Schoenberg characterization of continuous non-stationary isotropic positive definite kernels
Statistics Theory
2025-06-30 v1 Statistics Theory
Abstract
We provide a characterization for the continuous positive definite kernels on that are invariant to linear isometries, i.e. invariant under the orthogonal group . Furthermore, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for these kernels to be strictly positive definite. This class of isotropic kernels is fairly general: First, it unifies stationary isotropic and dot product kernels, and second, it includes neural network kernels that arise from infinite-width limits of neural networks.
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@article{arxiv.2506.22048,
title = {Schoenberg characterization of continuous non-stationary isotropic positive definite kernels},
author = {Felix Benning and Max David Schölpple},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22048},
year = {2025}
}