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We consider discrete linear Chebyshev approximation problems in which the unknown parameters of linear function are fitted by minimizing the maximum absolute deviation of errors. Such problems find application in the solution of…
We address the problem of the best uniform approximation by linear combinations of a finite system of functions. If the system is Chebyshev and the problem is unconstrained, then the classical Remez algorithm provides a fast and precise…
Projection algorithms are well known for their simplicity and flexibility in solving feasibility problems. They are particularly important in practice due to minimal requirements for software implementation and maintenance. In this work, we…
In this paper we demonstrate that a well known linear inequality method developed for rational Chebyshev approximation is equivalent to the application of the bisection method used in quasiconvex optimisation. Although this correspondence…
In this paper we develop an optimisation based approach to multivariate Chebyshev approximation on a finite grid. We consider two models: multivariate polynomial approximation and multivariate generalised rational approximation. In the…
We show how to reduce a general, strictly-feasible LP problem, into a min-max problem, which can be solved by the algorithm from the third section of my thesis.
Given samples of a real or complex-valued function on a set of distinct nodes, the traditional linear Chebyshev approximation is to compute the best minimax approximation on a prescribed linear functional space. Lawson's iteration is a…
We consider the problem of solving a large-scale Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Program. Such problems occur naturally in many scientific and web applications. Although there are efficient methods which tackle this problem, they are…
In this paper we design and analyze algorithms for asynchronously solving linear programs using nonlinear signal processing structures. In particular, we discuss a general procedure for generating these structures such that a fixed-point of…
We consider linear programming (LP) problems in infinite dimensional spaces that are in general computationally intractable. Under suitable assumptions, we develop an approximation bridge from the infinite-dimensional LP to tractable finite…
The low-rank matrix approximation problem is ubiquitous in computational mathematics. Traditionally, this problem is solved in spectral or Frobenius norms, where the accuracy of the approximation is related to the rate of decrease of the…
A Chebyshev expansion is a series in the basis of Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. When such a series solves a linear differential equation, its coefficients satisfy a linear recurrence equation. We interpret this equation as the…
In the regime of bounded transportation costs, additive approximations for the optimal transport problem are reduced (rather simply) to relative approximations for positive linear programs, resulting in faster additive approximation…
The following four classes of computational problems are equivalent: solving matrix games, solving linear programs, best $l^{\infty}$ linear approximation, best $l^1$ linear approximation.
We study the properties of the constructive linear programing problems. The parameters of linear functions in such problems are constructive real numbers. To solve such a problem is to find the optimal plan with the constructive real number…
In this paper, we study a part of approximation theory that presents the conditions under which a closed set in a normed linear space is proximinal or Chebyshev.
Given pointwise samples of an unknown function belonging to a certain model set, one seeks in Optimal Recovery to recover this function in a way that minimizes the worst-case error of the recovery procedure. While it is often known that…
We study a class of countably-infinite-dimensional linear programs (CILPs) whose feasible sets are bounded subsets of appropriately defined spaces of measures. The optimal value, optimal points, and minimal points of these CILPs can be…
A risk-aware decision-making problem can be formulated as a chance-constrained linear program in probability measure space. Chance-constrained linear program in probability measure space is intractable, and no numerical method exists to…
In this paper, the compact linearization approach originally proposed for binary quadratic programs with assignment constraints is generalized to such programs with arbitrary linear equations and inequalities that have positive coefficients…