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Using tools from the theory of operator ideals and s-numbers, we develop a general approach to transfer estimates for $L_2$ -approximation of Sobolev functions into estimates for $L_\infty$-approximation, with precise control of all…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Fernando Cobos , Thomas Kühn , Winfried Sickel

An important observation in compressed sensing is that the $\ell_0$ minimizer of an underdetermined linear system is equal to the $\ell_1$ minimizer when there exists a sparse solution vector and a certain restricted isometry property…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Alex Townsend

We study multivariate integration and approximation for functions belonging to a weighted reproducing kernel Hilbert space based on half-period cosine functions in the worst-case setting. The weights in the norm of the function space depend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Christian Irrgeher , Peter Kritzer , Friedrich Pillichshammer

We study approximation by arbitrary linear combinations of $n$ translates of a single function of periodic functions. We construct some methods of this approximation for functions in a class induced by the convolution with a given function,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Dinh Dũng , Charles A. Micchelli , Vu Nhat Huy

We consider the problem of approximating a function from $L^2$ by an element of a given $m$-dimensional space $V_m$, associated with some feature map $\boldsymbol{\varphi}$, using evaluations of the function at random points $x_1,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Anthony Nouy , Bertrand Michel

We consider the problem of estimating a function defined over $n$ locations on a $d$-dimensional grid (having all side lengths equal to $n^{1/d}$). When the function is constrained to have discrete total variation bounded by $C_n$, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala , Yu-Xiang Wang , Ryan Tibshirani

We study the best approximation problem: \[ \displaystyle \min_{\alpha\in \mathbb R^m}\max_{1\leq i\leq n}\left|y_i -\sum_{j=1}^m \alpha_j \Gamma_j ({\bf x}_i) \right|. \] Here: $\Gamma:=\left\{\Gamma_1,...,\Gamma_m\right\}$ is a list of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Steven B. Damelin , Michael Werman

We construct a least squares approximation method for the recovery of complex-valued functions from a reproducing kernel Hilbert space on $D \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. The nodes are drawn at random for the whole class of functions and the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Lutz Kämmerer , Tino Ullrich , Toni Volkmer

A loss function measures the discrepancy between the true values (observations) and their estimated fits, for a given instance of data. A loss function is said to be proper (unbiased, Fisher consistent) if the fits are defined over a unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Amichai Painsky , Gregory W. Wornell

Infinite-dimensional, holomorphic functions have been studied in detail over the last several decades, due to their relevance to parametric differential equations and computational uncertainty quantification. The approximation of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Ben Adcock , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

The Sobolev space $H^{\varsigma}(\mathbb{R}^{d})$, where $\varsigma > d/2$, is an important function space that has many applications in various areas of research. Attributed to the inertia of a measurement instrument, it is desirable in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Youfa Li , Deguang Han , Shouzhi Yang , Ganji Huang

In this work, we consider the approximate reconstruction of high-dimensional periodic functions based on sampling values. As sampling schemes, we utilize so-called reconstructing multiple rank-1 lattices, which combine several preferable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Lutz Kämmerer , Toni Volkmer

Given $n$ samples of a function $f\colon D\to\mathbb C$ in random points drawn with respect to a measure $\varrho_S$ we develop theoretical analysis of the $L_2(D, \varrho_T)$-approximation error. For a parituclar choice of $\varrho_S$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Felix Bartel

We study the worst-case approximation of multivariate periodic functions from the weighted Korobov space $H_{d,\alpha,\gamma}$ with smoothness $\alpha>1/2$ in the Lebesgue norm $L_p([0,1]^d)$ for $1\le p\le\infty$. We analyze a \emph{median…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Zexin Pan , Mou Cai , Josef Dick , Takashi Goda , Peter Kritzer

We study integration and $L_2$-approximation on countable tensor products of function spaces of increasing smoothness. We obtain upper and lower bounds for the minimal errors, which are sharp in many cases including, e.g., Korobov, Walsh,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 M. Gnewuch , M. Hefter , A. Hinrichs , K. Ritter , G. W. Wasilkowski

Gelfand numbers represent a measure for the information complexity which is given by the number of information needed to approximate functions in a subset of a normed space with an error less than $\varepsilon$. More precisely, Gelfand…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Van Kien Nguyen

Many machine learning applications require learning a function with a small worst-case error over the entire input domain, that is, the $L_\infty$-error, whereas most existing theoretical works only guarantee recovery in average errors such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Kefan Dong , Tengyu Ma

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 Massimo Fornasier , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

A seminal result of Nisan and Szegedy (STOC, 1992) shows that for any total Boolean function, the degree of the real polynomial that computes the function, and the minimal degree of a real polynomial that point-wise approximates the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Arkadev Chattopadhyay , Yogesh Dahiya , Shachar Lovett

A new representation is proposed for functions in a Sobolev space with dominating mixed smoothness on an $N$-dimensional hyperrectangle. In particular, it is shown that these functions can be expressed in terms of their highest-order mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Declan S. Jagt , Matthew M. Peet