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This paper presents a kernel-based framework for physics-informed nonlinear system identification. The key contribution is a structured methodology that extends kernel-based techniques to seamlessly embed partially known physics-based…

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Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are a cornerstone of supervised learning, widely used for data classification. A central component of their success lies in kernel functions, which enable efficient computation of inner products in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 A. Mandilara , A. D. Papadopoulos , D. Syvridis

This paper presents an algorithm, Voted Kernel Regularization , that provides the flexibility of using potentially very complex kernel functions such as predictors based on much higher-degree polynomial kernels, while benefitting from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Corinna Cortes , Prasoon Goyal , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Mehryar Mohri

Spectral clustering is known as a powerful technique in unsupervised data analysis. The vast majority of approaches to spectral clustering are driven by a single modality, leaving the rich information in multi-modal representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Peng , Yuanwei Hu , Bo Liu , Ling Chen , Jie Lu , Zhen Fang

An integral equation is a way to encapsulate the relationships between a function and its integrals. We develop a systematic way of describing Volterra integral equations -- specifically an algorithm that reduces any separable Volterra…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Richard Gustavson , Sarah Rosen

The R package CVEK introduces a suite of flexible machine learning models and robust hypothesis tests for learning the joint nonlinear effects of multiple covariates in limited samples. It implements the Cross-validated Ensemble of Kernels…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-22 Wenying Deng , Jeremiah Zhe Liu , Erin Lake , Brent A. Coull

Results from global sensitivity analysis (GSA) often guide the understanding of complicated input-output systems. Kernel-based GSA methods have recently been proposed for their capability of treating a broad scope of complex systems. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-09 John Barr , Herschel Rabitz

Learning from structured multi-way data, represented as higher-order tensors, requires capturing complex interactions across tensor modes while remaining computationally efficient. We introduce Uncertainty-driven Kernel Tensor Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Lei Wang , Xi Ding , Yongsheng Gao , Piotr Koniusz

Prototype-based methods are of the particular interest for domain specialists and practitioners as they summarize a dataset by a small set of representatives. Therefore, in a classification setting, interpretability of the prototypes is as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer

Variational methods are widely used for approximate posterior inference. However, their use is typically limited to families of distributions that enjoy particular conjugacy properties. To circumvent this limitation, we propose a family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Samuel Gershman , Matt Hoffman , David Blei

Kernel methods are powerful for machine learning, as they can represent data in feature spaces that similarities between samples may be faithfully captured. Recently, it is realized that machine learning enhanced by quantum computing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Long Hin Li , Dan-Bo Zhang , Z. D. Wang

We propose a data-driven framework to learn interaction kernels in stochastic multi-agent systems. Our approach aims at identifying the functional form of nonlocal interaction and diffusion terms directly from trajectory data, without any a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Giacomo Albi , Alessandro Alla , Elisa Calzola

Applying machine learning to biological sequences - DNA, RNA and protein - has enormous potential to advance human health, environmental sustainability, and fundamental biological understanding. However, many existing machine learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-11 Alan Nawzad Amin , Eli Nathan Weinstein , Debora Susan Marks

Deep learning methods, in particular convolutional neural networks, have emerged as a powerful tool in medical image computing tasks. While these complex models provide excellent performance, their black-box nature may hinder real-world…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yuzhe Lu , Adam Perer

Understanding the computations of convolutional neural networks requires effective visualization of their kernels. While maximal activation methods have proven successful in highlighting the preferred features of 2D convolutional kernels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chunpeng Li , Ya-tang Li

Being able to interpret, or explain, the predictions made by a machine learning model is of fundamental importance. This is especially true when there is interest in deploying data-driven models to make high-stakes decisions, e.g. in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 An-phi Nguyen , María Rodríguez Martínez

We propose a novel approach to image classification inspired by complex nonlinear biological visual processing, whereby classical convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are equipped with learnable higher-order convolutions. Our model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Simone Azeglio , Olivier Marre , Peter Neri , Ulisse Ferrari

We consider the problem of operator-valued kernel learning and investigate the possibility of going beyond the well-known separable kernels. Borrowing tools and concepts from the field of quantum computing, such as partial trace and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Riikka Huusari , Hachem Kadri

The research is devoted to a numerical solution of the Volterra equations of the first kind that were obtained using the Laplace integral transforms for solving the equation of heat conduction. The paper consists of an introduction and two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Svetlana V. Solodusha , Igor V. Mokry

We propose a technique for reformulation of state and parameter estimation problems as that of matching explicitly computable definite integrals with known kernels to data. The technique applies for a class of systems of nonlinear ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-11 I. Yu. Tyukin , A. N. Gorban