The AM uses a one dimensional smoother to build a restricted class of nonparametric regression models.
In 1952 Ennio de Giorgi presented his first results, developing the ideas of Caccioppoli, on the definition of the measure of boundaries of sets at the Salzburg Congress of the Austrian Mathematical Society: he obtained this results by using a smoothing operator, analogous to a mollifier, constructed from the Gaussian function, independently proving some results of Caccioppoli.
Rule of succession, a smoothing technique accounting for unseen data.
Möödakarvapai (A Smoothing Caress) is the fifth Dagö album, released in 2008.
There is also an older method called Kantorovich iteration that uses Newton's method directly (without the introduction of smoothing operators).
These particles have a spatial distance (known as the "smoothing length", typically represented in equations by ), over which their properties are "smoothed" by a kernel function.