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We discuss recent results on the complexity and tractability of problems dealing with ∞-variate functions. Such problems, especially path integrals, arise in many areas including mathematical finance, quantum physics and chemistry, and stochastic differential equations. It is possible to replace the ∞-variate problem by one that has only d variables since the difference between the two problems diminishes with d approaching infinity. Therefore, one could use algorithms obtained in the Information-Based Complexity study, where problems with arbitrarily large but fixed d have been analyzed. However, to get the optimal results, the choice of a specific value of d should be a part of an efficient algorithm. This is why the approach discussed in the present paper is called liberating the dimension. Such a choice should depend on the cost of sampling d-variate functions and on the error demand \(\epsilon \). Actually, as recently observed for a specific class of problems, optimal algorithms are from a family of changing dimension algorithms which approximate ∞-variate functions by a combination of special functions, each depending on a different set of variables. Moreover, each such set contains no more than \(d(\epsilon ) = \mathcal{O}(\ln (1/\epsilon )/\ln (\ln (1/\epsilon )))\) variables. This is why the new algorithms have the total cost polynomial in \(1/\epsilon \) even if the cost of sampling a d-variate function is exponential in d.
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The results of [33] hold for general Hilbert spaces F. We restrict the attention to RKH spaces to simplify the presentation.
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Wasilkowski, G.W. (2012). Liberating the Dimension for Function Approximation and Integration. In: Plaskota, L., Woźniakowski, H. (eds) Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2010. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27440-4_9
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