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The least-squares support vector machine is a frequently used kernel method for non-linear regression and classification tasks. Here we discuss several approximation algorithms for the least-squares support vector machine classifier. The…

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We consider the least-squares regression problem and provide a detailed asymptotic analysis of the performance of averaged constant-step-size stochastic gradient descent (a.k.a. least-mean-squares). In the strongly-convex case, we provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Alexandre Défossez , Francis Bach

Statistical inverse learning aims at recovering an unknown function $f$ from randomly scattered and possibly noisy point evaluations of another function $g$, connected to $f$ via an ill-posed mathematical model. In this paper we blend…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Tapio Helin

We present an algorithm for approximating a function defined over a $d$-dimensional manifold utilizing only noisy function values at locations sampled from the manifold with noise. To produce the approximation we do not require any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Barak Sober , Yariv Aizenbud , David Levin

We consider fitting a bivariate spline regression model to data using a weighted least-squares cost function, with weights that sum to one to form a discrete probability distribution. By applying the principle of maximum entropy, the weight…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Pierluigi Amodio , Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro

We study the following basic machine learning task: Given a fixed set of $d$-dimensional input points for a linear regression problem, we wish to predict a hidden response value for each of the points. We can only afford to attain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Michał Dereziński , Manfred K. Warmuth

It was recently shown in [4] that, for $L_2$-approximation of functions from a Hilbert space, function values are almost as powerful as arbitrary linear information, if the approximation numbers are square-summable. That is, we showed that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Mario Ullrich

In computational practice, most attention is paid to rational approximations of functions and approximations by the sum of exponents. We consider a wide enough class of nonlinear approximations characterized by a set of two required…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Petr N. Vabishchevich

For optimization on large-scale data, exactly calculating its solution may be computationally difficulty because of the large size of the data. In this paper we consider subsampled optimization for fast approximating the exact solution. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-11 Rong Zhu , Jiming Jiang

Subsampling methods have been recently proposed to speed up least squares estimation in large scale settings. However, these algorithms are typically not robust to outliers or corruptions in the observed covariates. The concept of influence…

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Given any domain $X\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ and a probability measure $\rho$ on $X$, we study the problem of approximating in $L^2(X,\rho)$ a given function $u:X\to\mathbb{R}$, using its noiseless pointwise evaluations at random samples. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Giovanni Migliorati

Subsampling is an efficient method to deal with massive data. In this paper, we investigate the optimal subsampling for linear quantile regression when the covariates are functions. The asymptotic distribution of the subsampling estimator…

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We construct a least squares approximation method for the recovery of complex-valued functions from a reproducing kernel Hilbert space on $D \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. The nodes are drawn at random for the whole class of functions and the error…

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In experimental design, we are given a large collection of vectors, each with a hidden response value that we assume derives from an underlying linear model, and we wish to pick a small subset of the vectors such that querying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Michał Dereziński , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Michael W. Mahoney , Manfred K. Warmuth

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of random sampling has been consistently efficient in its empirical studies by many scientists who applied it with various sparse and structured multipliers, but adequate formal support for this…

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We consider the problem of reconstructing an unknown function $f$ on a domain $X$ from samples of $f$ at $n$ randomly chosen points with respect to a given measure $\rho_X$. Given a sequence of linear spaces $(V_m)_{m>0}$ with ${\rm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Albert Cohen , Mark A. Davenport , Dany Leviatan

We consider a resampling scheme for parameters estimates in nonlinear regression models. We provide an estimation procedure which recycles, via random weighting, the relevant parameters estimates to construct consistent estimates of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-18 Ben Boukai , Yue Zhang

Variational inference approximates the posterior distribution of a probabilistic model with a parameterized density by maximizing a lower bound for the model evidence. Modern solutions fit a flexible approximation with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-13 Joseph Sakaya , Arto Klami

Recovering frequency-localized functions from pointwise data is a fundamental task in signal processing. We examine this problem from an approximation-theoretic perspective, focusing on least squares and deep learning-based methods. First,…

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The reconstruction of unknown functions from a finite number of samples is a fundamental challenge in pure and applied mathematics. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in sampling recovery, focusing on the…

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