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Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are equal weight quadrature rules to approximate integrals over the unit cube with respect to the uniform measure. In this paper we discuss QMC integration with respect to general product measures defined on…

We develop polynomial-time algorithms for near-optimal minimax mean estimation under $\ell_2$-squared loss in a Gaussian sequence model under convex constraints. The parameter space is an origin-symmetric, type-2 convex body $K \subset…

This paper deals with the kernel-based approximation of a multivariate periodic function by interpolation at the points of an integration lattice -- a setting that, as pointed out by Zeng, Leung, Hickernell (MCQMC2004, 2006) and Zeng,…

In this article, we combine a lattice sequence from Quasi-Monte Carlo rules with the philosophy of the Fourier-cosine method to design an approximation scheme for expectation computation. We study the error of this scheme and compare this…

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In a celebrated construction, Chen and Skriganov gave explicit examples of point sets achieving the best possible $L_2$-norm of the discrepancy function. We consider the discrepancy function of the Chen-Skriganov point sets in Besov spaces…

Motivated by broad applications in reinforcement learning and federated learning, we study local stochastic approximation over a network of agents, where their goal is to find the root of an operator composed of the local operators at the…

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We consider the problem of approximating a function in general nonlinear subsets of $L^2$ when only a weighted Monte Carlo estimate of the $L^2$-norm can be computed. Of particular interest in this setting is the concept of sample…

In this paper we investigate multivariate integration in weighted unanchored Sobolev spaces of smoothness of arbitrarily high order. As quadrature points we employ higher order polynomial lattice point sets over $\mathbb{F}_{2}$ which are…

This article investigates discrete-time approximations of stochastic integrals driven by semimartingales with jumps via weighted bounded mean oscillation (BMO) approach. This approach enables $L_p$-estimates, $p \in (2, \infty)$, for the…

Given a weighted graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and a positive integer $p$, the Hamiltonian $p$-median problem consists in finding $p$ cycles of minimum total weight such that each vertex of $G$ is in exactly one cycle. We…

We describe two quantum algorithms to approximate the mean value of a black-box function. The first algorithm is novel and asymptotically optimal while the second is a variation on an earlier algorithm due to Aharonov. Both algorithms have…

Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods present a convenient approach for approximating the expected value of a random variable. Algorithms exist to adaptively sample the random variable until a user defined absolute error tolerance is…

In this paper we consider integration and $L_2$-approximation for functions over $\RR^s$ from weighted Hermite spaces. The first part of the paper is devoted to a comparison of several weighted Hermite spaces that appear in literature,…

In the first part of this series of two papers, we proposed a theoretical formalism that enables one to model and categorize heterogeneous materials (media) via two-point correlation functions S2 and introduced an efficient…

This paper is concerned with function reconstruction from samples. The sampling points used in several approaches are (1) structured points connected with fast algorithms or (2) unstructured points coming from, e.g., an initial random draw…

The sparse polynomial approximation of continuous functions has emerged as a prominent area of interest in function approximation theory in recent years. A key challenge within this domain is the accurate estimation of approximation errors.…