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Approximating field variables and data vectors from sparse samples is a key challenge in computational science. Widely used methods such as gappy proper orthogonal decomposition and empirical interpolation rely on linear approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Paul Schwerdtner , Serkan Gugercin , Benjamin Peherstorfer

Solving sparse linear systems from discretized PDEs is challenging. Direct solvers have in many cases quadratic complexity (depending on geometry), while iterative solvers require problem dependent preconditioners to be robust and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Kai Yang , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

This paper investigates a general class of problems in which a lower bounded smooth convex function incorporating $\ell_{0}$ and $\ell_{2,0}$ regularization is minimized over a box constraint. Although such problems arise frequently in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li

We introduce a new concept of sparsity for the stochastic elliptic operator $-{\rm div}\left(a(x,\omega)\nabla(\cdot)\right)$, which reflects the compactness of its inverse operator in the stochastic direction and allows for spatially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Thomas Y. Hou , Pengfei Liu

In this work we approach the dual optimal reach-safe control problem using sparse approximations of Koopman operator. Matrix approximation of Koopman operator needs to solve a least-squares (LS) problem in the lifted function space, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Hongzhe Yu , Joseph Moyalan , Umesh Vaidya , Yongxin Chen

We develop a sparse multiscale operator-adapted wavelet decomposition-based finite element method (FEM) on unstructured polygonal mesh hierarchies obtained via a coarsening procedure. Our approach decouples different resolution levels,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Furkan Şık , F. L. Teixeira , B. Shanker

Sparse polynomial approximation has become indispensable for approximating smooth, high- or infinite-dimensional functions from limited samples. This is a key task in computational science and engineering, e.g., surrogate modelling in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

We consider the stable approximation of sparse solutions to non-linear operator equations by means of Tikhonov regularization with a subquadratic penalty term. Imposing certain assumptions, which for a linear operator are equivalent to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-12-06 Markus Grasmair , Markus Haltmeier , Otmar Scherzer

Often, when solving forward, inverse or data assimilation problems, only a part of the solution is needed. As a model, we consider the stationary diffusion problem. We demonstrate an algorithm that can compute only a part or a functional of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Alexander Litvinenko

We introduce a new interpretation of sparse variational approximations for Gaussian processes using inducing points, which can lead to more scalable algorithms than previous methods. It is based on decomposing a Gaussian process as a sum of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-27 Jiaxin Shi , Michalis K. Titsias , Andriy Mnih

The problem of approximating the covariance operator of the mild solution to a linear stochastic partial differential equation is considered. An integral equation involving the semigroup of the mild solution is derived and a general error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Mihály Kovács , Annika Lang , Andreas Petersson

Recent research has shown that performance in signal processing tasks can often be significantly improved by using signal models based on sparse representations, where a signal is approximated using a small number of elements from a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Adam S. Charles , Pierre Garrigues , Christopher J. Rozell

We derive computable error estimates for finite element approximations of linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDE) with rough stochastic coefficients. In this setting, the exact solutions contain high frequency content that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Eric Joseph Hall , Håkon Hoel , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy , Raúl Tempone

In this work, we study the problem of finding approximate, with minimum support set, solutions to matrix max-plus equations, which we call sparse approximate solutions. We show how one can obtain such solutions efficiently and in polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Nikos Tsilivis , Anastasios Tsiamis , Petros Maragos

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating simultaneously low-rank and row-wise sparse matrices from nested linear measurements where the linear operator consists of the product of a linear operator $\mathcal{W}$ and a matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

In this paper, we consider the problem of compressed sensing where the goal is to recover almost all the sparse vectors using a small number of fixed linear measurements. For this problem, we propose a novel partial hard-thresholding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Prateek Jain , Ambuj Tewari , Inderjit S. Dhillon

The CUR decomposition provides an approximation of a matrix $X$ that has low reconstruction error and that is sparse in the sense that the resulting approximation lies in the span of only a few columns of $X$. In this regard, it appears to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Jacob Bien , Ya Xu , Michael W. Mahoney

We consider model selection and estimation for partial spline models and propose a new regularization method in the context of smoothing splines. The regularization method has a simple yet elegant form, consisting of roughness penalty on…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-11-25 Guang Cheng , Hao Helen Zhang , Zuofeng Shang

We present estimators for a well studied statistical estimation problem: the estimation for the linear regression model with soft sparsity constraints ($\ell_q$ constraint with $0<q\leq1$) in the high-dimensional setting. We first present a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Li Zhang

In this paper we present the theoretical framework needed to justify the use of a kernel-based collocation method (meshfree approximation method) to estimate the solution of high-dimensional stochastic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Igor Cialenco , Gregory E. Fasshauer , Qi Ye