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An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

While balancing covariates between groups is central for observational causal inference, selecting which features to balance remains a challenging problem. Kernel balancing is a promising approach that first estimates a kernel that captures…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-15 Andy A. Shen , Eli Ben-Michael , Avi Feller , Luke Keele , Jared Murray

The use of kernels for nonlinear prediction is widespread in machine learning. They have been popularized in support vector machines and used in kernel ridge regression, amongst others. Kernel methods share three aspects. First, instead of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-25 Patrick J. F. Groenen , Michael Greenacre

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a highly effective method for bridging the representation discrepancy between large-scale models and lightweight models. Prevalent approaches involve leveraging appropriate metrics to minimize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Zikai Zhou , Yunhang Shen , Shitong Shao , Linrui Gong , Shaohui Lin

Coreset of a given dataset and loss function is usually a small weighed set that approximates this loss for every query from a given set of queries. Coresets have shown to be very useful in many applications. However, coresets construction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Alaa Maalouf , Gilad Eini , Ben Mussay , Dan Feldman , Margarita Osadchy

The generalization performance of kernel methods is largely determined by the kernel, but common kernels are stationary thus input-independent and output-independent, that limits their applications on complicated tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Vertex centrality measures are a multi-purpose analysis tool, commonly used in many application environments to retrieve information and unveil knowledge from the graphs and network structural properties. However, the algorithms of such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Felipe Grando , Luis C. Lamb

We present novel graph kernels for graphs with node and edge labels that have ordered neighborhoods, i.e. when neighbor nodes follow an order. Graphs with ordered neighborhoods are a natural data representation for evolving graphs where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Moez Draief , Konstantin Kutzkov , Kevin Scaman , Milan Vojnovic

Approximations based on random Fourier features have recently emerged as an efficient and formally consistent methodology to design large-scale kernel machines. By expressing the kernel as a Fourier expansion, features are generated based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-08 Eduard Gabriel Băzăvan , Fuxin Li , Cristian Sminchisescu

Asymmetric kernels naturally exist in real life, e.g., for conditional probability and directed graphs. However, most of the existing kernel-based learning methods require kernels to be symmetric, which prevents the use of asymmetric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Mingzhen He , Fan He , Lei Shi , Xiaolin Huang , Johan A. K. Suykens

We present a machine learning approach for model-independent new physics searches. The corresponding algorithm is powered by recent large-scale implementations of kernel methods, nonparametric learning algorithms that can approximate any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-17 Marco Letizia , Gianvito Losapio , Marco Rando , Gaia Grosso , Andrea Wulzer , Maurizio Pierini , Marco Zanetti , Lorenzo Rosasco

Large scale online kernel learning aims to build an efficient and scalable kernel-based predictive model incrementally from a sequence of potentially infinite data points. A current key approach focuses on ways to produce an approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Takashi Washio

A particularly interesting instance of supervised learning with kernels is when each training example is associated with two objects, as in pairwise classification (Brunner et al., 2012), and in supervised learning of preference relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Giorgio Gnecco

Kernel matrices are a key quantity in kernel-based approximation, and important properties such as stability and algorithmic convergence can be analyzed with their help. In this work we refine a multivariate Ingham-type theorem, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Tizan Wenzel , Armin Iske

In complex visual recognition tasks it is typical to adopt multiple descriptors, that describe different aspects of the images, for obtaining an improved recognition performance. Descriptors that have diverse forms can be fused into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Andreas Spanias

This papers introduces an algorithm for the solution of multiple kernel learning (MKL) problems with elastic-net constraints on the kernel weights. The algorithm compares very favourably in terms of time and space complexity to existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-08 Luca Citi

This paper studies kernel PCA in a decentralized setting, where data are distributively observed with full features in local nodes and a fusion center is prohibited. Compared with linear PCA, the use of kernel brings challenges to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Fan He , Ruikai Yang , Lei Shi , Xiaolin Huang

In this abstract paper, we introduce a new kernel learning method by a nonparametric density estimator. The estimator consists of a group of k-centroids clusterings. Each clustering randomly selects data points with randomly selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Xiao-Lei Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel supervised learning method that is called Deep Embedding Kernel (DEK). DEK combines the advantages of deep learning and kernel methods in a unified framework. More specifically, DEK is a learnable kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-17 Linh Le , Ying Xie

Centered kernel alignment (CKA) is a popular metric for comparing representations, determining equivalence of networks, and neuroscience research. However, CKA does not account for the underlying manifold and relies on numerous heuristics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mohammad Tariqul Islam , Du Liu , Deblina Sarkar