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The reciprocal function, 1/x, is important for many real-time algorithms. It is used in a large variety of algorithms from areas ranging from iterative estimation to machine learning. Many of these algorithms are iterative in nature and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Michael Lunglmayr , Oliver Ploder

In this paper we consider the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) problem: given an (elementwise) nonnegative matrix $V \in \R_+^{m\times n}$ find, for assigned $k$, nonnegative matrices $W\in\R_+^{m\times k}$ and $H\in\R_+^{k\times n}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Lorenzo Finesso , Peter Spreij

Purpose of writing this paper is to solve a transcendental function containing a product of a variable and its double exponential by a unique method of approximation. If the value of the said product is given, then its inverse function is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Narinder Kumar Wadhawan

The main aim of this paper is to develop a new algorithm for computing nonnegative low rank tensor approximation for nonnegative tensors that arise in many multi-dimensional imaging applications. Nonnegativity is one of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Tai-Xiang Jiang , Michael K. Ng , Junjun Pan , Guangjing Song

The optimization of submodular functions on the integer lattice has received much attention recently, but the objective functions of many applications are non-submodular. We provide two approximation algorithms for maximizing a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Alan Kuhnle , J. David Smith , Victoria G. Crawford , My T. Thai

We prove that every nonnegative continuous real-valued function on a given compact metric space is the uniform limit of some increasing sequence of nonnegative simple functions being linear combinations of indicators of open sets; here the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Yu-Lin Chou

We call an $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}$ regainingly approximable if there exists a computable nondecreasing sequence $(a_n)_n$ of rational numbers converging to $\alpha$ with $\alpha - a_n < 2^{-n}$ for infinitely many $n \in \mathbb{N}$. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Peter Hertling , Rupert Hölzl , Philip Janicki

This paper is concerned with the ubiquitous inverse problem of recovering an unknown function u from finitely many measurements possibly affected by noise. In recent years, inversion methods based on linear approximation spaces were…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Albert Cohen , Matthieu Dolbeault , Olga Mula , Agustin Somacal

The maximum function, on vectors of real numbers, is not differentiable. Consequently, several differentiable approximations of this function are popular substitutes. We survey three smooth functions which approximate the maximum function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Taylor Brysiewicz , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Caroline Hills

A new type of combinations of Bernstein operators is given in [1]. Here, we introduce another one, which can be used to approximate the functions with singularities. The direct and inverse results of the weighted approximation of this new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Wen-ming Lu , Lin Zhang

In this note we associate a sequence of non-negative integers to any convergent series of positive real numbers and study this sequence for the series $\sum_{n \geq 1} n^{-k}$ where $k$ is an integer $\geq 2$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Soumyadip Sahu

The study of solving the inverse eigenvalue problem for nonnegative matrices has been around for decades. It is clear that an inverse eigenvalue problem is trivial if the desirable matrix is not restricted to a certain structure. Provided…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Matthew M. Lin

We consider the problem of directly optimizing a non-linear function of an outcome, where this outcome itself is the sum of many small contributions. The non-linearity of the function means that the problem is not equivalent to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Benjamin Heymann , Otmane Sakhi

Tame functions are a class of nonsmooth, nonconvex functions, which feature in a wide range of applications: functions encountered in the training of deep neural networks with all common activations, value functions of mixed-integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Gilles Bareilles , Johannes Aspman , Jiri Nemecek , Jakub Marecek

We introduce another new type of combinations of Bernstein operators in this paper, which can be used to approximate the functions with inner singularities. The direct and inverse results of the weighted approximation of this new type…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Wen-ming Lu , Lin Zhang

To edit a real photo using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), we need a GAN inversion algorithm to identify the latent vector that perfectly reproduces it. Unfortunately, whereas existing inversion algorithms can synthesize images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Qianli Feng , Viraj Shah , Raghudeep Gadde , Pietro Perona , Aleix Martinez

We introduce and study new refinements of inversion statistics for permutations, such as k-step inversions, (the number of inversions with fixed position differences) and non-inversion sums (the sum of the differences of positions of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Joshua Sack , Henning Úlfarsson

We introduce a new type of Bernstein operators, which can be used to approximate the functions with inner singularities. The direct and inverse results of the weighted approximation of this new type of combinations are given.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Wen-ming Lu , Lin Zhang

This paper presents a polynomial-time $1/2$-approximation algorithm for maximizing nonnegative $k$-submodular functions. This improves upon the previous $\max\{1/3, 1/(1+a)\}$-approximation by Ward and \v{Z}ivn\'y~(SODA'14), where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Satoru Iwata , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Yuichi Yoshida

The problem of maximizing non-negative monotone submodular functions under a certain constraint has been intensively studied in the last decade. In this paper, we address the problem for functions defined over the integer lattice. Suppose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Tasuku Soma , Yuichi Yoshida