounded, on the extended real line, a corresponding ordered base of rational functions orthogonal with respect to varying exponential weights is constructed: this gives…
The upper estimates for the optimal constants of the multilinear Bohnenblust--Hille inequality obtained in [J. Funct. Anal. 264 (2013), 429--463] are here improved to: {0.1cm} {enumerate} For real scalars:…
We investigate the numerical approximation of an elliptic optimal control problem which involves a nonconvex local regularization of the $L^q$-quasinorm penalization (with $q\in(0,1)$) in the cost function. Our approach is based on the…
We provide analytical functions approximating $\int e^{-x^2} dx$, the basis of which is the kink soliton and which are both accurate (error $< 0.2 %$) and simple. We demonstrate our results with some applications, particularly to the…
We consider the maximization problem in the value oracle model of functions defined on $k$-tuples of sets that are submodular in every orthant and $r$-wise monotone, where $k\geq 2$ and $1\leq r\leq k$. We give an analysis of a…
We leverage the connections between nonexpansive maps, monotone Lipschitz operators, and proximal mappings to obtain near-optimal (i.e., optimal up to poly-log factors in terms of iteration complexity) and parameter-free methods for solving…
We study the $L_2$-approximation of functions from a Hilbert space and compare the sampling numbers with the approximation numbers. The sampling number $e_n$ is the minimal worst case error that can be achieved with $n$ function values,…
$k$-Coloring Reconfiguration is one of the most well-studied reconfiguration problems, which asks to transform a given proper $k$-coloring of a graph to another by repeatedly recoloring a single vertex. Its approximate version, Maxmin…
A decision rule is epsilon-minimax if it is minimax up to an additive factor epsilon. We present an algorithm for provably obtaining epsilon-minimax solutions for a class of statistical decision problems. In particular, we are interested in…
A rational approximation by a ratio of polynomial functions is a flexible alternative to polynomial approximation. In particular, rational functions exhibit accurate estimations to nonsmooth and non- Lipschitz functions, where polynomial…
In this work, we propose an extensive numerical study on approximating the absolute value function. The methods presented in this paper compute approximants in the form of rational functions and have been proposed relatively recently, e.g.,…
Fixed a continuous kernel K on the $d$-dimensional torus, we consider a generalization of the univariate $sk$-spline to the torus, associated with the kernel K. It is proved an estimate which provides the rate of convergence of a given…
We give a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the (not necessarily metric) $k$-Median problem. The algorithm is an $\alpha$-size-approximation algorithm for $\alpha < 1 + 2 \ln(n/k)$. That is, it guarantees a solution having size at…
We consider the fundamental problem of estimating a discrete distribution on a domain of size $K$ with high probability in Kullback-Leibler divergence. We provide upper and lower bounds on the minimax estimation rate, which show that the…
In monotone submodular function maximization, approximation guarantees based on the curvature of the objective function have been extensively studied in the literature. However, the notion of curvature is often pessimistic, and we rarely…
The widely used nuclear norm heuristic for rank minimization problems introduces a regularization parameter which is difficult to tune. We have recently proposed a method to approximate the regularization path, i.e., the optimal solution as…
In the paper "The best m-term approximation and greedy algorithms" (V. N. Temlyakov), an error bound for a near best m-term approximation of a function g in L^p([0,1]^d) is provided, using a basis L^p-equivalent to the Haar system, where p…
We consider the problem of approximating a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) $p\times m$ rational transfer function $H(s)$ of high degree by another $p\times m$ rational transfer function $\hat H(s)$ of much smaller degree, so that the…
We prove and apply an optimal low-rank approximation of the Cauchy kernel over separated real domains. A skeleton decomposition is the minimum over real-valued functions of the maximum relative pointwise error. We present an algorithm to…