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We propose and analyse numerical algorithms based on weighted least squares for the approximation of a real-valued function on a general bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. Given any $n$-dimensional approximation space $V_n…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Giovanni Migliorati

We consider the problem of reconstructing an unknown function $f$ on a domain $X$ from samples of $f$ at $n$ randomly chosen points with respect to a given measure $\rho_X$. Given a sequence of linear spaces $(V_m)_{m>0}$ with ${\rm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Albert Cohen , Mark A. Davenport , Dany Leviatan

This paper investigates the stability of the least squares approximation $P_m^n$ within the univariate polynomial space of degree $m$, denoted by ${\mathbb P}_m$. The approximation $P_m^n$ entails identifying a polynomial in ${\mathbb P}_m$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Zhiqiang Xu , Xinyue Zhang

Let us assume that $f$ is a continuous function defined on the unit ball of $\mathbb R^d$, of the form $f(x) = g (A x)$, where $A$ is a $k \times d$ matrix and $g$ is a function of $k$ variables for $k \ll d$. We are given a budget $m \in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-18 Massimo Fornasier , Karin Schnass , Jan Vybiral

In approximation of functions based on point values, least-squares methods provide more stability than interpolation, at the expense of increasing the sampling budget. We show that near-optimal approximation error can nevertheless be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Abdellah Chkifa , Matthieu Dolbeault

In recent years, the use of sparse recovery techniques in the approximation of high-dimensional functions has garnered increasing interest. In this work we present a survey of recent progress in this emerging topic. Our main focus is on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Clayton G. Webster

In this work, we discuss the problem of approximating a multivariate function by discrete least squares projection onto a polynomial space using a specially designed deterministic point set. The independent variables of the function are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Tao Zhou , Akil Narayan , Zhiqiang Xu

In this work, we propose a novel sampling method for Design of Experiments. This method allows to sample such input values of the parameters of a computational model for which the constructed surrogate model will have the least possible…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-03 V. P. Zankin , G. V. Ryzhakov , I. V. Oseledets

We consider the fundamental learning problem of estimating properties of distributions over large domains. Using a novel piecewise-polynomial approximation technique, we derive the first unified methodology for constructing sample- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Yi Hao , Alon Orlitsky

The sparse polynomial approximation of continuous functions has emerged as a prominent area of interest in function approximation theory in recent years. A key challenge within this domain is the accurate estimation of approximation errors.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Renzhong Feng , Bowen Zhang

This work proposes and analyzes a compressed sensing approach to polynomial approximation of complex-valued functions in high dimensions. Of particular interest is the setting where the target function is smooth, characterized by a rapidly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Abdellah Chkifa , Nick Dexter , Hoang Tran , Clayton G. Webster

{\em Multi-objective samples} are powerful and versatile summaries of large data sets. For a set of keys $x\in X$ and associated values $f_x \geq 0$, a weighted sample taken with respect to $f$ allows us to approximate {\em segment-sum…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Edith Cohen

Finding suitable points for multivariate polynomial interpolation and approximation is a challenging task. Yet, despite this challenge, there has been tremendous research dedicated to this singular cause. In this paper, we begin by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Pranay Seshadri , Gianluca Iaccarino , Tiziano Ghisu

This paper discusses a methodology for determining a functional representation of a random process from a collection of scattered pointwise samples. The present work specifically focuses onto random quantities lying in a high dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Lionel Mathelin

We want to approximate general multivariate probability density functions by deterministic sample sets. For optimal sampling, the closeness to the given continuous density has to be assessed. This is a difficult challenge in multivariate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Uwe D. Hanebeck

Approximating a manifold-valued function from samples of input-output pairs consists of modeling the relationship between an input from a vector space and an output on a Riemannian manifold. We propose a function approximation method that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Hang Wang , Raf Vandebril , Joeri Van der Veken , Nick Vannieuwenhoven

This paper is concerned with the approximation of a function $u$ in a given approximation space $V_m$ of dimension $m$ from evaluations of the function at $n$ suitably chosen points. The aim is to construct an approximation of $u$ in $V_m$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Cécile Haberstich , Anthony Nouy , Guillaume Perrin

In this work, we propose to tackle the problem of domain generalization in the context of \textit{insufficient samples}. Instead of extracting latent feature embeddings based on deterministic models, we propose to learn a domain-invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kecheng Chen , Elena Gal , Hong Yan , Haoliang Li

Subsampling is an efficient method to deal with massive data. In this paper, we investigate the optimal subsampling for linear quantile regression when the covariates are functions. The asymptotic distribution of the subsampling estimator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Qian Yan , Hanyu Li , Chengmei Niu

We consider approximation problems for a special space of d variate functions. We show that the problems have small number of active variables, as it has been postulated in the past using concentration of measure arguments. We also show…

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