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When performing classification tasks, raw high dimensional features often contain redundant information, and lead to increased computational complexity and overfitting. In this paper, we assume the data samples lie on a single underlying…

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In this paper we propose a new deterministic approximation method, called discretization approximation, for Bayesian computation. Discretization approximation is very simple to understand and to implement, It only requires calculating…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-13 Shifeng Xiong

This paper presents a detailed theoretical analysis of the three stochastic approximation proximal gradient algorithms proposed in our companion paper [49] to set regularization parameters by marginal maximum likelihood estimation. We prove…

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We introduce a discretization scheme for continuous localized frames using quasi-Monte Carlo integration and discrepancy theory. By generalizing classical concepts, we define a discrepancy measure on the entire phase space $\mathbb{R}^2$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jan Zimmermann , Andreas Klotz , Nicki Holighaus

Approximating a function with a finite series, e.g., involving polynomials or trigonometric functions, is a critical tool in computing and data analysis. The construction of such approximations via now-standard approaches like least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Dihan Dai , Yekaterina Epshteyn , Akil Narayan

A lower semi-definite self-adjoint linear operator in a Hilbert space is taken whose discrete spectrum is not empty and comprises at least several eigenvalues $\lambda_{min}=\lambda_1\leqslant\ldots\leqslant\lambda_m<\sigma_{ess}$. The…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Ruslan Sharipov

A convincing feature of least-squares finite element methods is the built-in a posteriori error estimator for any conforming discretization. In order to generalize this property to discontinuous finite element ansatz functions, this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Philipp Bringmann

Kernel methods are learning algorithms that enjoy solid theoretical foundations while suffering from important computational limitations. Sketching, which consists in looking for solutions among a subspace of reduced dimension, is a well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-07 Tamim El Ahmad , Pierre Laforgue , Florence d'Alché-Buc

When uncertainty meets costly information gathering, a fundamental question emerges: which data points should we probe to unlock near-optimal solutions? Sparsification of stochastic packing problems addresses this trade-off. The existing…

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Sub-Bergman Hilbert spaces are analogues of de Branges-Rovnyak spaces in the Bergman space setting. They are reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces contractively contained in the Bergman space of the unit disk. K. Zhu analyzed sub-Bergman…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Cheng Chu

We describe an implicit sparsity-inducing mechanism based on minimization over a family of kernels: \begin{equation*} \min_{\beta, f}~\widehat{\mathbb{E}}[L(Y, f(\beta^{1/q} \odot X)] + \lambda_n \|f\|_{\mathcal{H}_q}^2~~\text{subject…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-13 Michael I. Jordan , Keli Liu , Feng Ruan

We study three well-known minimization problems in Hilbert spaces: the weighted least squares problem and the related problems of abstract splines and smoothing. In each case we analyze the solvability of the problem for every point of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Maximiliano Contino , Maria Eugenia Di Iorio y Lucero , Guillermina Fongi

We prove $p$-robust approximation error estimates for $H^2$-conforming isogeometric discretizations over planar multi-patch domains. Possible applications are fourth order boundary value problems, like the biharmonic equation or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Fatima Hasanova , Stefan Takacs , Thomas Takacs

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are standard convex problems that are frequently found in control and optimization applications. Interior-point methods can solve SDPs in polynomial time up to arbitrary accuracy, but scale poorly as the size of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Jared Miller , Yang Zheng , Mario Sznaier , Antonis Papachristodoulou

The typical approach for recovery of spatially correlated signals is regularized least squares with a coupled regularization term. In the Bayesian framework, this algorithm is seen as a maximum-a-posterior estimator whose postulated prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ali Bereyhi , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Ralf R. Müller

For the Poisson equation posed in a domain containing a large number of polygonal perforations, we propose a low-dimensional coarse approximation space based on a coarse polygonal partitioning of the domain. Similarly to other multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Miranda Boutilier , Konstantin Brenner , Victorita Dolean

We introduce a new approach to spectral sparsification that approximates the quadratic form of the pseudoinverse of a graph Laplacian restricted to a subspace. We show that sparsifiers with a near-linear number of edges in the dimension of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Huan Li , Aaron Schild

In this paper we investigate the connection between supervised learning and linear inverse problems. We first show that a linear inverse problem can be view as a function approximation problem in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Sabrina Guastavino , Federico Benvenuto

We study distributed learning with the least squares regularization scheme in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). By a divide-and-conquer approach, the algorithm partitions a data set into disjoint data subsets, applies the least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Shao-Bo Lin , Xin Guo , Ding-Xuan Zhou