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Convex optimization models find interesting applications, especially in signal/image processing and compressive sensing. We study some augmented convex models, which are perturbed by strongly convex functions, and propose a dual gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Hui Zhang , Lizhi Cheng , Wotao Yin

A wide class of regularization problems in machine learning and statistics employ a regularization term which is obtained by composing a simple convex function \omega with a linear transformation. This setting includes Group Lasso methods,…

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For Banach spaces $X,Y,$ we consider a distance problem in the space of bounded linear operators $\mathcal{L}(X,Y).$ Motivated by a recent paper \cite{RAO21}, we obtain sufficient conditions so that for a compact operator…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Arpita Mal

A new type of combinations of Bernstein operators is given in [1]. Here, we introduce another one, which can be used to approximate the functions with singularities. The direct and inverse results of the weighted approximation of this new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Wen-ming Lu , Lin Zhang

We introduce two algorithms for nonconvex regularized finite sum minimization, where typical Lipschitz differentiability assumptions are relaxed to the notion of relative smoothness. The first one is a Bregman extension of Finito/MISO,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Puya Latafat , Andreas Themelis , Masoud Ahookhosh , Panagiotis Patrinos

Approximate Bayesian computation performs approximate inference for models where likelihood computations are expensive or impossible. Instead simulations from the model are performed for various parameter values and accepted if they are…

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We obtain approximation results for general positive linear operators satisfying mild conditions, when acting on discontinuous functions and absolutely continuous functions having discontinuous derivatives. The upper bounds, given in terms…

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In this article we present the Durrmeyer variant of generalized Bernstein operators that preserve the constant functions involving non-negative parameter ?. We derive the approximation behaviour of these operators including global…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Arun Kajla , Meenu Goyal

Consider a differentiable convex function $f: \mathbb{R}^n \supset \mathrm{dom} f \rightarrow \mathbb{R}.$ The induced spectral function $F$ is given by $F=f \circ \lambda,$ where $\lambda: \mathbf{M}_n^{sa} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}$ is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Dániel Virosztek

The aim of this paper is to show that every representative function of a maximal monotone operator is the Fitzpatrick transform of a bifunction corresponding to the operator. In this way we exhibit the relation between the recent theory of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-03 Monica Bianchi , Nicolas Hadjisavvas , Rita Pini

We present a new sufficient condition under which a maximal monotone operator $T:X\tos X^*$ admits a unique maximal monotone extension to the bidual $\widetilde T:X^{**} \rightrightarrows X^*$. For non-linear operators this condition is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-30 M. Marques Alves , B. F. Svaiter

Comparative convexity is a generalization of convexity relying on abstract notions of means. We define the Jensen divergence and the Jensen diversity from the viewpoint of comparative convexity, and show how to obtain the generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock

In this paper, we primarily deal with approximately monotone and convex sequences. We start by showing that any sequence can be expressed as the difference between two nondecreasing sequences. One of these two monotone sequences act as the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Angshuman Robin Goswami

The concept of mixed norm spaces has emerged as a significant interest in fields such as harmonic analysis. In addition, the problem of function approximation through sampling series has been particularly noteworthy in the realm of…

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We examine the last-iterate convergence rate of Bregman proximal methods - from mirror descent to mirror-prox and its optimistic variants - as a function of the local geometry induced by the prox-mapping defining the method. For generality,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Waïss Azizian , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

We construct a family of closeness functions on the space of finite volume Lorentzian geometries using the abundance of discrete intervals in the underlying random causal sets. Although strictly weaker than a Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Sumati Surya

A new class of (not necessarily bounded) operators related to (mainly infinite) directed trees is introduced and investigated. Operators in question are to be considered as a generalization of classical weighted shifts, on the one hand, and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-19 Zenon Jablonski , Il Bong Jung , Jan Stochel

We study a general convex optimization problem, which covers various classic problems in different areas and particularly includes many optimal transport related problems arising in recent years. To solve this problem, we revisit the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Lei Yang , Kim-Chuan Toh