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We consider the approximate recovery of multivariate periodic functions from a discrete set of function values taken on a rank-$s$ integration lattice. The main result is the fact that any (non-)linear reconstruction algorithm taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Glenn Byrenheid , Lutz Kämmerer , Tino Ullrich , Toni Volkmer

This paper presents new quadrature rules for functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space using nodes drawn by a sampling algorithm known as randomly pivoted Cholesky. The resulting computational procedure compares favorably to previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Ethan N. Epperly , Elvira Moreno

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for solving a class of chance constrained optimization under non-parametric uncertainty. Our algorithm is built on the possibility of representing arbitrary distributions as functions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Bharath Gopalakrishnan , Arun Kumar Singh , K. Madhava Krishna , Dinesh Manocha

We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Francis Bach

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

Classical penalized likelihood regression problems deal with the case that the independent variables data are known exactly. In practice, however, it is common to observe data with incomplete covariate information. We are concerned with a…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-08-04 Xiwen Ma , Bin Dai , Ronald Klein , Barbara E. K. Klein , Kristine E. Lee , Grace Wahba

High dimensional integrals can be approximated well by quasi-Monte Carlo methods. However, determining the number of function values needed to obtain the desired accuracy is difficult without some upper bound on an appropriate semi-norm of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Fred J. Hickernell , Lluís Antoni Jiménez Rugama , Da Li

Many scientific studies collect data where the response and predictor variables are both functions of time, location, or some other covariate. Understanding the relationship between these functional variables is a common goal in these…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-12 Xiaoxiao Sun , Pang Du , Xiao Wang , Ping Ma

Sparse polynomial approximation has become indispensable for approximating smooth, high- or infinite-dimensional functions from limited samples. This is a key task in computational science and engineering, e.g., surrogate modelling in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper we address this issue for photoacoustic computed tomography in circular geometry. We investigate the Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Johannes Schwab , Sergiy Pereverzyev , Markus Haltmeier

We propose a hybrid resampling method to approximate finitely supported Wasserstein barycenters on large-scale datasets, which can be combined with any exact solver. Nonasymptotic bounds on the expected error of the objective value as well…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-28 Florian Heinemann , Axel Munk , Yoav Zemel

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 propose novel methods for approximate sampling recovery and integration of functions in the Freud-weighted Sobolev space $W^r_{p,w}(\mathbb{R})$. The approximation error of sampling recovery is measured in the norm of the Freud-weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Dinh Dũng

Optimal recovery is a mathematical framework for learning functions from observational data by adopting a worst-case perspective tied to model assumptions on the functions to be learned. Working in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Simon Foucart , Chunyang Liao

We consider the problem of recovering elements of a low-dimensional model from linear measurements. From signal and image processing to inverse problems in data science, this question has been at the center of many applications. Lately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Yann Traonmilin , Jean François Aujol , Antoine Guennec

Contrary to the traditional pursuit of research on nonuniform sampling of bandlimited signals, the objective of the present paper is not to find sampling conditions that permit perfect reconstruction, but to perform the best possible signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Nguyen T. Thao , Dominik Rzepka , Marek Miskowicz

When data is collected in an adaptive manner, even simple methods like ordinary least squares can exhibit non-normal asymptotic behavior. As an undesirable consequence, hypothesis tests and confidence intervals based on asymptotic normality…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Koulik Khamaru , Yash Deshpande , Tor Lattimore , Lester Mackey , Martin J. Wainwright

In this paper, a least-squares finite element method for scalar nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws is proposed and studied. The approach is based on a formulation that utilizes an appropriate Helmholtz decomposition of the flux vector and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Thomas A. Manteuffel

The popular cubic smoothing spline estimate of a regression function arises as the minimizer of the penalized sum of squares $\sum_j(Y_j - {\mu}(t_j))^2 + {\lambda}\int_a^b [{\mu}"(t)]^2 dt$, where the data are $t_j,Y_j$, $j=1,..., n$. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-09 Nancy Heckman

Standard H-infinity/H2 robust control and analysis tools operate on uncertain parameters assumed to vary independently within prescribed bounds. This paper extends their capabilities in the presence of constraints coupling these parameters…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ervan Kassarian , Francesco Sanfedino , Daniel Alazard , Andrea Marrazza