English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning Random Kernel Approximations for Object R…

200 papers

One of the main computational bottlenecks when working with kernel based learning is dealing with the large and typically dense kernel matrix. Techniques dealing with fast approximations of the matrix vector product for these kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Theresa Wagner , Franziska Nestler , Martin Stoll

We investigate how to train kernel approximation methods that generalize well under a memory budget. Building on recent theoretical work, we define a measure of kernel approximation error which we find to be more predictive of the empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Jian Zhang , Avner May , Tri Dao , Christopher Ré

Random features have been introduced to scale up kernel methods via randomization techniques. In particular, random Fourier features and orthogonal random features were used to approximate the popular Gaussian kernel. Random Fourier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Nizar Demni , Hachem Kadri

Devoted to multi-task learning and structured output learning, operator-valued kernels provide a flexible tool to build vector-valued functions in the context of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. To scale up these methods, we extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Romain Brault , Florence d'Alché-Buc , Markus Heinonen

Approximation using Fourier features is a popular technique for scaling kernel methods to large-scale problems, with myriad applications in machine learning and statistics. This method replaces the integral representation of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Ayoub Belhadji , Qianyu Julie Zhu , Youssef Marzouk

Tensor algebras give rise to one of the most powerful measures of similarity for sequences of arbitrary length called the signature kernel accompanied with attractive theoretical guarantees from stochastic analysis. Previous algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-25 Csaba Toth , Harald Oberhauser , Zoltan Szabo

Recent works have derived neural networks with online correlation-based learning rules to perform \textit{kernel similarity matching}. These works applied existing linear similarity matching algorithms to nonlinear features generated with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Random features is one of the most popular techniques to speed up kernel methods in large-scale problems. Related works have been recognized by the NeurIPS Test-of-Time award in 2017 and the ICML Best Paper Finalist in 2019. The body of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-13 Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Yudong Chen , Johan A. K. Suykens

We propose a principled method for kernel learning, which relies on a Fourier-analytic characterization of translation-invariant or rotation-invariant kernels. Our method produces a sequence of feature maps, iteratively refining the SVM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Brian Bullins , Cyril Zhang , Yi Zhang

A fundamental drawback of kernel-based statistical models is their limited scalability to large data sets, which requires resorting to approximations. In this work, we focus on the popular Gaussian kernel and on techniques to linearize…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-13 Jonas Wacker , Maurizio Filippone

Online topology estimation of graph-connected time series is challenging, especially since the causal dependencies in many real-world networks are nonlinear. In this paper, we propose a kernel-based algorithm for graph topology estimation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Rohan Money , Joshin Krishnan , Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

Probabilistic machine learning models are distinguished by their ability to integrate prior knowledge of noise statistics, smoothness parameters, and training data uncertainty. A common approach involves modeling data with Gaussian…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-31 Cristian A. Galvis-Florez , Ahmad Farooq , Simo Särkkä

There is currently a huge effort to understand the potential and limitations of variational quantum machine learning (QML) based on the optimization of parameterized quantum circuits. Recent proposals toward dequantizing variational QML…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Ryan Sweke , Seongwook Shin , Elies Gil-Fuster

Density estimation is a fundamental task in statistics and machine learning applications. Kernel density estimation is a powerful tool for non-parametric density estimation in low dimensions; however, its performance is poor in higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Joseph A. Gallego , Fabio A. González

The approximation of nonlinear kernels via linear feature maps has recently gained interest due to their applications in reducing the training and testing time of kernel-based learning algorithms. Current random projection methods avoid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-05 A. G. Chung , M. J. Shafiee , A. Wong

Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) is a simple yet powerful technique for non-parametric regression whose computation amounts to solving a linear system. This system is usually dense and highly ill-conditioned. In addition, the dimensions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Haim Avron , Kenneth L. Clarkson , David P. Woodruff

We propose the adaptive random Fourier features Gaussian kernel LMS (ARFF-GKLMS). Like most kernel adaptive filters based on stochastic gradient descent, this algorithm uses a preset number of random Fourier features to save computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Wei Gao , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard , Wentao Shi , Qunfei Zhang

In large-scale regression problems, random Fourier features (RFFs) have significantly enhanced the computational scalability and flexibility of Gaussian processes (GPs) by defining kernels through their spectral density, from which a finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Houston Warren , Rafael Oliveira , Fabio Ramos

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

We revisit Rahimi and Recht (2007)'s kernel random Fourier features (RFF) method through the lens of the PAC-Bayesian theory. While the primary goal of RFF is to approximate a kernel, we look at the Fourier transform as a prior distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-28 Gaël Letarte , Emilie Morvant , Pascal Germain