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Unlock: Thin-Plate Splines

Smoothing splines in two and higher dimensions. Penalize integrated squared second-derivative magnitude across the surface; the minimizer is a sum of radial basis functions plus a low-degree polynomial. Green-Silverman 1994 and Wahba 1990 are the canonical references.

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