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Operator learning, the approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces using machine learning, has gained increasing research attention in recent years. Approximate operators, learned from data, can serve as efficient…

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Operator learning based on neural operators has emerged as a promising paradigm for the data-driven approximation of operators, mapping between infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Despite significant empirical progress, our theoretical…

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This paper studies the learning of linear operators between infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The training data comprises pairs of random input vectors in a Hilbert space and their noisy images under an unknown self-adjoint linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Maarten V. de Hoop , Nikola B. Kovachki , Nicholas H. Nelsen , Andrew M. Stuart

This paper surveys recent developments at the intersection of operator learning, statistical learning theory, and approximation theory. First, it reviews error bounds for empirical risk minimization with a focus on holomorphic operators and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Simone Brugiapaglia , Nicola Rares Franco , Nicholas H. Nelsen

The paper presents analytic expressions of minimax (worst-case) estimates for solutions of linear abstract Neumann problems in Hilbert space with uncertain (not necessarily bounded!) inputs and boundary conditions given incomplete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Alexander Nakonechnyi , Sergiy Zhuk

We generalize the notion of average Lipschitz smoothness proposed by Ashlagi et al. (COLT 2021) by extending it to H\"older smoothness. This measure of the "effective smoothness" of a function is sensitive to the underlying distribution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Steve Hanneke , Aryeh Kontorovich , Guy Kornowski

This paper proposes that Lipschitz continuity is a natural outcome of regularized least squares in kernel-based learning. Lipschitz continuity is an important proxy for robustness of input-output operators. It is also instrumental for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Henk J. van Waarde , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Learning operators between infinitely dimensional spaces is an important learning task arising in wide applications in machine learning, imaging science, mathematical modeling and simulations, etc. This paper studies the nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-04 Hao Liu , Haizhao Yang , Minshuo Chen , Tuo Zhao , Wenjing Liao

We study the approximation and statistical complexity of learning collections of operators in a shared multi-task setting, with a focus on the Multiple Neural Operators (MNO) architecture. For broad classes of Lipschitz multiple operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Adrien Weihs , Hayden Schaeffer

We develop a finite-sample optimal estimator for regression discontinuity design when the outcomes are bounded, including binary outcomes as the leading case. Our estimator achieves minimax mean squared error among linear shrinkage…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-12-29 Takuya Ishihara , Masayuki Sawada , Kohei Yata

Learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces has achieved empirical success in many disciplines of machine learning, including generative modeling, functional data analysis, causal inference, and multi-agent reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jikai Jin , Yiping Lu , Jose Blanchet , Lexing Ying

Estimation problems with constrained parameter spaces arise in various settings. In many of these problems, the observations available to the statistician can be modelled as arising from the noisy realization of the image of a random linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Reese Pathak , Martin J. Wainwright , Lin Xiao

Operator learning has emerged as a new paradigm for the data-driven approximation of nonlinear operators. Despite its empirical success, the theoretical underpinnings governing the conditions for efficient operator learning remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Nikola B. Kovachki , Samuel Lanthaler , Hrushikesh Mhaskar

We obtain risk bounds for Empirical Risk Minimizers (ERM) and minmax Median-Of-Means (MOM) estimators based on loss functions that are both Lipschitz and convex. Results for the ERM are derived without assumptions on the outputs and under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Geoffrey Chinot , Lecué Guillaume , Lerasle Matthieu

We initiate the study of nonsmooth optimization problems under bounded local subgradient variation, which postulates bounded difference between (sub)gradients in small local regions around points, in either average or maximum sense. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Jelena Diakonikolas , Cristóbal Guzmán

We study the problem of designing minimax procedures in linear regression under the quantile risk. We start by considering the realizable setting with independent Gaussian noise, where for any given noise level and distribution of inputs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Ayoub El Hanchi , Chris J. Maddison , Murat A. Erdogdu

This paper characterizes the minimax linear estimator of the value of an unknown function at a boundary point of its domain in a Gaussian white noise model under the restriction that the first-order derivative of the unknown function is…

Econometrics · Economics 2017-10-19 Wayne Yuan Gao

Learning kernels in operators from data lies at the intersection of inverse problems and statistical learning, providing a powerful framework for capturing non-local dependencies in function spaces and high-dimensional settings. In contrast…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sichong Zhang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu

We derive minimax adaptive rates for a new, broad class of Tikhonov-regularized learning problems in Hilbert scales under general source conditions. Our analysis does not require the regression function to be contained in the hypothesis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Prem Talwai , David Simchi-Levi

This study investigates leveraging stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to learn operators between general Hilbert spaces. We propose weak and strong regularity conditions for the target operator to depict its intrinsic structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Lei Shi , Jia-Qi Yang
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