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The notions of bounded expansion and nowhere denseness not only offer robust and general definitions of uniform sparseness of graphs, they also describe the tractability boundary for several important algorithmic questions. In this paper we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Wojciech Nadara , Marcin Pilipczuk , Roman Rabinovich , Felix Reidl , Sebastian Siebertz

Submodular functions are a fundamental object of study in combinatorial optimization, economics, machine learning, etc. and exhibit a rich combinatorial structure. Many subclasses of submodular functions have also been well studied and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Nikhil R. Devanur , Shaddin Dughmi , Roy Schwartz , Ankit Sharma , Mohit Singh

We investigate the uniform convergence of subdifferential mappings from empirical risk to population risk in nonsmooth, nonconvex stochastic optimization. This question is key to understanding how empirical stationary points approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Feng Ruan

We present a polylogarithmic local computation matching algorithm which guarantees a $(1-\eps)$-approximation to the maximum matching in graphs of bounded degree.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Yishay Mansour , Shai Vardi

We present a constructive approach for approximating the conformal map (uniformization) of a polyhedral surface to a canonical domain in the plane. The main tool is a characterization of convex spaces of quasiconformal simplicial maps and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Yaron Lipman

New asymptotic relations between the $L_p$-errors of best approximation of univariate functions by algebraic polynomials and entire functions of exponential type are obtained for $p\in (0,\iy]$. General asymptotic relations are applied to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Michael I. Ganzburg

We establish asymptotic estimates for exact upper bounds of uniform approximations by Fourier sums on the classes of $2\pi$-periodic functions, which are represented by convolutions of functions $\varphi (\varphi\bot 1)$ from unit ball of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 A. S. Serdyuk , T. A. Stepanyuk

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a broad class of connectionist models for graph processing. Recent studies have shown that GNNs can approximate any function on graphs, modulo the equivalence relation on graphs defined by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Monica Bianchini , Maria Lucia Sampoli , Franco Scarselli

Consider an $s$-dimensional function being evaluated at $n$ points of a low discrepancy sequence (LDS), where the objective is to approximate the one-dimensional functions that result from integrating out $(s-1)$ variables. Here, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Chaitanya Joshi , Paul T. Brown , Stephen Joe

The paper gives a wide range, uniform, local approximation of symmetric binomial distribution. The result clearly shows how one has to modify the the classical de Moivre--Laplace normal approximation in order to give an estimate at the tail…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Tamás Szabados

The approximation properties of the trigonometric sums U_{n,p}^\psi of a special type are investigated on the classes C^\psi_{\beta, \infty} of (\psi,\beta)-differentiable (in the sense of Stepanets) periodical functions. The solution of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-12-18 A. S. Serdyuk , Ie. Yu. Ovsii

We propose a consistent polynomial-time method for the unseeded node matching problem for networks with smooth underlying structures. Despite widely conjectured by the research community that the structured graph matching problem to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-24 Yuan Zhang

Learning to optimize is a rapidly growing area that aims to solve optimization problems or improve existing optimization algorithms using machine learning (ML). In particular, the graph neural network (GNN) is considered a suitable ML model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ziang Chen , Jialin Liu , Xinshang Wang , Jianfeng Lu , Wotao Yin

We consider the problem of estimating a function $s$ on $[-1,1]^{k}$ for large values of $k$ by looking for some best approximation by composite functions of the form $g\circ u$. Our solution is based on model selection and leads to a very…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Yannick Baraud , Lucien Birgé

We introduce GSimCNN (Graph Similarity Computation via Convolutional Neural Networks) for predicting the similarity score between two graphs. As the core operation of graph similarity search, pairwise graph similarity computation is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

A wide range of numerical methods exists for computing polynomial approximations of solutions of ordinary differential equations based on Chebyshev series expansions or Chebyshev interpolation polynomials. We consider the application of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Alexandre Benoit , Mioara Joldes , Marc Mezzarobba

Let $\zeta$ be a real transcendental number. We introduce a new method to find upper bounds for the classical exponent $\widehat{w}_{n}(\zeta)$ concerning uniform polynomial approximation. Our method is based on the parametric geometry of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Johannes Schleischitz

We derive high-probability finite-sample uniform rates of consistency for $k$-NN regression that are optimal up to logarithmic factors under mild assumptions. We moreover show that $k$-NN regression adapts to an unknown lower intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Heinrich Jiang

In this paper we give a lower bound for the least distortion embedding of a distance regular graph into Euclidean space. We use the lower bound for finding the least distortion for Hamming graphs, Johnson graphs, and all strongly regular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-14 Frank Vallentin