Charles A. Micchelli

Dinh Dũng, Charles A. Micchelli, Vu Nhat Huy

We study approximation by arbitrary linear combinations of $n$ translates of a single function of periodic functions. We construct some methods of this approximation for functions in a class induced by the convolution with a given function, and prove upper bounds of $L_p$-the approximation convergence rate by these methods, when $n \to \infty$, for $1 < p < \infty$, and lower bounds of the quantity of best approximation of this class by arbitrary linear combinations of $n$ translates of arbitrary function, for the particular case $p=2$.

Andreas Argyriou, Luca Baldassarre, Charles A. Micchelli et al.

During the past years there has been an explosion of interest in learning methods based on sparsity regularization. In this paper, we discuss a general class of such methods, in which the regularizer can be expressed as the composition of a convex function $ω$ with a linear function. This setting includes several methods such the group Lasso, the Fused Lasso, multi-task learning and many more. We present a general approach for solving regularization problems of this kind, under the assumption that the proximity operator of the function $ω$ is available. Furthermore, we comment on the application of this approach to support vector machines, a technique pioneered by the groundbreaking work of Vladimir Vapnik.