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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) became the standard tool for function approximation with most of the introduced architectures being developed for high-dimensional input data. However, many real-world problems have low-dimensional inputs for…

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We propose and test the first Reduced Radial Basis Function Method (R$^2$BFM) for solving parametric partial differential equations on irregular domains. The two major ingredients are a stable Radial Basis Function (RBF) solver that has an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Yanlai Chen , Sigal Gottlieb , Alfa Heryudono , Akil Narayan

Decoupled fractional Laplacian wave equation can describe the seismic wave propagation in attenuating media. Fourier pseudospectral implementations, which solve the equation in spatial frequency domain, are the only existing methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yiran Xu , Jingye Li , Guofei Pang , Zhikai Wang , Xiaohong Chen

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

Approximating differential operators defined on two-dimensional surfaces is an important problem that arises in many areas of science and engineering. Over the past ten years, localized meshfree methods based on generalized moving least…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Andrew M. Jones , Peter A. Bosler , Paul A. Kuberry , Grady B. Wright a

We study optimization over Riemannian embedded submanifolds, where the objective function is relatively smooth in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems have broad applications but are still largely unexplored. We introduce two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Chang He , Jiaxiang Li , Bo Jiang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

Given i.i.d. observations uniformly distributed on a closed submanifold of the Euclidean space, we study higher-order generalizations of graph Laplacians, so-called Hodge Laplacians on graphs, as approximations of the Laplace-Beltrami…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Jan-Paul Lerch , Martin Wahl

A new projection method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) is presented for discretizing the incompressible unsteady Stokes equations in irregular geometries. The novelty of the method comes from the application of a new technique for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Edward J. Fuselier , Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright

We recover the Riemannian gradient of a given function defined on interior points of a Riemannian submanifold in the Euclidean space based on a sample of function evaluations at points in the submanifold. This approach is based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Antônio J. Silva Neto , Jorge P. Zubelli

In this paper, we propose a meshfree method based on the Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) to solve both classical and fractional PDEs. The proposed method takes advantage of the analytical Laplacian of Gaussian functions so as to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 John Burkardt , Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-08 John Wilson Peoples , John Harlim

In this paper, we present a method based on Radial Basis Function (RBF)-generated Finite Differences (FD) for numerically solving diffusion and reaction-diffusion equations (PDEs) on closed surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

Spectral methods that are based on eigenvectors and eigenvalues of discrete graph Laplacians, such as Diffusion Maps and Laplacian Eigenmaps are often used for manifold learning and non-linear dimensionality reduction. It was previously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Amit Singer , Hau-tieng Wu

Very few studies involve how to construct the efficient RBFs by means of problem features. Recently the present author presented general solution RBF (GS-RBF) methodology to create operator-dependent RBFs successfully [1]. On the other…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Chen

In this paper, we investigate the application of radial basis functions (RBFs) for the approximation with collocation of the Stokes problem. The approximate solution is constructed in a multi-level fashion, each level using compactly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Andrew Chernih , Quoc Thong Le Gia

This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces of codimension 1 embedded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Víctor Bayona , Argyrios Petras , Cécile Piret , Steven J. Ruuth

This paper aims to survey our recent work relating to the radial basis function (RBF) from some new views of points. In the first part, we established the RBF on numerical integration analysis based on an intrinsic relationship between the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Chen , M. Tanaka

We approximate the spectral data (eigenvalues and eigenfunctions) of compact Riemannian manifold by the spectral data of a sequence of (computable) discrete Laplace operators associated to some graphs immersed in the manifold. We give an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-17 Erwann Aubry

In this work, we propose an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) approach for the efficient solution of multidimensional spatiotemporal integrodifferential equations. Our approach can automatically adjust the shape of RBFs and provide an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Mingtao Xia , Qijing Shen

We study the numerical evaluation of the integral fractional Laplacian and its application in solving fractional diffusion equations. We derive a pseudo-spectral formula for the integral fractional Laplacian operator based on fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Zhaopeng Hao , Zhiqiang Cai , Zhongqiang Zhang