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We give the first polynomial-time algorithm for performing linear or polynomial regression resilient to adversarial corruptions in both examples and labels. Given a sufficiently large (polynomial-size) training set drawn i.i.d. from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Adam Klivans , Pravesh K. Kothari , Raghu Meka

We present a new algorithm and the corresponding convergence analysis for the regularization of linear inverse problems with sparsity constraints, applied to a new generalized sparsity promoting functional. The algorithm is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Sergey Voronin , Ingrid Daubechies

For a class $F$ of complex-valued functions on a set $D$, we denote by $g_n(F)$ its sampling numbers, i.e., the minimal worst-case error on $F$, measured in $L_2$, that can be achieved with a recovery algorithm based on $n$ function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Matthieu Dolbeault , David Krieg , Mario Ullrich

We study integration and $L^2$-approximation in the worst-case setting for deterministic linear algorithms based on function evaluations. The underlying function space is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space with a Gaussian kernel of tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Michael Gnewuch , Klaus Ritter , Robin Rüßmann

Weighted least squares polynomial approximation uses random samples to determine projections of functions onto spaces of polynomials. It has been shown that, using an optimal distribution of sample locations, the number of samples required…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Fabio Nobile , Raúl Tempone , Sören Wolfers

We study multivariate $L_2$-approximation for a weighted Korobov space of analytic periodic functions for which the Fourier coefficients decay exponentially fast. The weights are defined, in particular, in terms of two sequences…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-27 Josef Dick , Peter Kritzer , Friedrich Pillichshammer , Henryk Woźniakowski

While leverage score sampling provides powerful tools for approximating solutions to large least squares problems, the cost of computing exact scores and sampling often prohibits practical application. This paper addresses this challenge by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Osman Asif Malik , Yiming Xu , Nuojin Cheng , Stephen Becker , Alireza Doostan , Akil Narayan

We studied linear weighted sampling algorithms and their optimality for approximate recovery of functions with mixed smoothness on $\mathbb{R}^d$ from a set of $n$ their sampled values. Functions to be recovered are in weighted Sobolev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Dinh Dũng

We study the functional linear regression model with a scalar response and a Hilbert space-valued predictor, a canonical example of an ill-posed inverse problem. We show that the functional partial least squares (PLS) estimator attains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Andrii Babii , Marine Carrasco , Idriss Tsafack

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 Massimo Fornasier , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Functions with discontinuities appear in many applications such as image reconstruction, signal processing, optimal control problems, interface problems, engineering applications and so on. Accurate approximation and interpolation of these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Mohammad Karimnejad Esfahani , Stefano De Marchi , Francesco Marchetti

This paper addresses the problem of approximating an unknown function from point evaluations. When obtaining these point evaluations is costly, minimising the required sample size becomes crucial, and it is unreasonable to reserve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Nando Hegemann , Anthony Nouy , Philipp Trunschke

We analyze the accuracy of the discrete least-squares approximation of a function $u$ in multivariate polynomial spaces $\mathbb{P}_\Lambda:={\rm span} \{y\mapsto y^\nu \,: \, \nu\in \Lambda\}$ with $\Lambda\subset \mathbb{N}_0^d$ over the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Albert Cohen , Giovanni Migliorati , Fabio Nobile

Motivated by the need for efficient estimation of conditional expectations, we consider a least-squares function approximation problem with heavily polluted data. Existing methods that are effective in the small-noise regime are suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Ben Adcock , Bernhard Hientzsch , Akil Narayan , Yiming Xu

We consider the optimization of a quadratic objective function whose gradients are only accessible through a stochastic oracle that returns the gradient at any given point plus a zero-mean finite variance random error. We present the first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Aymeric Dieuleveut , Nicolas Flammarion , Francis Bach

Non-negative least squares (NNLS) problem is one of the most important fundamental problems in numeric analysis. It has been widely used in scientific computation and data modeling. In big data, the limitations of algorithm speed and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Duy Khuong Nguyen , Tu Bao Ho

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

This survey is concerned with the power of random information for approximation in the (deterministic) worst-case setting, with special emphasis on information consisting of functionals selected independently and identically distributed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Mathias Sonnleitner , Mario Ullrich

Biased sampling and missing data complicates statistical problems ranging from causal inference to reinforcement learning. We often correct for biased sampling of summary statistics with matching methods and importance weighting. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-02 James Sharpnack

We propose a linear algorithm for determining two function parameters by their linear combination. These functions must satisfy the first order differential equations with polynomial coefficients and our parameters are the coefficients of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-01-09 Oleg I. Berngardt , Alexander L. Voronov