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Standard uniform convergence results bound the generalization gap of the expected loss over a hypothesis class. The emergence of risk-sensitive learning requires generalization guarantees for functionals of the loss distribution beyond the…

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We consider bandit optimization of a smooth reward function, where the goal is cumulative regret minimization. This problem has been studied for $\alpha$-H\"older continuous (including Lipschitz) functions with $0<\alpha\leq 1$. Our main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yusha Liu , Yining Wang , Aarti Singh

We establish asymptotic estimates for the least upper bounds of approximations in the uniform metric by Fourier sums of order $n-1$ of classes of $2\pi$-periodic Weyl--Nagy differentiable functions, $W^r_{\beta,p}, 1\le p\le \infty,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-02-08 A. S. Serdyuk , I. V. Sokolenko

Soft extrapolation refers to the problem of recovering a function from its samples, multiplied by a fast-decaying window and perturbed by an additive noise, over an interval which is potentially larger than the essential support of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Dmitry Batenkov , Laurent Demanet , Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar

The softmax function is a basic operator in machine learning and optimization, used in classification, attention mechanisms, reinforcement learning, game theory, and problems involving log-sum-exp terms. Existing robustness guarantees of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pravin Nair

We consider the problem of approximating a smooth function from finitely-many pointwise samples using $\ell^1$ minimization techniques. In the first part of this paper, we introduce an infinite-dimensional approach to this problem. Three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Ben Adcock

This paper investigates robust versions of the general empirical risk minimization algorithm, one of the core techniques underlying modern statistical methods. Success of the empirical risk minimization is based on the fact that for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-17 Stanislav Minsker , Timothée Mathieu

We provide an abstract multivariate central limit theorem with the Lindeberg-type error bounded in terms of Lipschitz functions (Wasserstein 1-distance) or functions with bounded second or third derivatives. The result is proved by means of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Martin Raič

We study a functional linear regression model that deals with functional responses and allows for both functional covariates and high-dimensional vector covariates. The proposed model is flexible and nests several functional regression…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Daren Wang , Zifeng Zhao , Yi Yu , Rebecca Willett

We analyze the constant step size subgradient method on nonsmooth, nonconvex functions. We identify geometric assumptions on the objective function under which i) its domain admits a partition (stratification) into smooth manifolds (strata)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Evgenii Chzhen , Sholom Schechtman

We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Endre Süli

We propose a framework for computing, optimizing and integrating with respect to a smooth marginal likelihood in statistical models that involve high-dimensional parameters/latent variables and continuous low-dimensional hyperparameters.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Timothée Stumpf-Fétizon , Jonathan Weare

Several new inequalities for moduli of smoothness and errors of the best approximation of a function and its derivatives in the spaces $L_p$, $0<p<1$, are obtained. For example, it is shown that for any $0<p<1$ and $k,\,r\in \mathbb{N}$ one…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Yurii Kolomoitsev

A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to estimate a function $f$ from possibly noisy observations of its point samples. The goal is to design a numerical algorithm to construct an approximation $\hat f$ to $f$ in a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Ronald DeVore , Robert D. Nowak , Rahul Parhi , Guergana Petrova , Jonathan W. Siegel

In this paper we study minimax and adaptation rates in general isotonic regression. For uniform deterministic and random designs in $[0,1]^d$ with $d\ge 2$ and $N(0,1)$ noise, the minimax rate for the $\ell_2$ risk is known to be bounded…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Hang Deng , Cun-Hui Zhang

This article is devoted to long-time weak approximations of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) evolving in a bounded domain $\mathcal{D} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \leq 3$, with non-globally Lipschitz and possibly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Yingsong Jiang , Xiaojie Wang

In this paper we approximate high-dimensional functions $f\colon\mathbb T^d\to\mathbb C$ by sparse trigonometric polynomials based on function evaluations. Recently it was shown that a dimension-incremental sparse Fourier transform (SFT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Felix Bartel , Fabian Taubert

The data functions that are studied in the course of functional data analysis are assembled from discrete data, and the level of smoothing that is used is generally that which is appropriate for accurate approximation of the conceptually…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Raymond J. Carroll , Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall

Let $X$ be a separable real Hilbert space. We show that for every Lipschitz function $f:X\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, and for every $\epsilon>0$, there exists a Lipschitz, real analytic function $g:X\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-23 D. Azagra , R. Fry , L. Keener

We present here a new method for approximating functions defined on superreflexive Banach spaces by differentiable functions with $\alpha$-H\"older derivatives (for some $0<\alpha\leq 1$). The smooth approximation is given by means of an…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Manuel Cepedello Boiso