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We develop a scalable algorithm for mean field control problems with kernel interactions by combining particle system simulations with random Fourier feature approximations. The method replaces the quadratic-cost kernel evaluations by…

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Approximating kernel functions with random features (RFs)has been a successful application of random projections for nonparametric estimation. However, performing random projections presents computational challenges for large-scale…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ruben Ohana , Jonas Wacker , Jonathan Dong , Sébastien Marmin , Florent Krzakala , Maurizio Filippone , Laurent Daudet

Kernel methods approximate nonlinear maps in a data-driven manner by projecting the target map onto a finite-dimensional Hilbert space called the solution space. Traditionally, this space is a subspace of a fixed ambient reproducing kernel…

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We propose a new technique for constructing low-rank approximations of matrices that arise in kernel methods for machine learning. Our approach pairs a novel automatically constructed analytic expansion of the underlying kernel function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 John Paul Ryan , Anil Damle

Dealing with land cover classification of the new image sources has also turned to be a complex problem requiring large amount of memory and processing time. In order to cope with these problems, statistical learning has greatly helped in…

We prove new explicit upper bounds on the leverage scores of Fourier sparse functions under both the Gaussian and Laplace measures. In particular, we study $s$-sparse functions of the form $f(x) = \sum_{j=1}^s a_j e^{i \lambda_j x}$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Tamás Erdélyi , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

The problem of efficient approximation of a linear operator induced by the Gaussian or softmax kernel is often addressed using random features (RFs) which yield an unbiased approximation of the operator's result. Such operators emerge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Valerii Likhosherstov , Krzysztof Choromanski , Avinava Dubey , Frederick Liu , Tamas Sarlos , Adrian Weller

Value approximation using deep neural networks is at the heart of off-policy deep reinforcement learning, and is often the primary module that provides learning signals to the rest of the algorithm. While multi-layer perceptron networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ge Yang , Anurag Ajay , Pulkit Agrawal

Dot product kernels, such as polynomial and exponential (softmax) kernels, are among the most widely used kernels in machine learning, as they enable modeling the interactions between input features, which is crucial in applications like…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-14 Jonas Wacker , Motonobu Kanagawa , Maurizio Filippone

Kernel-based methods enjoy powerful generalization capabilities in handling a variety of learning tasks. When such methods are provided with sufficient training data, broadly-applicable classes of nonlinear functions can be approximated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Slow kinetic processes of molecular systems can be analyzed by computing dominant eigenpairs of the Koopman operator or its generator. In this context, the Variational Approach to Markov Processes (VAMP) provides a rigorous way of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Feliks Nüske , Stefan Klus

This paper presents a framework for computing random operator-valued feature maps for operator-valued positive definite kernels. This is a generalization of the random Fourier features for scalar-valued kernels to the operator-valued case.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ha Quang Minh

This work proposed kernel selection approaches for probabilistic classifiers based on features produced by the convolutional encoder of a variational autoencoder. Particularly, the developed methodologies allow the selection of the most…

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In this article, a novel approach to learning a complex function which can be written as the system of linear equations is introduced. This learning is grounded upon the observation that solving the system of linear equations by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Kar-Ann Toh

A well-recognized limitation of kernel learning is the requirement to handle a kernel matrix, whose size is quadratic in the number of training examples. Many methods have been proposed to reduce this computational cost, mostly by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yishay Mansour , Ohad Shamir

The random feature (RF) approach is a well-established and efficient tool for scalable kernel methods, but existing literature has primarily focused on kernel ridge regression with random features (KRR-RF), which has limitations in handling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-18 Caixing Wang , Xingdong Feng

We present a new paradigm for creating random features to approximate bi-variate functions (in particular, kernels) defined on general manifolds. This new mechanism of Manifold Random Features (MRFs) leverages discretization of the manifold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ananya Parashar , Derek Long , Dwaipayan Saha , Krzysztof Choromanski

Similarity plays a fundamental role in many areas, including data mining, machine learning, statistics and various applied domains. Inspired by the success of ensemble methods and the flexibility of trees, we propose to learn a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Donghui Yan , Songxiang Gu , Ying Xu , Zhiwei Qin

Kernel method has been developed as one of the standard approaches for nonlinear learning, which however, does not scale to large data set due to its quadratic complexity in the number of samples. A number of kernel approximation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Lingfei Wu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jie Chen , Rui Yan

For the past 30 years or so, machine learning has stimulated a great deal of research in the study of approximation capabilities (expressive power) of a multitude of processes, such as approximation by shallow or deep neural networks,…

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