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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Petra Weidner

In this note functions that transform open segments of a linear space into open segments of another linear space are studied and characterized. Assuming that the range is non-collinear, it is proved that such a map can always be expressed…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Zsolt Páles

We introduce and investigate a new generalized convexity notion for functions called prox-convexity. The proximity operator of such a function is single-valued and firmly nonexpansive. We provide examples of (strongly) quasiconvex, weakly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Sorin-Mihai Grad , Felipe Lara

We consider the problems of \emph{learning} and \emph{testing} real-valued convex functions over Gaussian space. Despite the extensive study of function convexity across mathematics, statistics, and computer science, its learnability and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Renato Ferreira Pinto , Cassandra Marcussen , Elchanan Mossel , Shivam Nadimpalli

While machine learning (ML) architectures have evolved rapidly to account for complex data, loss functions like cross-entropy remain mostly structure-agnostic in many real-world applications. However, the `class-symmetric' nature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yasser Taha , Grégoire Montavon , Nils Körber

We introduce and study a new class of generalized convex functions termed star quasiconvex functions. This class includes convex, star-convex, quasiconvex, quasar-convex, and positively homogeneous functions of any degree $p>0$ as special…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Phan Quoc Khanh , Felipe Lara

We prove bounds for the covering numbers of classes of convex functions and convex sets in Euclidean space. Previous results require the underlying convex functions or sets to be uniformly bounded. We relax this assumption and replace it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Adityanand Guntuboyina

In the paper, we introduce the generalized convex function on fractal sets of real line numbers and study the properties of the generalized convex function. Based on these properties, we establish the generalized Jensen inequality and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Huixia Mo , Xin Sui , Dongyan Yu

The classical perspective of a function is a construction which transforms a convex function into one that is jointly convex with respect to an auxiliary scaling variable. Motivated by applications in several areas of applied analysis, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Patrick L. Combettes , Francisco J. Silva

It is known that, in finite dimensions, the support function of a compact convex set with non empty interior is differentiable excepting the origin if and only if the set is strictly convex. In this paper we realize a thorough study of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-07 C. Zalinescu

We construct a class of bounded domains, on which the squeezing function is not uniformly bounded from below near a smooth and pseudoconvex boundary point.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-04-11 John Erik Fornaess , Feng Rong

In this paper, we define a soft somewhat open set using the soft interior operator. We study main properties the class of soft somewhat open sets that is contained in the class soft somewhere dense sets. Then, we introduce the classes of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Zanyar A. Ameen , Baravan A. Asaad , Tareq M. Al-shami

A new class of convex functions called functions, Young functions, strong Young functions and Orlicz functions are introduced by relaxing the definitions of functions, Young functions, strong Young functions and Orlicz functions. Then, new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Abdulhameed Qahtan Abbood Altai , Nada Mohammed Abbas Alsafar

In this paper, we present difference of convex algorithms for solving bilevel programs in which the upper level objective functions are difference of convex functions, and the lower level programs are fully convex. This nontrivial class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Jane J. Ye , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

In discrete convex analysis, the scaling and proximity properties for the class of L$^\natural$-convex functions were established more than a decade ago and have been used to design efficient minimization algorithms. For the larger class of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Satoko Moriguchi , Kazuo Murota , Akihisa Tamura , Fabio Tardella

A d.c. (delta-convex) function on a normed linear space is a function representable as a difference of two continuous convex functions. We show that an infinite dimensional analogue of Hartman's theorem on stability of d.c. functions under…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-06-06 L. Vesely , L. Zajicek

Convex sets appear in various mathematical theories, and are used to define notions such as convex functions and hulls. As an abstraction from the usual definition of convex sets in vector spaces, we formalize in Coq an intrinsic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Reynald Affeldt , Jacques Garrigue , Takafumi Saikawa

This paper considers projection and convolution operations for integrally convex functions, which constitute a fundamental function class in discrete convex analysis. It is shown that the class of integrally convex functions is stable under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Satoko Moriguchi , Kazuo Murota

Integrally convex functions constitute a fundamental function class in discrete convex analysis, including M-convex functions, L-convex functions, and many others. This paper aims at a rather comprehensive survey of recent results on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Kazuo Murota , Akihisa Tamura

In this paper, we state some characterizations of $h$-convex function is defined on a convex set in a linear space. By doing so, we extend the Jensen-Mercer inequality for $h$-convex function. We will also define $h$-convex function for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 M. Abbasi , A. Morassaei , F. Mirzapour