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The problem of resolving the fine details of a signal from its coarse scale measurements or, as it is commonly referred to in the literature, the super-resolution problem arises naturally in engineering and physics in a variety of settings.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Tamir Bendory , Shai Dekel , Arie Feuer

We introduce two versions of a new sketch for approximately embedding the Gaussian kernel into Euclidean inner product space. These work by truncating infinite expansions of the Gaussian kernel, and carefully invoking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Jeff M. Phillips , Wai Ming Tai

Hilbertian kernel methods and their positive semidefinite kernels have been extensively used in various fields of applied mathematics and machine learning, owing to their several equivalent characterizations. We here unveil an analogy with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Stéphane Gaubert

In this paper, applied strictly monotonic increasing scaled maps, a kind of well-conditioned linear barycentric rational interpolations are proposed to approximate functions of singularities at the origin, such as $x^\alpha$ for $\alpha \in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Desong Kong , Shuhuang Xiang

In this paper, we deal with several aspects of the universal Frolov cubature method, that is known to achieve optimal asymptotic convergence rates in a broad range of function spaces. Even though every admissible lattice has this favorable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Christopher Kacwin , Jens Oettershagen , Mario Ullrich , Tino Ullrich

We study a variant of the median problem for a collection of point sets in high dimensions. This generalizes the geometric median as well as the (probabilistic) smallest enclosing ball (pSEB) problems. Our main objective and motivation is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Amer Krivošija , Alexander Munteanu

A numerical method optimizing the coefficients of the semi empirical mass formula or those of similar mass formulas is presented. The optimization is based on the least-squares adjustments method and leads to the resolution of a linear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Benyoucef Mohammed-Azizi , Hadj Mouloudj

Interface dynamics in two-dimensional systems with a maximal number of conservation laws gives an accurate theoretical model for many physical processes, from the hydrodynamics of immiscible, viscous flows (zero surface-tension limit of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-07-17 Ferenc Balogh , Razvan Teodorescu

Recent cosmological observations have achieved high-precision measurements of the Universe's expansion history, prompting the use of nonparametric methods such as Gaussian processes (GP) regression. We apply GP regression for reconstructing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jia-yan Jiang , Kang Jiao , Tong-Jie Zhang

Despite a large corpus of recent work on scaling up Gaussian processes, a stubborn trade-off between computational speed, prediction and uncertainty quantification accuracy, and customizability persists. This is because the vast majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Marcus M. Noack , Mark D. Risser , Hengrui Luo , Vardaan Tekriwal , Ronald J. Pandolfi

Unitary best approximation to the exponential function on an interval on the imaginary axis has been introduced recently. In the present work two algorithms are considered to compute this best approximant: an algorithm based on rational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Tobias Jawecki

Gaussian process modeling is a standard tool for building emulators for computer experiments, which are usually used to study deterministic functions, for example, a solution to a given system of partial differential equations. This work…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Wenjia Wang

The kernel interpolant in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space is optimal in the worst-case sense among all approximations of a function using the same set of function values. In this paper, we compare two search criteria to construct lattice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Frances Y. Kuo , Weiwen Mo , Dirk Nuyens , Ian H. Sloan , Abirami Srikumar

In this paper, we study the polynomial optimization problem of multi-forms over the intersection of the multi-spheres and the nonnegative orthants. This class of problems is NP-hard in general, and includes the problem of finding the best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Shenglong Hu , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

One way of getting insight into non-Gaussian measures, posed on infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, is to first obtain best fit Gaussian approximations, which are more amenable to numerical approximation. These Gaussians can then be used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Gideon Simpson , Daniel Watkins

Despite their many appealing properties, kernel methods are heavily affected by the curse of dimensionality. For instance, in the case of inner product kernels in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) norm is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Michael Celentano , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Andrea Montanari

The proximal point algorithm is a widely used tool for solving a variety of convex optimization problems such as finding zeros of maximally monotone operators, fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, as well as minimizing convex functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Andrei Sipos

Polynomial reproduction plays a relevant role in deriving error estimates for various approximation schemes. Local reproduction in a quasi-uniform setting is a significant factor in the estimation of error and the assessment of stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Stefano De Marchi , Giacomo Cappellazzo

We consider a discrete best approximation problem formulated in the framework of tropical algebra, which deals with the theory and applications of algebraic systems with idempotent operations. Given a set of samples of input and output of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Nikolai Krivulin

For objects belonging to a known model set and observed through a prescribed linear process, we aim at determining methods to recover linear quantities of these objects that are optimal from a worst-case perspective. Working in a Hilbert…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Simon Foucart , Chunyang Liao