Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 326 2 2 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
With exact data , the iteration error obeysThe source condition for quadratic regularization excludes any null space component. Using its singular system of a compact operator coefficients,By Bernoulli's inequality, . Also . ThereforeSumming the squared coefficients and using Bessel inequality yieldsThis is an a priori error rate from the source condition for quadratic regularization, with constant independent of .
For exact data , each factor tends to zero. The Picard criterion makes square summable, while is uniformly bounded. The dominated convergence theorem on the resulting series yields .
For noisy data with , the filter representation givesIndeed, when , Bernoulli's inequality gives ; when , the quotient is uniformly bounded because . Hence the triangle inequality giveswhich proves that early-stopped Landweber iteration is a convergent regularization of an inverse problem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 223 4 b Solution 2026-09-28
Replace the same last vectors by . Applying part a to each independent Gaussian coordinate shows that the probability its contaminated coordinate median exceeds is at least . Independence across coordinates and Bernoulli's inequality giveFor sufficiently large as a function of and , the last expression is at least . On this event,which proves the stated lower bound for the supremum over adversarial perturbations.