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A simple and very accurate method to approximate a function with a finite number of discontinuities is presented. This method relies on hyperbolic tangent functions of rational arguments as connecting functions at the discontinuities, each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 E. Stella , C. L. Ladera , G. Donoso

We consider approximation or recovery of functions based on a finite number of function evaluations. This is a well-studied problem in optimal recovery, machine learning, and numerical analysis in general, but many fundamental insights were…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 David Krieg , Mario Ullrich

The computation of global radial basis function (RBF) approximations requires the solution of a linear system which, depending on the choice of RBF parameters, may be ill-conditioned. We study the stability and accuracy of approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Ben Adcock , Daan Huybrechs , Cécile Piret

Let $\Lambda$ be a uniformly discrete set and $S$ be a compact set in $R$. We prove that if there exists a bounded sequence of functions in Paley--Wiener space $PW_S$, which approximates $\delta-$functions on $\Lambda$ with $l^2-$error $d$,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-04-03 Alexander Olevskii , Alexander Ulanovskii

This paper has two aims, first one is to introduce special kind of proximal contractions guaranteeing a finite number of best proximity points, and second one is to derive best proximity point results for perimetric contractions. To meet…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Hiranmoy Garai , Evgeniy Petrov , Pratikshan Mondal , Lakshmi Kanta Dey

We consider a unique continuation problem where the Dirichlet trace of the solution is known to have finite dimension. We prove Lipschitz stability of the unique continuation problem and design a finite element method that exploits the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen

Spectral graph bisections are a popular heuristic aimed at approximating the solution of the NP-complete graph bisection problem. This technique, however, does not always provide a robust tool for graph partitioning. Using a special class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-22 John C. Urschel , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

We study the Bergman determinantal point process from a theoretical point of view motivated by its simulation. We construct restricted and restricted-truncated variants of the Bergman kernel and show optimal transport inequalities involving…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 William Driot , Laurent Decreusefond

We investigate the properties of minimizers of one-dimensional variational problems when the Lagrangian has no higher smoothness than continuity. An elementary approximation result is proved, but it is shown that this cannot be in general…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Richard Gratwick

By a method inspired of the Stein's method, we derive an upper-bound of the Rubinstein distance between two absolutely continuous probability measures on configurations space. As an application, we show that the best way to approximate a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-04 Laurent Decreusefond , Nicolas Savy

A fully implementable filtered polynomial approximation on spherical shells is considered. The method proposed is a quadrature-based version of a filtered polynomial approximation. The radial direction and the angular direction of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Yoshihito Kazashi

We introduce a numerical method for the approximation of functions which are analytic on compact intervals, except at the endpoints. This method is based on variable transforms using particular parametrized exponential and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Ben Adcock , Jésus Martín-Vaquero , Mark Richardson

We propose convex optimization algorithms to recover a good approximation of a point measure $\mu$ on the unit sphere $S\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ from its moments with respect to a set of real-valued functions $f_1,\dots, f_m$. Given a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Hernán García , Camilo Hernández , Mauricio Junca , Mauricio Velasco

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

We give direct and inverse theorems for the weighted approximation of functions with inner singularities by combinations of Bernstein polynomials.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-04-25 Wen-Ming Lu , Lin Zhang

For conforming finite element approximations of the Laplacian eigenfunctions, a fully computable guaranteed error bound in the $L^2$ norm sense is proposed. The bound is based on the a priori error estimate for the Galerkin projection of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Xuefeng Liu , Tomáš Vejchodský

The likelihood function of a finite mixture model is a non-convex function with multiple local maxima and commonly used iterative algorithms such as EM will converge to different solutions depending on initial conditions. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Elad Mezuman , Yair Weiss

We improve recently published results about resources of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) and Deep Belief Networks (DBN) required to make them Universal Approximators. We show that any distribution p on the set of binary vectors of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-07-27 Guido Montufar , Nihat Ay

The paper concerns multiobjective linear optimization problems in R^n that are parameterized with respect to the right-hand side perturbations of inequality constraints. Our focus is on measuring the variation of the feasible set and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-24 María J. Cánovas , Marco A. López , Boris Mordukhovich , Juan Parra

We study linear function approximation in a finite basis under finite-precision arithmetic. In a highly non-orthogonal basis, certain directions are only weakly represented, so that rounding errors can significantly distort the effectively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Astrid Herremans , Daan Huybrechs