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Smoothing and filtering two-dimensional sequences are fundamental tasks in fields such as computer vision. Conventional filtering algorithms often rely on the selection of the filtering window, limiting their applicability in certain…

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Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

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In modern machine learning, attention computation is a fundamental task for training large language models such as Transformer, GPT-4 and ChatGPT. In this work, we study exponential regression problem which is inspired by the softmax/exp…

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Exponential smoothing is a time series forecasting method that presents the forecast based on trend and seasonality components. In this work, we study the behavior of two time series that describe the level of the water reservoirs of the…

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We revisit the interest of classical statistical techniques for sales forecasting like exponential smoothing and extensions thereof (as Holt's linear trend method). We do so by considering ensemble forecasts, given by several instances of…

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In many clustering scenes, data samples' attribute values change over time. For such data, we are often interested in obtaining a partition for each time step and tracking the dynamic change of partitions. Normally, a smooth change is…

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We introduce a covariance matrix estimator that both takes into account the heteroskedasticity of financial returns (by using an exponentially weighted moving average) and reduces the effective dimensionality of the estimation (and hence…

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To improve the off-sample generalization of classical procedures minimizing the empirical risk under potentially heavy-tailed data, new robust learning algorithms have been proposed in recent years, with generalized median-of-means…

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A smoothing algorithm is presented for solving the soft-margin Support Vector Machine (SVM) optimization problem with an $\ell^{1}$ penalty. This algorithm is designed to require a modest number of passes over the data, which is an…

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Smoothing splines provide a powerful and flexible means for nonparametric estimation and inference. With a cubic time complexity, fitting smoothing spline models to large data is computationally prohibitive. In this paper, we use the…

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