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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

Approximation of scattered geometric data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This method is useful for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

In much of the literature on function approximation by deep networks, the function is assumed to be defined on some known domain, such as a cube or a sphere. In practice, the data might not be dense on these domains, and therefore, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hrushikesh Mhaskar

Approximation of scattered data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This approach is useful for a higher…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

Consider an $s$-dimensional function being evaluated at $n$ points of a low discrepancy sequence (LDS), where the objective is to approximate the one-dimensional functions that result from integrating out $(s-1)$ variables. Here, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Chaitanya Joshi , Paul T. Brown , Stephen Joe

Approximation of scattered data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered datasets in d-dimensional space. It is non-separable approximation, as it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

Classification is a core topic in functional data analysis. A large number of functional classifiers have been proposed in the literature, most of which are based on functional principal component analysis or functional regression. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-14 Ruoxu Tan , Yiming Zang

In this manuscript, we propose an efficient manifold denoiser based on landmark diffusion and optimal shrinkage under the complicated high dimensional noise and compact manifold setup. It is flexible to handle several setups, including the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-09 Hau-Tieng Wu

Large-scale nonsmooth optimization problems arise in many real-world applications, but obtaining exact function and subgradient values for these problems may be computationally expensive or even infeasible. In many practical settings, only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Jenni Lampainen , Kaisa Joki , Napsu Karmitsa , Marko M. Mäkelä

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction or, equivalently, the approximation of high-dimensional data using a low-dimensional nonlinear manifold is an active area of research. In this paper, we will present a thematically different approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-21 Kelum Gajamannage , Randy Paffenroth

We consider the problem of reconstructing missing data on a smooth manifold from incomplete and nonuniform samples. While classical methods for manifold approximation typically assume quasi-uniform data, their performance deteriorates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 David Levin

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a widely used technique in many applications such as face recognition, motion segmentation, etc. It approximates the nonnegative data in an original high dimensional space with a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Bin Shen , Luo Si , Rongrong Ji , Baodi Liu

We propose a kernel-spectral embedding algorithm for learning low-dimensional nonlinear structures from high-dimensional and noisy observations, where the datasets are assumed to be sampled from an intrinsically low-dimensional manifold and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-07 Xiucai Ding , Rong Ma

The objective of this paper is to design an embedding method that maps local features describing an image (e.g. SIFT) to a higher dimensional representation useful for the image retrieval problem. First, motivated by the relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Thanh-Toan Do , Ngai-Man Cheung

In this paper we propose an approximation method for high-dimensional $1$-periodic functions based on the multivariate ANOVA decomposition. We provide an analysis on the classical ANOVA decomposition on the torus and prove some important…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Daniel Potts , Michael Schmischke

For many machine learning tasks, the input data lie on a low-dimensional manifold embedded in a high dimensional space and, because of this high-dimensional structure, most algorithms are inefficient. The typical solution is to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Anna C. Gilbert , Rishi Sonthalia

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 propose a new numerical scheme for approximating level-sets of Lipschitz multivariate functions which is robust to stochastic noise. The algorithm's main feature is an adaptive grid-based stochastic approximation strategy which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Matteo Croci , Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Ian C. J. Powell

One-dimensional function approximation is a fundamental problem in scientific computing and engineering applications. While neural networks possess powerful universal approximation capabilities, their optimization process is often hindered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hu Lou , Yin-Jun Gao , Dong-Xiao Zhang , Tai-Jiao Du , Jun-Jie Zhang , Jia-Rui Zhang

This paper studies the approximation of generalized ridge functions, namely of functions which are constant along some submanifolds of $\mathbb{R}^N$. We introduce the notion of linear-sleeve functions, whose function values only depend on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Sandra Keiper