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We study the problem of space and time efficient evaluation of a nonparametric estimator that approximates an unknown density. In the regime where consistent estimation is possible, we use a piecewise multivariate polynomial interpolation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Paxton Turner , Jingbo Liu , Philippe Rigollet

Interpolation of data on non-Euclidean spaces is an active research area fostered by its numerous applications. This work considers the Hermite interpolation problem: finding a sufficiently smooth manifold curve that interpolates a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Axel Séguin , Daniel Kressner

In approximation of functions based on point values, least-squares methods provide more stability than interpolation, at the expense of increasing the sampling budget. We show that near-optimal approximation error can nevertheless be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Abdellah Chkifa , Matthieu Dolbeault

Subdivision surfaces are considered as an extension of splines to accommodate models with complex topologies, making them useful for addressing PDEs on models with complex topologies in isogeometric analysis. This has generated a lot of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Hailun Xu , Hongmei Kang

In areas such as kernel smoothing and non-parametric regression there is emphasis on smooth interpolation and smooth statistical models. Splines are known to have optimal smoothness properties in one and higher dimensions. It is shown, with…

Computation · Statistics 2008-09-29 Ron A. Bates , Hugo Maruri-Aguilar , Henry P. Wynn

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 propose a method called ideal regression for approximating an arbitrary system of polynomial equations by a system of a particular type. Using techniques from approximate computational algebraic geometry, we show how we can solve ideal…

In this work, we address the problem of polynomial interpolation of non-pointwise data. More specifically, we assume that our input information comes from measurements obtained on diffuse compact domains. Although the nodal and the diffused…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Ludovico Bruni Bruno , Stefano De Marchi , Giacomo Elefante

Quasi-equilibrium approximation is a widely used closure approximation approach for model reduction with applications in complex fluids, materials science, etc. It is based on the maximum entropy principle and leads to thermodynamically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Shan Jiang , Haijun Yu

Motivated by applications to acoustic imaging, the present work establishes a framework to analyze scattering for the one-dimensional wave, Helmholtz, Schr\"odinger and Riccati equations that allows for coefficients which are more singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter C. Gibson

This paper proposes and studies a numerical method for approximation of posterior expectations based on interpolation with a Stein reproducing kernel. Finite-sample-size bounds on the approximation error are established for posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Alessandro Barp , Chris. J. Oates , Emilio Porcu , Mark Girolami

In this paper we present an algorithm to reduce the area of a surface spanned by a finite number of boundary curves by initiating a variational improvement in the surface. The ansatz we suggest consists of original surface plus a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Daud Ahmad , Bilal Masud

In this work, we study the Hermite interpolation on $n$-dimensional non-equally spaced, rectilinear grids over a field $\Bbbk $ of characteristic zero, given the values of the function at each point of the grid and the partial derivatives…

We consider approximating analytic functions on the interval $[-1,1]$ from their values at a set of $m+1$ equispaced nodes. A result of Platte, Trefethen \& Kuijlaars states that fast and stable approximation from equispaced samples is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Ben Adcock , Alexei Shadrin

This paper is devoted to the construction of polynomial 2-surfaces which possess a polynomial area element. In particular we study these surfaces in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^3$ (where they are equivalent to the PN surfaces) and in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Michal Bizzarri , Miroslav Lávička , Zbyňek Šír , Jan Vršek

This paper introduces an interpolation-based method, called the reconstruction approach, for nonparametric regression. Based on the fact that interpolation usually has negligible errors compared to statistical estimation, the reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-28 Shifeng Xiong

This paper contains a review of available methods for establishing improved interpolation inequalities on the sphere for subcritical exponents. Pushing further these techniques we also establish some new results, clarify the range of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Michal Kowalczyk , Michael Loss

We construct interpolation operators for functions taking values in a symmetric space -- a smooth manifold with an inversion symmetry about every point. Key to our construction is the observation that every symmetric space can be realized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Evan Gawlik , Melvin Leok

Spline interpolation is a widely used class of methods for solving interpolation problems by constructing smooth interpolants that minimize a regularized energy functional involving the Laplacian operator. While many existing approaches…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-30 Charlie Sire , Mike Pereira , Thomas Romary

A new method, called the method of self-similar approximants, and its recent developments are described. The method is based on the ideas of renormalization group theory and optimal control theory. It allows for the effective extrapolation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova