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Computing the distance function to some surface or line is a problem that occurs very frequently. There are several ways of computing a relevant approximation of this function, using for example technique originating from the approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Rémi Abgrall

In some of the problems, complicated functions of the Z-transform variable, $z$, appear which either cannot be inverted analytically or the required calculations are quite tedious. In such cases numerical methods should be used to find the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Farshad Merrikh-Bayat

A general framework with a series of different methods is proposed to improve the estimate of convex function (or functional) values when only noisy observations of the true input are available. Technically, our methods catch the bias…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-15 Chao Ma , Lexing Ying

This paper proposes a partially inexact alternating direction method of multipliers for computing approximate solution of a linearly constrained convex optimization problem. This method allows its first subproblem to be solved inexactly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Vando A. Adona , Max L. N. Goncalves , Jefferson G. Melo

We propose novel smooth approximations to the classical rounding function, suitable for differentiable optimization and machine learning applications. Our constructions are based on two approaches: (1) localized sigmoid window functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Stanislav Semenov

We develop and analyze stochastic inexact Gauss-Newton methods for nonlinear least-squares problems and for nonlinear systems ofequations. Random models are formed using suitable sampling strategies for the matrices involved in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Stefania Bellavia , Greta Malaspina , Benedetta Morini

Instead of sampling a function at a single point, average sampling takes the weighted sum of function values around the point. Such a sampling strategy is more practical and more stable. In this note, we present an explicit method with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Wenjian Chen , Haizhang Zhang

This article is devoted to computing the eigenvalue of the Laplace eigenvalue problem by the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method with emphasis on obtaining lower bounds. The WG method is on the use of weak functions and their weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Hehu Xie , Qilong Zhai , Ran Zhang

We study the problem of approximating an unknown function $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ by a degree-$d$ polynomial using as few function evaluations as possible, where error is measured with respect to a probability distribution $\mu$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chris Camaño , Raphael A. Meyer , Kevin Shu

The two-loop invariant (running) coupling of QCD is written in terms of the Lambert W function. The analyticity structure of the coupling in the complex Q^2-plane is established. The corresponding analytic coupling is reconstructed via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 B. Magradze

It is well known that the Newton method may not converge when the initial guess does not belong to a specific quadratic convergence region. We propose a family of new variants of the Newton method with the potential advantage of having a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Regina S. Burachik , Bethany I. Caldwell , C. Yalçın Kaya

We construct an objective function that consists of a quadratic approximation term and a penalty term. Thanks to the quadratic approximation, we can deal with various kinds of loss functions into a unified way, and by taking advantage of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Takumi Suzuki , Nakahiro Yoshida

This investigation seeks to establish the practicality of numerical frame approximations. Specifically, it develops a new method to approximate the inverse frame operator and analyzes its convergence properties. It is established that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-30 Guohui Song , Anne Gelb

This paper provides the first meaningful documentation and analysis of an established technique which aims to obtain an approximate solution to linear programming problems prior to applying the primal simplex method. The underlying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-25 I. L. Galabova , J. A. J. Hall

Relative error estimation has been recently used in regression analysis. A crucial issue of the existing relative error estimation procedures is that they are sensitive to outliers. To address this issue, we employ the $\gamma$-likelihood…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-17 Kei Hirose , Hiroki Masuda

In this work, we propose a new randomized algorithm for computing a low-rank approximation to a given matrix. Taking an approach different from existing literature, our method first involves a specific biased sampling, with an element being…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Prateek Jain , Sujay Sanghavi

Throughout this article the major idea and conclusion is about comparing this method with some very famous methods like fourier series and wavelet, to show that the power of this approximation method is as much as to predicate many natural…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2009-07-28 M. Abolghasemi , F Didehvar , E Safayieh , N. Hashemi

In order to solve an initial value problem by the variational iteration method, a sequence of functions is produced which converges to the solution under some suitable conditions. In the nonlinear case, after a few iterations the terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Ali Tavakoli

Forward-backward methods are a very useful tool for the minimization of a functional given by the sum of a differentiable term and a nondifferentiable one and their investigation has experienced several efforts from many researchers in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Silvia Bonettini , Federica Porta , Valeria Ruggiero

We propose a new approach that combines multiple non-parametric likelihood-type components to build a data-driven approximation of the true likelihood function. Our approach is built on empirical likelihood, a non-parametric approximation…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-15 Adam Jaeger , Nicole Lazar