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The paradigm of differentiable programming has significantly enhanced the scope of machine learning via the judicious use of gradient-based optimization. However, standard differentiable programming methods (such as autodiff) typically…

Continuous spline functions are defined as piecewise polynomials on the faces of a polyhedral complex that agree on the intersections of two faces. Splines are used in approximation theory and numerical analysis, with applications in data…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Shaheen Nazir , Anne Schilling , Julianna Tymoczko

This paper discusses the dimensions of the spline spaces over T-meshes with lower degree. Two new concepts are proposed: extension of T-meshes and spline spaces with homogeneous boundary conditions. In the dimension analysis, the key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-17 Jiansong Deng , Falai Chen , Liangbing Jin

In many classification problems it is desirable to output well-calibrated probabilities on the different classes. We propose a robust, non-parametric method of calibrating probabilities called SplineCalib that utilizes smoothing splines to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Brian Lucena

A mixed basis approach based on density functional theory is employed for low dimensional systems. The basis functions are taken to be plane waves for the periodic direction multiplied by B-spline polynomials in the non-periodic direction.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chung-Yuan Ren , Chen-Shiung Hsue , Yia-Chung Chang

We consider a class of non-polynomial spline spaces over T-meshes, that is, of spaces locally spanned both by polynomial and by suitably-chosen non-polynomial functions, which we will refer to as generalized splines over T-meshes. For such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Cesare Bracco , Fabio Roman

The paper is concerned with three types of cubic splines over a triangulation that are characterized by three degrees of freedom associated with each vertex of the triangulation. The splines differ in computational complexity, polynomial…

We introduce here Cartesian splines or, for short, C-splines. C- splines are piecewise polynomials which are defined on adjacent Cartesian coordinate systems and are Cr continuous throughout. The Cr continuity is enforced by constraining…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-23 H. R. N. van Erp , R. O. Linger , P. H. A. J. M. van Gelder

Tensor B-spline methods are a high-performance alternative to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper gives an overview on the principles of Tensor B-spline methodology, shows their use and analyzes their performance in…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Dmytro Shulga , Oleksii Morozov , Volker Roth , Felix Friedrich , Patrick Hunziker

The paper proposes, an algorithm to produce novel m-point (for any integer m>=2) binary non-stationary subdivision scheme. It has been developed using uniform trigonometric B-spline basis functions and smoothness is being analyzed using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Shahid S. Siddiqi , Muhammad Younis

Multivariate B-splines and Non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS) lack adaptivity due to their tensor product structure. Truncated hierarchical B-splines (THB-splines) provide a solution for this. THB-splines organize the parameter space…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Andreas Grendas , Benjamin Marussig

In this paper we present a method for knot insertion and degree elevation of generalized B-splines (GB-splines) via the local representation of these curves as piecewise functions. The use of local structures makes the refinement routines…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Ian D. Henriksen , Emily J. Evans

We analyze the space of geometrically continuous piecewise polynomial functions or splines for quadrangular and triangular patches with arbitrary topology and general rational transition maps. To define these spaces of G 1 spline functions,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Bernard Mourrain , Raimundas Vidunas , Nelly Villamizar

This article introduces a functional method for lower-dimensional smooth representations in terms of time-varying dissimilarities. The method incorporates dissimilarity representation in multidimensional scaling and smoothness approach of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-02 Liting Li

The P-splines of Eilers and Marx (1996) combine a B-spline basis with a discrete quadratic penalty on the basis coefficients, to produce a reduced rank spline like smoother. P-splines have three properties that make them very popular as…

Computation · Statistics 2016-05-10 Simon N. Wood

The paper is devoted to problem of spline approximation. A new method of nodes location for curves and surfaces computer construction by means of B-splines and results of simulink-modeling is presented. The advantages of this paper is that…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Annapurna Sharma , Hakimjon Zaynidinov , Hoon Jae Lee

In this paper, we develop approximation error estimates as well as corresponding inverse inequalities for B-splines of maximum smoothness, where both the function to be approximated and the approximation error are measured in standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Stefan Takacs , Thomas Takacs

Reachable Minimally supported (RM) B-splines have been recently introduced as a novel B-spline--like basis. They feature local linear independence and admit a fast de Boor--like evaluation algorithm. These properties make them particularly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Francesco Patrizi

A procedure for the construction and the classification of multilattices in arbitrary dimension is proposed. The algorithm allows to determine explicitly the location of the points of a multilattice given its space group, and to determine…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 Giuliana Indelicato

Based on spline manifolds we introduce and study a mathematical framework for analysis-suitable unstructured B-spline spaces. In this setting the parameter domain has a manifold structure, which allows for the definition of function spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Giancarlo Sangalli , Thomas Takacs , Rafael Vázquez