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In this paper, we introduce a method known as polynomial frame approximation for approximating smooth, multivariate functions defined on irregular domains in $d$ dimensions, where $d$ can be arbitrary. This method is simple, and relies only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Ben Adcock , Daan Huybrechs

We study the Multiple-try Metropolis algorithm using the framework of Poincar\'e inequalities. We describe the Multiple-try Metropolis as an auxiliary variable implementation of a resampling approximation to an ideal Metropolis--Hastings…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-18 Rocco Caprio , Sam Power , Andi Q. Wang

We present two approximate versions of the proximal subgradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions (not necessarily differentiable). The algorithms involve, at each iteration, inexact evaluations of the proximal operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Reinier Díaz Millán , Majela Pentón Machado

Given a smooth positive function $f$ defined on the unit circle satisfying a simple condition, we obtain a Poincar\'{e}-type inequality for an arbitrary function $u$ whose weighted average with respect to $f$ is zero. The proof uses…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Nan Ye , Xiang Ma

We present effective numerical algorithms for locally recovering unknown governing differential equations from measurement data. We employ a set of standard basis functions, e.g., polynomials, to approximate the governing equation with high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Kailiang Wu , Dongbin Xiu

We present a method for constructing global analytical expressions that approximate a function over its entire range. These approximations not only mirror the original function as accurately as desired, but are purposefully created to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Aviv Orly

Operator convex functions defined on the positive half-line play a prominent role in the theory of quantum information, where they are used to define quantum $f$-divergences. Such functions admit integral representations in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Oisín Faust , Hamza Fawzi

Submodular function minimization is well studied, and existing algorithms solve it exactly or up to arbitrary accuracy. However, in many applications, such as structured sparse learning or batch Bayesian optimization, the objective function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Marwa El Halabi , Stefanie Jegelka

The theory behind compressive sampling pre-supposes that a given sequence of observations may be exactly represented by a linear combination of a small number of basis vectors. In practice, however, even small deviations from an exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Jonathan M. Nichols , Albert K. Oh , Rebecca M. Willett

With direct and simple proofs, we establish Poincar\'{e} type inequalities (including Poincar\'{e} inequalities, weak Poincar\'{e} inequalities and super Poincar\'{e} inequalities), entropy inequalities and Beckner-type inequalities for…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Jian Wang

This note addresses the question of optimally estimating a linear functional of an object acquired through linear observations corrupted by random noise, where optimality pertains to a worst-case setting tied to a symmetric, convex, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Simon Foucart , Grigoris Paouris

Functions of one or more variables are usually approximated with a basis: a complete, linearly-independent system of functions that spans a suitable function space. The topic of this paper is the numerical approximation of functions using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Ben Adcock , Daan Huybrechs

We consider the problem of minimizing a difference-of-convex (DC) function, which can be written as the sum of a smooth convex function with Lipschitz gradient, a proper closed convex function and a continuous possibly nonsmooth concave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Tianxiang Liu , Ting Kei Pong , Akiko Takeda

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

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In this paper, we propose a method to approximate the Gaussian function on ${\mathbb R}$ by a short cosine sum. We generalise and extend the differential approximation method proposed in [4, 40] to approximate $\mathrm{e}^{-t^{2}/2\sigma}$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Nadiia Derevianko , Gerlind Plonka

Convex and nonconvex finite-sum minimization arises in many scientific computing and machine learning applications. Recently, first-order and second-order methods where objective functions, gradients and Hessians are approximated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Stefania Bellavia , Natasa Krejic , Benedetta Morini

Beckner's inequality is a family of inequalities that interpolates the two fundamental functional inequalities, the logarithmic Sobolev and Poincar\'e's inequalities. It is parametrized by exponent $p\in (1,2]$ and it implies the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Yuu Hariya

For optimization on large-scale data, exactly calculating its solution may be computationally difficulty because of the large size of the data. In this paper we consider subsampled optimization for fast approximating the exact solution. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-11 Rong Zhu , Jiming Jiang

Assume that samples of a filtered version of a function in a shift-invariant space are avalaible. This work deals with the existence of a sampling formula involving these samples and having reconstruction functions with compact support.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-13 A. G. Garcia , M. A. Hernandez-Medina , G. Perez-Villalon

Models based on approximation capabilities have recently been studied in the context of Optimal Recovery. These models, however, are not compatible with overparametrization, since model- and data-consistent functions could then be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Simon Foucart