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We prove an L2 recovery bound for a family of sparse estimators defined as minimizers of some empirical loss functions -- which include hinge loss and logistic loss. More precisely, we achieve an upper-bound for coefficients estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Antoine Dedieu

In this paper we study the sampling recovery problem for certain relevant multivariate function classes which are not compactly embedded into $L_\infty$. Recent tools relating the sampling numbers to the Kolmogorov widths in the uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Glenn Byrenheid , Serhii A. Stasyuk , Tino Ullrich

Operator learning, the approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces using machine learning, has gained increasing research attention in recent years. Approximate operators, learned from data, can serve as efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ben Adcock , Michael Griebel , Gregor Maier

Reconstructing a band-limited function from its finite sample data is a fundamental task in signal analysis. A Gaussian regularized Shannon sampling series has been proved to be able to achieve exponential convergence for uniform sampling.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Yunfei Yang , Haizhang Zhang

Gaussian process regression is a powerful Bayesian nonlinear regression method. Recent research has enabled the capture of many types of observations using non-Gaussian likelihoods. To deal with various tasks in spatial modeling, we benefit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Yuta Shikuri

Recent work has shown the surprising power of low-degree sandwiching polynomial approximators in the context of challenging learning settings such as learning with distribution shift, testable learning, and learning with contamination. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

$L_1$-Approximating polynomials, i.e., polynomials that approximate indicator functions in $L_1$-norm under certain distributions, are widely used in computational learning theory. We study the existence of \textit{non-negative}…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Jane H. Lee , Anay Mehrotra , Manolis Zampetakis

Skew-symmetric functions are a class of functions defined on a product space $M \times M$ that are antisymmetric with respect to the order of their inputs. In [13], the authors proved that non-deterministic skew-symmetric Gaussian fields…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Munki Jeong , Alexander Strang

Exponential generalization bounds with near-tight rates have recently been established for uniformly stable learning algorithms. The notion of uniform stability, however, is stringent in the sense that it is invariant to the data-generating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-09 Xiao-Tong Yuan , Ping Li

Suppose that we are given independent, identically distributed samples $x_l$ from a mixture $\mu$ of no more than $k$ of $d$-dimensional spherical gaussian distributions $\mu_i$ with variance $1$, such that the minimum $\ell_2$ distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Somnath Chakraborty , Hariharan Narayanan

Linear Least Squares is a very well known technique for parameter estimation, which is used even when sub-optimal, because of its very low computational requirements and the fact that exact knowledge of the noise statistics is not required.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-01 Michael Krikheli , Amir Leshem

We consider the problem of random sampling for band-limited functions. When can a band-limited function $f$ be recovered from randomly chosen samples $f(x_j), j\in \mathbb{N}$? We estimate the probability that a sampling inequality of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-27 Karlheinz Gröchenig , Richard F. Bass

We propose an algorithm for robust recovery of the spherical harmonic expansion of functions defined on the d-dimensional unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ using a near-optimal number of function evaluations. We show that for any $f \in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Amir Zandieh , Insu Han , Haim Avron

Many popular learning algorithms (E.g. Regression, Fourier-Transform based algorithms, Kernel SVM and Kernel ridge regression) operate by reducing the problem to a convex optimization problem over a vector space of functions. These methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

The approximate degree of a Boolean function f is the least degree of a real polynomial that approximates f pointwise to error at most 1/3. Approximate degree is known to be a lower bound on quantum query complexity. We resolve or nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Mark Bun , Robin Kothari , Justin Thaler

Results on asymptotic characteristics of classes of functions with mixed smoothness are obtained in the paper. Our main interest is in estimating the Kolmogorov widths of classes with small mixed smoothness. We prove the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-21 V. Temlyakov , T. Ullrich

We study non-convex empirical risk minimization for learning halfspaces and neural networks. For loss functions that are $L$-Lipschitz continuous, we present algorithms to learn halfspaces and multi-layer neural networks that achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Yuchen Zhang , Jason D. Lee , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

In this paper, we focus on the approximation of smooth functions $f: [-\pi, \pi] \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$, up to an unresolvable global phase ambiguity, from a finite set of Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) magnitude (i.e., spectrogram)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Mark Iwen , Michael Perlmutter , Nada Sissouno , Aditya Viswanathan

We consider the problem of reconstructing a function from a finite set of noise-corrupted samples. Two kernel algorithms are analyzed, namely kernel ridge regression and $\varepsilon$-support vector regression. By assuming the ground-truth…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Emilio T. Maddalena , Paul Scharnhorst , Colin N. Jones

We investigate the realizations of a random Gaussian field on a finite domain of ${\mathbb R}^d$ in the limit where a given linear functional of the field is large. We prove that if its variance is bounded, the field converges uniformly and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Philippe Mounaix