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Conditional expectation using compactification operators

Machine Learning 2024-02-15 v4 Machine Learning Functional Analysis Probability

Abstract

The separate tasks of denoising, least squares expectation, and manifold learning can often be posed in a common setting of finding the conditional expectations arising from a product of two random variables. This paper focuses on this more general problem and describes an operator theoretic approach to estimating the conditional expectation. Kernel integral operators are used as a compactification tool, to set up the estimation problem as a linear inverse problem in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. This equation is shown to have solutions that allow numerical approximation, thus guaranteeing the convergence of data-driven implementations. The overall technique is easy to implement, and their successful application to some real-world problems are also shown.

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@article{arxiv.2306.10592,
  title  = {Conditional expectation using compactification operators},
  author = {Suddhasattwa Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10592},
  year   = {2024}
}