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January  2021, 41(1): 169-199. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020296

Function approximation via the subsampled Poincaré inequality

Yifan Chen and  Thomas Y. Hou ,

Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech, 91106

* Corresponding author: Thomas Y. Hou

Received  December 2019 Revised  June 2020 Published  January 2021 Early access  August 2020

Fund Project: The research was in part supported by NSF Grants DMS-1912654 and DMS-1907977. Y. Chen is supported by the Kortschak Scholars Program

Function approximation and recovery via some sampled data have long been studied in a wide array of applied mathematics and statistics fields. Analytic tools, such as the Poincaré inequality, have been handy for estimating the approximation errors in different scales. The purpose of this paper is to study a generalized Poincaré inequality, where the measurement function is of subsampled type, with a small but non-zero lengthscale that will be made precise. Our analysis identifies this inequality as a basic tool for function recovery problems. We discuss and demonstrate the optimality of the inequality concerning the subsampled lengthscale, connecting it to existing results in the literature. In application to function approximation problems, the approximation accuracy using different basis functions and under different regularity assumptions is established by using the subsampled Poincaré inequality. We observe that the error bound blows up as the subsampled lengthscale approaches zero, due to the fact that the underlying function is not regular enough to have well-defined pointwise values. A weighted version of the Poincaré inequality is proposed to address this problem; its optimality is also discussed.

Keywords: Poincaré inequality, subsampled data, function approximation and recovery, degeneracy, weighted inequality.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35A23, 41A44; Secondary: 65D05, 65D07, 62G05.
Citation: Yifan Chen, Thomas Y. Hou. Function approximation via the subsampled Poincaré inequality. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2021, 41 (1) : 169-199. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020296
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R. A. Adams, Sobolev Spaces, Academic Press, New York-London, 1975.  Google Scholar

[2]

A. E. Alaoui, X. Cheng, A. Ramdas, M. J. Wainwright and M. I. Jordan, Asymptotic behavior of $l_p$-based laplacian regularization in semi-supervised learning., Conference on Learning Theory, (2016), 879–906. Google Scholar

[3]

G. Alessandrini, A. Morassi and E. Rosset, The linear constraints in poincaré and korn type inequalities, Forum Mathematicum, 20 (2008), 557-569.  doi: 10.1515/FORUM.2008.028.  Google Scholar

[4]

J. Calder, Consistency of lipschitz learning with infinite unlabeled data and finite labeled data, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 1 (2019), 780-812.  doi: 10.1137/18M1199241.  Google Scholar

[5]

J. Calder and D. Slepčev, Properly-weighted graph Laplacian for semi-supervised learning, Applied Mathematics & Optimization, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s00245-019-09637-3.  Google Scholar

[6]

Y. Chen and T. Y. Hou, Multiscale elliptic PDEs upscaling and function approximation via subsampled data, preprint, 2020. Google Scholar

[7]

P. Clément, Approximation by finite element functions using local regularization, Revue Française D'automatique, Informatique, Recherche Opérationnelle. Analyse numérique, 9 (1975), 77–84. Google Scholar

[8]

J. Duchon, Splines minimizing rotation-invariant semi-norms in sobolev spaces, Constructive theory of functions of several variables, 571 (1977), 85-100.   Google Scholar

[9]

L. C. Evans, Partial Differential Equations, Graduate studies in mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2010. doi: 10.1090/gsm/019.  Google Scholar

[10]

D. Gilbarg and N. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, Springer, 2015.  Google Scholar

[11]

R. L. Harder and R. N. Desmarais, Interpolation using surface splines, Journal of aircraft, 9 (1972), 189-191.  doi: 10.2514/3.44330.  Google Scholar

[12]

T. Y. Hou and P. Zhang, Sparse operator compression of higher-order elliptic operators with rough coefficients, Research in the Mathematical Sciences, 4 (2017), No. 24, 49 pp. doi: 10.1186/s40687-017-0113-1.  Google Scholar

[13]

R. Kyng, A. Rao, S. Sachdeva and D. A. Spielman, Algorithms for Lipschitz learning on graphs, Conference on Learning Theory, (2015), 1190–1223. Google Scholar

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M. Ledoux, Poincaré inequalities in probability and geometric analysis, Available from: https://perso.math.univ-toulouse.fr/ledoux/files/2016/05/Poincare100wpause.pdf Google Scholar

[15]

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[16]

A. Målqvist and D. Peterseim, Localization of elliptic multiscale problems, Mathematics of Computation, 83 (2014), 2583-2603.  doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02868-8.  Google Scholar

[17]

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[18]

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H. Owhadi, L. Zhang and L. Berlyand, Polyharmonic homogenization, rough polyharmonic splines and sparse super-localization, ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, 48 (2014), 517-552.  doi: 10.1051/m2an/2013118.  Google Scholar

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H. Poincaré, Sur les Equations aux Dérivées Partielles de la Physique Mathématique, American Journal of Mathematics, 12 (1890), 211-294.  doi: 10.2307/2369620.  Google Scholar

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D. Ruiz, A note on the uniformity of the constant in the poincaré inequality, preprint, arXiv: 1208.6045. Google Scholar

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Z. Shi, S. Osher and W. Zhu, Weighted nonlocal laplacian on interpolation from sparse data, Journal of Scientific Computing, 73 (2017), 1164-1177.  doi: 10.1007/s10915-017-0421-z.  Google Scholar

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D. Slepčev and M. Thorpe., Analysis of p-laplacian regularization in semisupervised learning, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 51 (2019), 2085-2120.  doi: 10.1137/17M115222X.  Google Scholar

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X. Zhou and M. Belkin, Semi-supervised learning by higher order regularization, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, (2011), 892–900. Google Scholar

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W. P. Ziemer, Weakly Differentiable Functions: Sobolev Spaces and Functions of Bounded Variation, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 120. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-1015-3.  Google Scholar

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