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Random smoothing data augmentation is a unique form of regularization that can prevent overfitting by introducing noise to the input data, encouraging the model to learn more generalized features. Despite its success in various…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-15 Liang Ding , Tianyang Hu , Jiahang Jiang , Donghao Li , Wenjia Wang , Yuan Yao

In this paper, we propose a low-rank approximation method based on discrete least-squares for the approximation of a multivariate function from random, noisy-free observations. Sparsity inducing regularization techniques are used within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Mathilde Chevreuil , Régis Lebrun , Anthony Nouy , Prashant Rai

Combining the techniques of approximation algorithms and parameterized complexity has long been considered a promising research area, but relatively few results are currently known. In this paper we study the parameterized approximability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Michael Lampis

Multivariate global polynomial approximations - such as polynomial chaos or stochastic collocation methods - are now in widespread use for sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification. The pseudospectral variety of these methods uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Paul G. Constantine , Michael S. Eldred , Eric T. Phipps

We propose, theoretically investigate, and numerically validate an algorithm for the Monte Carlo solution of least-squares polynomial approximation problems in a collocation frame- work. Our method is motivated by generalized Polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Akil Narayan , John D. Jakeman , Tao Zhou

Motivated by conforming finite element methods for elliptic problems of second order, we analyze the approximation of the gradient of a target function by continuous piecewise polynomial functions over a simplicial mesh. The main result is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Andreas Veeser

This paper focuses on minimizing a smooth function combined with a nonsmooth regularization term on a compact Riemannian submanifold embedded in the Euclidean space under a decentralized setting. Typically, there are two types of approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Lei Wang , Le Bao , Xin Liu

We study the basic computational problem of detecting approximate stationary points for continuous piecewise affine (PA) functions. Our contributions span multiple aspects, including complexity, regularity, and algorithms. Specifically, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Lai Tian , Anthony Man-Cho So

This work is a continuation of the recent study by the authors on approximation theory over the sphere and the ball. The main results define new Sobolev spaces on these domains and study polynomial approximations for functions in these…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-11-15 Feng Dai , Yuan Xu

Approximation by polynomials on a triangle is studied in the Sobolev space $W_2^r$ that consists of functions whose derivatives of up to $r$-th order have bounded $L^2$ norm. The first part aims at understanding the orthogonal structure in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Yuan Xu

Many inverse problems and signal processing problems involve low-rank regularizers based on the nuclear norm. Commonly, proximal gradient methods (PGM) are adopted to solve this type of non-smooth problems as they can offer fast and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Rodrigo A. Lobos , Javier Salazar Cavazos , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We study high-dimensional nonlinear approximation of functions in H\"older-Nikol'skii spaces $H^\alpha_\infty(\mathbb{I}^d)$ on the unit cube $\mathbb{I}^d:=[0,1]^d$ having mixed smoothness, by parametric manifolds. The approximation error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Dinh Dũng , Van Kien Nguyen

In this paper, we propose an approximating framework for analyzing parametric Markov models. Instead of computing complex rational functions encoding the reachability probability and the reward values of the parametric model, we exploit the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Ying Liu , Andrea Turrini , Moritz Hahn , Bai Xue , Lijun Zhang

We study minimization of a structured objective function, being the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator. Applications include image reconstruction problems with regularizers that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Axel Böhm , Stephen J. Wright

In some applications, one is interested in reconstructing a function $f$ from its Fourier series coefficients. The problem is that the Fourier series is slowly convergent if the function is non-periodic, or is non-smooth. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 David Levin

This paper describes a novel method to approximate the polynomial coefficients of regression functions, with particular interest on multi-dimensional classification. The derivation is simple, and offers a fast, robust classification…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-27 Péter Kövesárki

In much of the literature on function approximation by deep networks, the function is assumed to be defined on some known domain, such as a cube or a sphere. In practice, the data might not be dense on these domains, and therefore, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hrushikesh Mhaskar

We consider radial complex scaling/perfectly matched layer methods for scalar resonance problems in homogeneous exterior domains. We introduce a new abstract framework to analyze the convergence of domain truncations and discretizations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Martin Halla

We propose to approximate a (possibly discontinuous) multivariate function f (x) on a compact set by the partial minimizer arg miny p(x, y) of an appropriate polynomial p whose construction can be cast in a univariate sum of squares (SOS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Didier Henrion , Milan Korda , Jean-Bernard Lasserre

Fourier series multiscale method, a concise and efficient analytical approach for multiscale computation, will be developed out of this series of papers. The second paper is concerned with simultaneous approximation to functions and their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Weiming Sun , Zimao Zhang