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Connecting orbits are important invariant structures in the state space of nonlinear systems and various techniques are designed for their computation. However, a uniform analytic approximation of the whole orbit seems rare. Here, based on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Pengfei Guo , Yueheng Lan , Jianyong Qiao

In the present work, we introduce a Self-Consistent Density-Functional Embedding technique, which leaves the realm of standard energy-functional approaches in Density Functional Theory and targets directly the density-to-potential mapping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Uliana Mordovina , Teresa E. Reinhard , Iris Theophilou , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio

We focus on nonconvex and nonsmooth minimization problems with a composite objective, where the differentiable part of the objective is freed from the usual and restrictive global Lipschitz gradient continuity assumption. This longstanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Jérôme Bolte , Shoham Sabach , Marc Teboulle , Yakov Vaisbourd

Virtual element methods is a new promising finite element methods using general polygonal meshes. Its optimal a priori error estimates are well established in the literature. In this paper, we take a different viewpoint. We try to uncover…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Hailong Guo , Cong Xie , Ren Zhao

We introduce a class of fully-connected neural networks whose activation functions, rather than being pointwise, rescale feature vectors by a function depending only on their norm. We call such networks radial neural networks, extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Iordan Ganev , Twan van Laarhoven , Robin Walters

This paper proposes a novel method for learning highly nonlinear, multivariate functions from examples. Our method takes advantage of the property that continuous functions can be approximated by polynomials, which in turn are representable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sandor Szedmak , Anna Cichonska , Heli Julkunen , Tapio Pahikkala , Juho Rousu

Optimization problems with composite functions consist of an objective function which is the sum of a smooth and a (convex) nonsmooth term. This particular structure is exploited by the class of proximal gradient methods and some of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christian Kanzow , Theresa Lechner

In this paper, we consider an approximation method, and a novel general analysis, for second-order elliptic differential equations with heterogeneous multiscale coefficients. We obtain convergence of the Generalized Multi-scale Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Eduardo Abreu , Ciro Diaz , Juan Galvis

The suitable basis functions for approximating periodic function are periodic, trigonometric functions. When the function is not periodic, a viable alternative is to consider polynomials as basis functions. In this paper we will point out…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Hillel Tal-Ezer

This paper proposes and develops a new Newton-type algorithm to solve subdifferential inclusions defined by subgradients of extended-real-valued prox-regular functions. The proposed algorithm is formulated in terms of the second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris Mordukhovich , Vo Thanh Phat

This paper presents a nonconforming finite element approximation of the space of symmetric tensors with square integrable divergence, on tetrahedral meshes. Used for stress approximation together with the full space of piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Ragnar Winther

The task of approximating a function of d variables from its evaluations at a given number of points is ubiquitous in numerical analysis and engineering applications. When d is large, this task is challenged by the so-called curse of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Albert Cohen , Giovanni Migliorati

This paper is devoted to the study of general (Laurent) polynomial modifications of moment functionals on the unit circle, i.e., associated with hermitian Toeplitz matrices. We present a new approach which allows us to study polynomial…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-08-19 M. J. Cantero , L. Moral , L. Velazquez

We study the finite element approximation of linear second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form with highly heterogeneous diffusion and drift coefficients. A generalized Cordes condition is imposed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Moritz Hauck , Roland Maier , Timo Sprekeler

We present two new classes of orthogonal functions, log orthogonal functions (LOFs) and generalized log orthogonal functions (GLOFs), which are constructed by applying a $\log$ mapping to Laguerre polynomials. We develop basic approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Sheng Chen , Jie Shen

A posteriori estimates give bounds on the error between the unknown solution of a partial differential equation and its numerical approximation. We present here the methodology based on H1-conforming potential and H(div)-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Martin Vohralík , Soleiman Yousef

The analysis of complex nonlinear systems is often carried out using simpler piecewise linear representations of them. A principled and practical technique is proposed to linearize and evaluate arbitrary continuous nonlinear functions using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Guillermo Gallego , Daniel Berjón , Narciso García

We discuss some aspects of approximating functions on high-dimensional data sets with additive functions or ANOVA decompositions, that is, sums of functions depending on fewer variables each. It is seen that under appropriate smoothness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-17 Markus Hegland , Vladimir Pestov

The relationship between mappings of sets and renormalization group transformations is established, and renormalization group invariants of such mappings are found. These results are valid both for continuous and discrete mappings and for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gennady N. Nikolaev

Universal approximation theory offers a foundational framework to verify neural network expressiveness, enabling principled utilization in real-world applications. However, most existing theoretical constructions are established by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 ZeYu Li , ShiJun Zhang , TieYong Zeng , FengLei Fan