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There are existing standard solvers for tackling discrete optimization problems. However, in practice, it is uncommon to apply them directly to the large input space typical of this class of problems. Rather, the input is preprocessed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Bolarinwa Olayemi Saheed

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown empirical success in various real world settings with complex models and large state-action spaces. The existing analytical results, however, typically focus on settings with a small number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Sattar Vakili , Julia Olkhovskaya

Adversarial training can be used to learn models that are robust against perturbations. For linear models, it can be formulated as a convex optimization problem. Compared to methods proposed in the context of deep learning, leveraging the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-20 Antônio H. RIbeiro , Thomas B. Schön , Dave Zahariah , Francis Bach

The inference performance of the pseudolikelihood method is discussed in the framework of the inverse Ising problem when the $\ell_2$-regularized (ridge) linear regression is adopted. This setup is introduced for theoretically investigating…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-19 Xiangming Meng , Tomoyuki Obuchi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

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

Convolution neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks of computing vision. However, CNN tends to bias to low frequency components. They prioritize capturing low frequency patterns which lead them fail when suffering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Weiyu Guo , Yidong Ouyang

We investigate the learning rate of multiple kernel learning (MKL) with $\ell_1$ and elastic-net regularizations. The elastic-net regularization is a composition of an $\ell_1$-regularizer for inducing the sparsity and an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-27 Taiji Suzuki , Masashi Sugiyama

Convolutional neural networks perform a local and translationally-invariant treatment of the data: quantifying which of these two aspects is central to their success remains a challenge. We study this problem within a teacher-student…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-07 Alessandro Favero , Francesco Cagnetta , Matthieu Wyart

Sparse regression and feature extraction are the cornerstones of knowledge discovery from massive data. Their goal is to discover interpretable and predictive models that provide simple relationships among scientific variables. While the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jeremy A. McCulloch , Skyler R. St. Pierre , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

In the absence of explicit regularization, Kernel "Ridgeless" Regression with nonlinear kernels has the potential to fit the training data perfectly. It has been observed empirically, however, that such interpolated solutions can still…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Tengyuan Liang , Alexander Rakhlin

Deep kernel learning provides an elegant and principled framework for combining the structural properties of deep learning algorithms with the flexibility of kernel methods. By means of a deep neural network, we learn a parametrized kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Prudencio Tossou , Basile Dura , Francois Laviolette , Mario Marchand , Alexandre Lacoste

Kernel methods have great promise for learning rich statistical representations of large modern datasets. However, compared to neural networks, kernel methods have been perceived as lacking in scalability and flexibility. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Zichao Yang , Alexander J. Smola , Le Song , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Regularization, whether explicit in terms of a penalty in the loss or implicit in the choice of algorithm, is a cornerstone of modern machine learning. Indeed, controlling the complexity of the model class is particularly important when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-22 Matteo Vilucchio , Nikolaos Tsilivis , Bruno Loureiro , Julia Kempe

Variational regularization is commonly used to solve linear inverse problems, and involves augmenting a data fidelity by a regularizer. The regularizer is used to promote a priori information and is weighted by a regularization parameter.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Silvia Gazzola , Sebastian J. Scott

This paper investigates preconditioned conjugate gradient techniques for solving kernel ridge regression (KRR) problems with a medium to large number of data points ($10^4 \leq N \leq 10^7$), and it describes two methods with the strongest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Mateo Díaz , Ethan N. Epperly , Zachary Frangella , Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

We introduce a novel approach for learning memory kernels in Generalized Langevin Equations. This approach initially utilizes a regularized Prony method to estimate correlation functions from trajectory data, followed by regression over a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-22 Quanjun Lang , Jianfeng Lu

In this work, we demonstrate the advantage of the pGMM (``powered generalized min-max'') kernel in the context of (ridge) regression. In recent prior studies, the pGMM kernel has been extensively evaluated for classification tasks, for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 Ping Li , Weijie Zhao

We explore the low-rank structure of the weight matrices in neural networks at the stationary points (limiting solutions of optimization algorithms) with $L2$ regularization (also known as weight decay). We show several properties of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ilja Kuzborskij , Yasin Abbasi Yadkori

We consider a problem of learning kernels for use in SVM classification in the multi-task and lifelong scenarios and provide generalization bounds on the error of a large margin classifier. Our results show that, under mild conditions on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-19 Anastasia Pentina , Shai Ben-David

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