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In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth fractional programming problems, that involve the sum of a convex, possibly nonsmooth function composed with a linear operator and a differentiable, possibly nonconvex function…

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We propose a method for solving constrained fixed point problems involving compositions of Lipschitz pseudo contractive and firmly nonexpansive operators in Hilbert spaces. Each iteration of the method uses separate evaluations of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Luis M. Briceño-Arias

We present an algorithm for approximating a function defined over a $d$-dimensional manifold utilizing only noisy function values at locations sampled from the manifold with noise. To produce the approximation we do not require any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Barak Sober , Yariv Aizenbud , David Levin

Our main interest in this paper is to study some approximation problems for classes of functions with mixed smoothness. We use technique, based on a combination of results from hyperbolic cross approximation, which were obtained in 1980s --…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Vladimir Temlyakov

Traditional problems in computational geometry involve aspects that are both discrete and continuous. One such example is nearest-neighbor searching, where the input is discrete, but the result depends on distances, which vary continuously.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ahmed Abdelkader , David M. Mount

We propose a novel extension to symmetrized neural network operators by incorporating fractional and mixed activation functions. This study addresses the limitations of existing models in approximating higher-order smooth functions,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-22 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

In this article, we consider the problem of approximating a finite set of data (usually huge in applications) by invariant subspaces generated through a small set of smooth functions. The invariance is either by translations under a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Davide Barbieri , Eugenio Hernández , Carlos Cabrelli , Ursula Molter

Motivated by the rapidly growing field of mathematics for operator approximation with neural networks, we present a novel universal operator approximation theorem for a broad class of encoder-decoder architectures. In this study, we focus…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Janek Gödeke , Pascal Fernsel

A general method for estimating the approximation numbers of composition operators on $\Ht$, using finite-dimensional model subspaces, is studied and applied in the case when the symbol of the operator maps the unit disc to a domain whose…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Hervé Queffélec , Kristian Seip

We investigate the rational approximation of fractional powers of unbounded positive operators attainable with a specific integral representation of the operator function. We provide accurate error bounds by exploiting classical results in…

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The space nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation is a famous example of fractional reaction-diffusion equations. It is also an extension of the classical Allen-Cahn equation, which is widely used in physics to describe the phenomenon of two-phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Yuxin Zhang , Hengfei Ding

We study first-order methods (FOMs) for solving \emph{composite nonconvex nonsmooth} optimization with linear constraints. Recently, the lower complexity bounds of FOMs on finding an ($\varepsilon,\varepsilon$)-KKT point of the considered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Wei Liu , Qihang Lin , Yangyang Xu

We consider minimization of functions that are compositions of convex or prox-regular functions (possibly extended-valued) with smooth vector functions. A wide variety of important optimization problems fall into this framework. We describe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 A. S. Lewis , S. J. Wright

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of subspace optimization problems, consisting of minimizing a smooth functional over the set of orthogonal projectors of fixed rank. Such problems are encountered in particular in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Eric Cancès , Gaspard Kemlin , Antoine Levitt

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

We introduce a numerical method for approximating arbitrary differential operators on vector fields in the weak form given point cloud data sampled randomly from a $d$ dimensional manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$. This method generalizes…

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We present a unified treatment of the abstract problem of finding the best approximation between a cone and spheres in the image of affine transformations. Prominent instances of this problem are phase retrieval and source localization. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-26 D. Russell Luke , Shoham Sabach , Marc Teboulle

We consider linear and obstacle problems driven by a nonlocal integral operator, for which nonlocal interactions are restricted to a ball of finite radius. These type of operators are used to model anomalous diffusion and, for a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

Quadratic-support functions [Aravkin, Burke, and Pillonetto; J. Mach. Learn. Res. 14(1), 2013] constitute a parametric family of convex functions that includes a range of useful regularization terms found in applications of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Michael P. Friedlander , Gabriel Goh

Fourier extension is an approximation scheme in which a function on an arbitary bounded domain is approximated using a classical Fourier series on a bounding box. On the smaller domain the Fourier series exhibits redundancy, and it has the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-16 Roel Matthysen , Daan Huybrechs