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Kernel mean embeddings are a popular tool that consists in representing probability measures by their infinite-dimensional mean embeddings in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. When the kernel is characteristic, mean embeddings can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Boris Muzellec , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

Kernel methods are of current interest in quantum machine learning due to similarities with quantum computing in how they process information in high-dimensional feature (Hilbert) spaces. Kernels are believed to offer particular advantages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Carolyn Wood , Sally Shrapnel , G J Milburn

We introduce and study a class $\mathcal{M}$ of generalized positive definite kernels of the form $K\colon X\times X\to L(\mathfrak{A},L(H))$, where $\mathfrak{A}$ is a unital $C^{*}$-algebra and $H$ a Hilbert space. These kernels encode…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , James Tian

Supervised learning in reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) and vector-valued RKHS (vvRKHS) has been investigated for more than 30 years. In this paper, we provide a new twist to this rich literature by generalizing supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Yuka Hashimoto , Masahiro Ikeda , Hachem Kadri

Kernel methods map data into high-dimensional spaces, enabling linear algorithms to learn nonlinear functions without explicitly storing the feature vectors. Quantum kernel methods promise efficient learning by encoding feature maps into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Vivek Sabarad , Vishal Varma , T. S. Mahesh

The problem of establishing out-of-sample bounds for the values of an unkonwn ground-truth function is considered. Kernels and their associated Hilbert spaces are the main formalism employed herein along with an observational model where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Paul Scharnhorst , Emilio T. Maddalena , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones

The distribution regression problem encompasses many important statistics and machine learning tasks, and arises in a large range of applications. Among various existing approaches to tackle this problem, kernel methods have become a method…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 François Bachoc , Louis Béthune , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

Quantum kernel method is one of the key approaches to quantum machine learning, which has the advantages that it does not require optimization and has theoretical simplicity. By virtue of these properties, several experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Norihito Shirai , Kenji Kubo , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

We present decompositions of various positive kernels as integrals or sums of positive kernels. Within this framework we study the reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces associated with the fractional and bi-fractional Brownian motions. As a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Alpay , David Levanony

In this work, we investigate the generalization properties of random feature methods. Our analysis extends prior results for Tikhonov regularization to a broad class of spectral regularization techniques and further generalizes the setting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

Most machine learning algorithms, such as classification or regression, treat the individual data point as the object of interest. Here we consider extending machine learning algorithms to operate on groups of data points. We suggest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Danica J. Sutherland , Liang Xiong , Barnabás Póczos , Jeff Schneider

We do a preliminary study of the reproducing kernel Hilbert space having as kernel $k^d$, where $d$ is a positive integer and $k$ is the reproducing kernel of the analytic Dirichlet space.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Nicola Arcozzi , Karl-Mikael Perfekt , Pavel Mozolyako , Stefan Richter , Giulia Sarfatti

We study reproducing kernels, and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) $\mathscr{H}$ over infinite, discrete and countable sets $V$. In this setting we analyze in detail the distributions of the corresponding Dirac…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

We propose a deep learning approach for discovering kernels tailored to identifying clusters over sample data. Our neural network produces sample embeddings that are motivated by--and are at least as expressive as--spectral clustering. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Chieh Wu , Zulqarnain Khan , Yale Chang , Stratis Ioannidis , Jennifer Dy

In this paper, we give a new approach to the theory of strictly positive kernels. Our method is based on the structure of Fock spaces. As its applications, various examples of strictly positive kernels are given. Moreover, we give a new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Michio Seto

Hilbertian kernel methods and their positive semidefinite kernels have been extensively used in various fields of applied mathematics and machine learning, owing to their several equivalent characterizations. We here unveil an analogy with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Stéphane Gaubert

Quantum machine learning (QML) is the spearhead of quantum computer applications. In particular, quantum neural networks (QNN) are actively studied as the method that works both in near-term quantum computers and fault-tolerant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Kouhei Nakaji , Hiroyuki Tezuka , Naoki Yamamoto

This paper is devoted to the study of vector valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We focus on reproducing kernels in vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In particular we extend reproducing kernels to relative reproducing…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Ali Ebadian , Saeed Hashemi Sababe

We derive symmetric and antisymmetric kernels by symmetrizing and antisymmetrizing conventional kernels and analyze their properties. In particular, we compute the feature space dimensions of the resulting polynomial kernels, prove that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Stefan Klus , Patrick Gelß , Feliks Nüske , Frank Noé

In machine learning or statistics, it is often desirable to reduce the dimensionality of a sample of data points in a high dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^d$. This paper introduces a dimensionality reduction method where the embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Michaël Fanuel , Antoine Aspeel , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Johan A. K. Suykens