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Over the last decade, approximating functions in infinite dimensions from samples has gained increasing attention in computational science and engineering, especially in computational uncertainty quantification. This is primarily due to the…

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This paper is concerned with the development and analysis of an iterative solver for high-dimensional second-order elliptic problems based on subspace-based low-rank tensor formats. Both the subspaces giving rise to low-rank approximations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

We consider the problem of learning an unknown, possibly nonlinear operator between separable Hilbert spaces from supervised data. Inputs are drawn from a prescribed probability measure on the input space, and outputs are (possibly noisy)…

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For multivariate nonparametric regression, functional analysis-of-variance (ANOVA) modeling aims to capture the relationship between a response and covariates by decomposing the unknown function into various components, representing main…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-20 Ting Yang , Zhiqiang Tan

This paper studies the probabilistic function approximation problem over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We show the existence and uniqueness of the optimizer under mild assumptions. Furthermore, we generalize the celebrated representer…

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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

It is known that for a $\rho$-weighted $L_q$-approximation of single variable functions $f$ with the $r$th derivatives in a $\psi$-weighted $L_p$ space, the minimal error of approximations that use $n$ samples of $f$ is proportional to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-10 P. Kritzer , F. Pillichshammer , L. Plaskota , G. W. Wasilkowski

Low-rank approximation of kernels is a fundamental mathematical problem with widespread algorithmic applications. Often the kernel is restricted to an algebraic variety, e.g., in problems involving sparse or low-rank data. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jason M. Altschuler , Pablo A. Parrilo

We consider the problem of approximating an unknown function $u\in L^2(D,\rho)$ from its evaluations at given sampling points $x^1,\dots,x^n\in D$, where $D\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ is a general domain and $\rho$ is a probability measure. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Benjamin Arras , Markus Bachmayr , Albert Cohen

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

We consider a stochastic version of the proximal point algorithm for optimization problems posed on a Hilbert space. A typical application of this is supervised learning. While the method is not new, it has not been extensively analyzed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Monika Eisenmann , Tony Stillfjord , Måns Williamson

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 Massimo Fornasier , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Learning kernels in operators from data lies at the intersection of inverse problems and statistical learning, providing a powerful framework for capturing non-local dependencies in function spaces and high-dimensional settings. In contrast…

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Motivated by numerical methods for solving parametric partial differential equations, this paper studies the approximation of multivariate analytic functions by algebraic polynomials. We introduce various anisotropic model classes based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Andrea Bonito , Ronald DeVore , Diane Guignard , Peter Jantsch , Guergana Petrova

Infinite-dimensional, holomorphic functions have been studied in detail over the last several decades, due to their relevance to parametric differential equations and computational uncertainty quantification. The approximation of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Ben Adcock , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

Large-scale eigenvalue problems arise in various fields of science and engineering and demand computationally efficient solutions. In this study, we investigate the subspace approximation for parametric linear eigenvalue problems, aiming to…

We consider the global minimization of smooth functions based solely on function evaluations. Algorithms that achieve the optimal number of function evaluations for a given precision level typically rely on explicitly constructing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Alessandro Rudi , Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Francis Bach

We consider a class of operator-induced norms, acting as finite-dimensional surrogates to the L2 norm, and study their approximation properties over Hilbert subspaces of L2 . The class includes, as a special case, the usual empirical norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-01 Arash A. Amini , Martin J. Wainwright

In the first part we have shown that, for $L_2$-approximation of functions from a separable Hilbert space in the worst-case setting, linear algorithms based on function values are almost as powerful as arbitrary linear algorithms if the…

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