$$L_2$$-Approximation Using Median Lattice Algorithms

Abstract In this paper, we study the problem of multivariate $$L_2$$ L 2 -approximation of functions belonging to a weighted Korobov space. We propose and analyze a median lattice-based algorithm, inspired by median integration rules, which have attracted significant attention in the theory of quasi-Monte Carlo methods. Our algorithm approximates the Fourier coefficients associated with a suitably chosen frequency index set, where each coefficient is estimated by taking the median over approximations from randomly shifted rank-1 lattice rules with independently chosen generating vectors. We prove that the algorithm achieves, with high probability, a convergence rate of the $$L_2$$ L 2 -approximation error that is arbitrarily close to optimal with respect to the number of function evaluations. Furthermore, we show that the error bound depends only polynomially on the dimension, or is even independent of the dimension, under certain summability conditions on the weights. Numerical experiments illustrate the performance of the proposed median lattice-based algorithm.