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Regularized empirical risk minimization using kernels and their corresponding reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) plays an important role in machine learning. However, the actually used kernel often depends on one or on a few…

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In this paper we combine the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with the field of collocation methods to solve boundary value problems with special emphasis on reproducing property of kernels. From the reproducing property of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Babak Azarnavid , Mahdi Emamjome , Mohammad Nabati , Saeid Abbasbandy

Suppose H is a space of functions on X. If H is a Hilbert space with reproducing kernel then that structure of H can be used to build distance functions on X. We describe some of those and their interpretations and interrelations. We also…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Nicola Arcozzi , Richard Rochberg , Eric T. Sawyer , Brett D. Wick

With the advent of kernel methods, automating the task of specifying a suitable kernel has become increasingly important. In this context, the Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem of finding a combination of pre-specified base kernels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Abhishek Kumar , Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Hal Daume

Given only information in the form of similarity triplets "Object A is more similar to object B than to object C" about a data set, we propose two ways of defining a kernel function on the data set. While previous approaches construct a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Matthäus Kleindessner , Ulrike von Luxburg

Learning with kernels is an important concept in machine learning. Standard approaches for kernel methods often use predefined kernels that require careful selection of hyperparameters. To mitigate this burden, we propose in this paper a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yufan Zhou , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

This paper introduces kernel continual learning, a simple but effective variant of continual learning that leverages the non-parametric nature of kernel methods to tackle catastrophic forgetting. We deploy an episodic memory unit that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani , Xiantong Zhen , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek

We develop a framework for function classes generated by parametric ridge kernels: one-dimensional kernels composed with affine projections and averaged over a parameter measure. The induced kernels are positive definite, and the resulting…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 James Tian

We develop an approach for feature elimination in statistical learning with kernel machines, based on recursive elimination of features.We present theoretical properties of this method and show that it is uniformly consistent in finding the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-29 Sayan Dasgupta , Yair Goldberg , Michael Kosorok

Quantum kernels quantify similarity between data points by measuring the inner product between quantum states, computed through quantum circuit measurements. By embedding data into quantum systems, quantum kernel feature maps, that may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Joachim Tomasi , Sandrine Anthoine , Hachem Kadri

Interpolation and approximation of functionals with conditionally positive definite kernels is considered on sets of centers that are not determining for polynomials. It is shown that polynomial consistency is sufficient in order to define…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Oleg Davydov

Kernel methods have been widely applied to machine learning and other questions of approximating an unknown function from its finite sample data. To ensure arbitrary accuracy of such approximation, various denseness conditions are imposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-25 Benxun Wang , Haizhang Zhang

We develop sampling formulas for high-dimensional functions in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, where we rely on irregular samples that are taken at determining sequences of data points. We place particular emphasis on sampling formulas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Armin Iske , Lennart Ohlsen

We use a classical characterisation to prove that functions which are bounded away from zero cannot be elements of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces whose reproducing kernels decays to zero in a suitable way. The result is used to study…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Toni Karvonen

Models like support vector machines or Gaussian process regression often require positive semi-definite kernels. These kernels may be based on distance functions. While definiteness is proven for common distances and kernels, a proof for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Günter Rudolph

Kernel method in machine learning consists of encoding input data into a vector in a Hilbert space called the feature space and modeling the target function as a linear map on the feature space. Given a cost function, computing such an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Salman Beigi

This monograph studies the relations between two approaches using positive definite kernels: probabilistic methods using Gaussian processes, and non-probabilistic methods using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). They are widely…

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Many scientific problems involve data exhibiting both temporal and cross-sectional dependencies. While linear dependencies have been extensively studied, the theoretical analysis of regression estimators under nonlinear dependencies remains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Marie-Christine Düker , Adam Waterbury

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces provide a foundational framework for kernel-based learning, where regularization and interpolation problems admit finite-dimensional solutions through classical representer theorems. Many modern learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Isabel de la Higuera , Francisco Herrera , M. Victoria Velasco

We investigate statistical properties for a broad class of modern kernel-based regression (KBR) methods. These kernel methods were developed during the last decade and are inspired by convex risk minimization in infinite-dimensional Hilbert…

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