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In this paper, we study the approximation problem for functions in the Gaussian-weighted Sobolev space $W^\alpha_p(\mathbb{R}^d, \gamma)$ of mixed smoothness $\alpha \in \mathbb{N}$ with error measured in the Gaussian-weighted space…

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We present two Monte Carlo sampling algorithms for probabilistic inference that guarantee polynomial-time convergence for a larger class of network than current sampling algorithms provide. These new methods are variants of the known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Malcolm Pradhan , Paul Dagum

Given a real symmetric positive semi-definite matrix E, and an approximation S that is a sum of n independent matrix-valued random variables, we present bounds on the relative error in S due to randomization. The bounds do not depend on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 John T. Holodnak , Ilse C. F. Ipsen , Ralph C. Smith

In this paper we give explicit constructions of point sets in the $s$ dimensional unit cube yielding quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms which achieve the optimal rate of convergence of the worst-case error for numerically integrating high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Josef Dick

We study the numerical integration problem for functions with infinitely many variables. The function spaces of integrands we consider are weighted reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with norms related to the ANOVA decomposition of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Josef Dick , Michael Gnewuch

We prove lower bounds for the error of optimal cubature formulae for $d$-variate functions from Besov spaces of mixed smoothness $B^{\alpha}_{p,\theta}({\mathbb G}^d)$ in the case $0 < p, \theta \le \infty$ and $\alpha > 1/p$, where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Dinh Dũng , Tino Ullrich

Quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms are studied for designing discrete approximations of two-stage linear stochastic programs. Their integrands are piecewise linear, but neither smooth nor lie in the function spaces considered for QMC error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-31 H. Heitsch , H. Leövey , W. Römisch

We study the numerical approximation of integrals over $\mathbb{R}^s$ with respect to the standard Gaussian measure for integrands which lie in certain Hermite spaces of functions. The decay rate of the associated sequence is specified by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Josef Dick , Christian Irrgeher , Gunther Leobacher , Friedrich Pillichshammer

In this paper, in a multivariate setting we derive near optimal rates of convergence in the minimax sense for estimating partial derivatives of the mean function for functional data observed under a fixed synchronous design over H\"older…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Max Berger , Hajo Holzmann

An adaptive regularization algorithm using inexact function and derivatives evaluations is proposed for the solution of composite nonsmooth nonconvex optimization. It is shown that this algorithm needs at most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 S. Gratton , E. Simon , Ph. L. Toint

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jingfan Xia , Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng

Randomized zeroth-order methods are classically analyzed in expectation, but a black-box Markov conversion can give misleading high-probability guarantees, in particular by forcing the finite-difference smoothing radius to shrink with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Haishan Ye

A trust-region algorithm is presented for finding approximate minimizers of smooth unconstrained functions whose values and derivatives are subject to random noise. It is shown that, under suitable probabilistic assumptions, the new method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

We study time harmonic acoustic scattering on large deviation rough random scatterers. Therein, the roughness of the scatterers is caused by a low Sobolev regularity in the covariance function of their deformation field. The motivation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Jürgen Dölz , Wei Huang , Michael Multerer

Bootstrap smoothed (bagged) estimators have been proposed as an improvement on estimators found after preliminary data-based model selection. Efron, 2014, derived a widely applicable formula for a delta method approximation to the standard…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-11 Paul Kabaila , Christeen Wijethunga

We investigate the numerical approximation of integrals over $\mathbb{R}^d$ equipped with the standard Gaussian measure $\gamma$ for integrands belonging to the Gaussian-weighted Sobolev spaces $W^\alpha_p(\mathbb{R}^d, \gamma)$ of mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Dinh Dũng , Van Kien Nguyen

We develop a worst-case evaluation complexity bound for trust-region methods in the presence of unbounded Hessian approximations. We use the algorithm of arXiv:2103.15993v3 as a model, which is designed for nonsmooth regularized problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Geoffroy Leconte , Dominique Orban

We address the approximation of functionals depending on a system of particles, described by stochastic differential equations (SDEs), in the mean-field limit when the number of particles approaches infinity. This problem is equivalent to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Raul Tempone

Let $\mathcal{A}(p)$ be the class consisting of functions $f$ that are holomorphic in $\ID\setminus \{p\}$, $p\in (0,1)$ possessing a simple pole at the point $z=p$ with nonzero residue and normalized by the condition $f(0)=0=f'(0)-1$. In…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Bappaditya Bhowmik , Firdoshi Parveen

We consider the class of convex minimization problems, composed of a self-concordant function, such as the $\log\det$ metric, a convex data fidelity term $h(\cdot)$ and, a regularizing -- possibly non-smooth -- function $g(\cdot)$. This…

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