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  1. I recently read two interesting survey articles by my academic brother Ben Adcock at Simon Fraser University about theoretical aspect of sampling: how to approximate a function 𝑓 given random point samples 𝑓(𝑥ᵢ) with noise. This is a fundamental problem in Machine Learning.

    The first paper, "Learning smooth functions in high dimensions: from sparse polynomials to deep neural networks" (by Ben and co-authors), is about how fast the approximation error may decrease as you take more samples. We can overcome the curse of dimensionality if the function gets increasingly smooth in higher dimensions. URL: arxiv.org/abs/2404.03761

    The second paper, "Optimal sampling for least-squares approximation", is about choosing where to sample in order to get as close to the unknown function (in least-square sense) as possible. arxiv.org/abs/2409.02342

    #MachineLearning #ApproximationTheory #NumericalAnalysis

  2. This chocolate reminded me of Bernstein ellipses, which govern how fast the Chebyshev approximation converges to a function.

    #MathsIsEverywhere #OccupationalHazard #ApproximationTheory

  3. This chocolate reminded me of Bernstein ellipses, which govern how fast the Chebyshev approximation converges to a function.

    #MathsIsEverywhere #OccupationalHazard #ApproximationTheory

  4. This chocolate reminded me of Bernstein ellipses, which govern how fast the Chebyshev approximation converges to a function.

    #MathsIsEverywhere #OccupationalHazard #ApproximationTheory

  5. This chocolate reminded me of Bernstein ellipses, which govern how fast the Chebyshev approximation converges to a function.

    #MathsIsEverywhere #OccupationalHazard #ApproximationTheory

  6. This chocolate reminded me of Bernstein ellipses, which govern how fast the Chebyshev approximation converges to a function.

    #MathsIsEverywhere #OccupationalHazard #ApproximationTheory