 ##  [Empirical Interpolation Method](/index.php/empirical-interpolation-method) 

  ##  [Empirical Interpolation Method](https://mathlogic.quantumdictionary.io/empirical-interpolation-method-0) 

  
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Definition

A projection-based procedure that constructs empirical basis functions together with a set of interpolation nodes (or degrees of freedom) chosen by a greedy algorithm to approximate parameter-dependent or nonlinear operators efficiently in a reduced-order setting.