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Error bound analysis, which estimates the distance of a point to the solution set of an optimization problem using the optimality residual, is a powerful tool for the analysis of first-order optimization algorithms. In this paper, we use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jiawei Zhang , Zhiquan Luo

We consider convex and nonconvex constrained optimization with a partially separable objective function: agents minimize the sum of local objective functions, each of which is known only by the associated agent and depends on the variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Loris Cannelli , Francisco Facchinei , Gesualdo Scutari , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

We consider nonparametric regression with functional covariates, that is, they are elements of an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. A locally polynomial estimator is constructed, where an orthonormal basis and various tuning parameters…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Moritz Jirak , Alois Kneip , Alexander Meister , Mario Pahl

In this paper, we study some bounds for nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programs. We propose two types of bounds for quadratically constrained quadratic programs, quadratic and cubic bounds. For quadratic bounds, we use affine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Moslem Zamani

Extending a fundamental result for (indefinite) quadratic programs, this paper shows that certain non-convex piecewise programs have only a finite number of directional stationary values, and thus, possess only finitely many locally minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Ying Cui , Jong-Shi Pang

We provide improved error bounds for kernel-based numerical differentiation in terms of growth functions when kernels are of a finite smoothness, such as polyharmonic splines, thin plate splines or Wendland kernels. In contrast to existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Oleg Davydov

It is shown how piecewise differentiable functions $F: \mathbb R^n \mapsto \mathbb R^m $ that are defined by evaluation programs can be approximated locally by a piecewise linear model based on a pair of sample points $\check x$ and $\hat…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Andreas Griewank , Tom Streubel , Lutz Lehmann , Manuel Radons , Richard Hasenfelder

In exchange for large quantities of data and processing power, deep neural networks have yielded models that provide state of the art predication capabilities in many fields. However, a lack of strong guarantees on their behaviour have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Haakon Robinson , Adil Rasheed , Omer San

In the present work, we derive functional upper bounds for the potential error arising from finite-element boundary-element coupling formulations for a nonlinear Poisson-type transmission problem. The proposed a posteriori error estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Alexander Freiszlinger , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius , Michael Schomburg

We study mixed-integer programming formulations for the piecewise linear lower and upper bounds (in other words, piecewise linear relaxations) of nonlinear functions that can be modeled by a new class of combinatorial disjunctive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Bochuan Lyu , Illya V. Hicks , Joey Huchette

A sequential piecewise linear programming method is presented where bounded domains of non-convex functions are successively contracted about the solution of a piecewise linear program at each iteration of the algorithm. Although…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-21 James P. L. Tan

In this article we consider a priori error and pointwise estimates for finite element approximations of solutions to semilinear elliptic boundary value problems in d>=2 space dimensions, with nonlinearities satisfying critical growth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Randolph E. Bank , Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

In scientific disciplines such as neuroimaging, climatology, and cosmology it is useful to study the uncertainty of excursion sets of imaging data. While the case of imaging data obtained from a single study condition has already been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Thomas J. Maullin-Sapey , Fabian J. E. Telschow

We present a systematic study on a class of nonlocal integral functionals for functions defined on a bounded domain and the naturally induced function spaces. The function spaces are equipped with a seminorm depending on finite differences…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 James M. Scott , Qiang Du

The problem of finding the minimizer of a sum of convex functions is central to the field of optimization. Thus, it is of interest to understand how that minimizer is related to the properties of the individual functions in the sum. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Kananart Kuwaranancharoen , Shreyas Sundaram

Given noisy data, function estimation is considered when the unknown function is known apriori to consist of a small number of regions where the function is either convex or concave. When the regions are known apriori, the estimate is…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-18 Kurt S. Riedel

The paper addresses parametric inequality systems described by polynomial functions in finite dimensions, where state-dependent infinite parameter sets are given by finitely many polynomial inequalities and equalities. Such systems can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 G. Li , B. S. Mordukhovich , T. T. A. Nghia , T. S. Pham

We analyze the meta-learning of the initialization and step-size of learning algorithms for piecewise-Lipschitz functions, a non-convex setting with applications to both machine learning and algorithms. Starting from recent regret bounds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Mikhail Khodak , Dravyansh Sharma , Ameet Talwalkar

This article is concerned with the approximation of unbounded convex sets by polyhedra. While there is an abundance of literature investigating this task for compact sets, results on the unbounded case are scarce. We first point out the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Daniel Dörfler

In this work, the issue of estimation of reachable sets in continuous bimodal piecewise affine systems is studied. A new method is proposed, in the framework of ellipsoidal bounding, using piecewise quadratic Lyapunov functions. Although…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Thuan Le Quang , Nam Phan Thanh , Simone Baldi