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We exploit the idea to use the maximal-entropy method, successfully tested in information theory and statistical thermodynamics, to determine approximating function's coefficients and squared errors' weights simultaneously as output of one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Domenico Giordano , Felice Iavernaro

The problem of prediction in functional linear regression is conventionally addressed by reducing dimension via the standard principal component basis. In this paper we show that an alternative basis chosen through weighted least-squares,…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-02-20 Aurore Delaigle , Peter Hall , Tatiyana V. Apanasovich

We consider the problem of approximating an analytic function on a compact interval from its values at $M+1$ distinct points. When the points are equispaced, a recent result (the so-called impossibility theorem) has shown that the best…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Ben Adcock , Rodrigo Platte , Alexei Shadrin

The paper studies a geometrically robust least-squares problem that extends classical and norm-based robust formulations. Rather than minimizing residual error for fixed or perturbed data, we interpret least-squares as enforcing approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Shreyas Bharadwaj , Bamdev Mishra , Cyrus Mostajeran , Alberto Padoan , Jeremy Coulson , Ravi N. Banavar

Invariable step size based least-mean-square error (ISS-LMS) was considered as a very simple adaptive filtering algorithm and hence it has been widely utilized in many applications, such as adaptive channel estimation. It is well known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-29 Beiyi Liu , Guan Gui , Li Xu , Nobuhiro Shimoi

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

The least squares method provides the best-fit curve by minimizing the total squares error. In this work, we provide the modified least squares method based on the fractional orthogonal polynomials that belong to the space $M_{n}^{\lambda}…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Mani Mehra , Anatoly A. Alikhanov

This paper deals with tactics for fast computation in least squares regression in high dimensions. These tactics include: (a) the majorization-minimization (MM) principle, (b) smoothing by Moreau envelopes, and (c) the proximal distance…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-19 Qiang Heng , Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

We consider the problem of optimal recovery of an element $u$ of a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ from $m$ measurements obtained through known linear functionals on $\mathcal{H}$. Problems of this type are well studied \cite{MRW} under an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Peter Binev , Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , Ronald DeVore , Guergana Petrova , Przemyslaw Wojtaszczyk

Optimization problems with the objective function in the form of weighted sum and linear equality constraints are considered. Given that the number of local cost functions can be large as well as the number of constraints, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Sanja Rapajić , Luka Rutešić

Gradient boosting is a prediction method that iteratively combines weak learners to produce a complex and accurate model. From an optimization point of view, the learning procedure of gradient boosting mimics a gradient descent on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Erwan Fouillen , Claire Boyer , Maxime Sangnier

The classical iteratively reweighted least-squares (IRLS) algorithm aims to recover an unknown signal from linear measurements by performing a sequence of weighted least squares problems, where the weights are recursively updated at each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-06 Chiraag Kaushik , Justin Romberg , Vidya Muthukumar

We propose and analyze a weighted greedy scheme for computing deterministic sample configurations in multidimensional space for performing least-squares polynomial approximations on $L^2$ spaces weighted by a probability density function.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Ling Guo , Akil Narayan , Liang Yan , Tao Zhou

We consider the problem of learning an unknown, possibly nonlinear operator between separable Hilbert spaces from supervised data. Inputs are drawn from a prescribed probability measure on the input space, and outputs are (possibly noisy)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 John Turnage , Matthew Lowery , John Jakeman , Zachary Morrow , Akil Narayan , Varun Shankar

Least squares (LS) fitting is one of the most fundamental techniques in science and engineering. It is used to estimate parameters from multiple noisy observations. In many problems the parameters are known a-priori to be bounded integer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-05 Amir Leshem , Jacob Goldberger

The tuning parameter selection strategy for penalized estimation is crucial to identify a model that is both interpretable and predictive. However, popular strategies (e.g., minimizing average squared prediction error via cross-validation)…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-10 Julia Holter , Jonathan Stallrich

In this paper, we propose a low-rank approximation method based on discrete least-squares for the approximation of a multivariate function from random, noisy-free observations. Sparsity inducing regularization techniques are used within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Mathilde Chevreuil , Régis Lebrun , Anthony Nouy , Prashant Rai

The over-parameterized models attract much attention in the era of data science and deep learning. It is empirically observed that although these models, e.g. deep neural networks, over-fit the training data, they can still achieve small…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-27 Yue Xing , Qifan Song , Guang Cheng

Least squares approximation is a technique to find an approximate solution to a system of linear equations that has no exact solution. In a typical setting, one lets $n$ be the number of constraints and $d$ be the number of variables, with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Petros Drineas , Michael W. Mahoney , S. Muthukrishnan , Tamas Sarlos

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