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In general, approximating classes of functions defined over high-dimensional input spaces by linear combinations of a fixed set of basis functions or ``features'' is known to be hard. Typically, the worst-case error of the best basis set…

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This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

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Linear programming (polynomial) techniques are used to obtain lower and upper bounds for the potential energy of spherical designs. This approach gives unified bounds that are valid for a large class of potential functions. Our lower bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-28 P. G. Boyvalenkov , P. D. Dragnev , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff , M. M. Stoyanova

Horn functions form a subclass of Boolean functions and appear in many different areas of computer science and mathematics as a general tool to describe implications and dependencies. Finding minimum sized representations for such functions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kristóf Bérczi , Endre Boros , Ondřej Čepek , Petr Kučera , Kazuhisa Makino

Largest theoretical contribution to Neural Networks comes from VC Dimension which characterizes the sample complexity of classification model in a probabilistic view and are widely used to study the generalization error. So far in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Linu Pinto , Sasi Gopalan

Deep learning algorithms have been successfully applied to numerically solve linear Kolmogorov partial differential equations~(PDEs). A recent research shows that if the initial functions are bounded, the empirical risk minimization (ERM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Jichang Xiao , Xiaoqun Wang

Linear differential equations and recurrences reveal many properties about their solutions. Therefore, these equations are well-suited for representing solutions and computing with special functions. We identify a large class of existing…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Louis Gaillard

We introduce linear programs encoding regular expressions of finite languages. We show that, given a language, the optimum value of the associated linear program is a lower bound on the size of any regular expression of the language.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Hamoon Mousavi

In recent years, neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in various fields and have also drawn much attention in applying them on scientific problems. A line of methods involving neural networks for solving partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Xianliang Xu , Ye Li , Zhongyi Huang

Despite the recent deep learning (DL) revolution, kernel machines still remain powerful methods for action recognition. DL has brought the use of large datasets and this is typically a problem for kernel approaches, which are not scaling up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Jacopo Cavazza , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Several ways to accelerate the solution of 2D/3D linear min-max problems in $n$ constraints are discussed. We also present an algorithm for solving such problems in the 2D case, which is superior to CGAL's linear programming solver, both in…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-05-29 Carmi Grushko

We propose a novel model reduction approach for the approximation of non linear hyperbolic equations in the scalar and the system cases. The approach relies on an offline computation of a dictionary of solutions together with an online…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Remi Abgrall , David Amsallem

The Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle offers a formal framework for applying Occam's razor in machine learning. However, its application to neural networks such as Transformers is challenging due to the lack of a principled,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Peter Shaw , James Cohan , Jacob Eisenstein , Kristina Toutanova

We calculate the least upper bounds for approximations in the metric of the space $L_2$ by linear methods of summation of Fourier series on classes of periodic functions $L^\psi_{\bar\beta,1}$ defined by sequences of multipliers…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-03-07 A. S. Serdyuk , I. V. Sokolenko

State estimation aims at approximately reconstructing the solution $u$ to a parametrized partial differential equation from $m$ linear measurements, when the parameter vector $y$ is unknown. Fast numerical recovery methods have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , Olga Mula , James Nichols

This paper develops fundamental limits of deep neural network learning by characterizing what is possible if no constraints are imposed on the learning algorithm and on the amount of training data. Concretely, we consider Kolmogorov-optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Dennis Elbrächter , Dmytro Perekrestenko , Philipp Grohs , Helmut Bölcskei

Scientists and engineers rely on accurate mathematical models to quantify the objects of their studies, which are often high-dimensional. Unfortunately, high-dimensional models are inherently difficult, i.e. when observations are sparse or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Robert A. Bridges , Chris Felder , Chelsey Hoff

We derive a formula which is a lower bound on the dimension of trivariate splines on a tetrahedral partition which are continuously differentiable of order $r$ in large enough degree. While this formula may fail to be a lower bound on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Michael DiPasquale , Nelly Villamizar

This note establishes a theoretical framework for finding (potentially overparameterized) approximations of a function on a compact set with a-priori bounds for the generalization error. The approximation method considered is to choose,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Arthur C. B. de Oliveira , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester , Eduardo D. Sontag

We determine upper asymptotic estimates of Kolmogorov and linear $n$-widths of unit balls in Sobolev and Besov norms in $L_{p}$-spaces on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds. For compact homogeneous manifolds, we establish estimates which…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Daryl Geller , Isaac Pesenson