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The aim of this work is to define a continuous functional calculus in quaternionic Hilbert spaces, starting from basic issues regarding the notion of spherical spectrum of a normal operator. As properties of the spherical spectrum suggest,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-17 Riccardo Ghiloni , Valter Moretti , Alessandro Perotti

The problem of supervised classification (or discrimination) with functional data is considered, with a special interest on the popular k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) classifier. First, relying on a recent result by Cerou and Guyader (2006), we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-06-18 Amparo Baillo , Antonio Cuevas

Roughly speaking, functional analysis is the study of vector spaces of arbitrary dimension over the field of real or complex numbers, and the continuous linear mappings between such spaces. Naturally, the notion of continuity requires a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Christoph Bock

Many real world data are sampled functions. As shown by Functional Data Analysis (FDA) methods, spectra, time series, images, gesture recognition data, etc. can be processed more efficiently if their functional nature is taken into account…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fabrice Rossi , Brieuc Conan-Guez

Functional data clustering is to identify heterogeneous morphological patterns in the continuous functions underlying the discrete measurements/observations. Application of functional data clustering has appeared in many publications across…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-04 Mimi Zhang , Andrew Parnell

Distribution shifts, where statistical properties differ between training and test datasets, present a significant challenge in real-world machine learning applications where they directly impact model generalization and robustness. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Vegard Flovik

Functional depth is used for ranking functional observations from most outlying to most typical. The ranks produced by functional depth have been proposed as the basis for functional classifiers, rank tests, and data visualization…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-02 James P. Long , Jianhua Z. Huang

The notions of distance and similarity play a key role in many machine learning approaches, and artificial intelligence (AI) in general, since they can serve as an organizing principle by which individuals classify objects, form concepts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Santiago Ontañón

The adequate use of information measured in a continuous manner along a period of time represents a methodological challenge. In the last decades, most of traditional statistical procedures have been extended for accommodating these…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-04 Pablo Martinez-Camblor

We propose a novel family of test statistics to detect the presence of changepoints in a sequence of dependent, possibly multivariate, functional-valued observations. Our approach allows to test for a very general class of changepoints,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-10 B. Cooper Boniece , Lajos Horváth , Lorenzo Trapani

A natural connection between rational functions of several real or complex variables, and subspace collections is explored. A new class of function, superfunctions, are introduced which are the counterpart to functions at the level of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Graeme W. Milton

We introduce a formulation of optimal transport problem for distributions on function spaces, where the stochastic map between functional domains can be partially represented in terms of an (infinite-dimensional) Hilbert-Schmidt operator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Jiacheng Zhu , Aritra Guha , Dat Do , Mengdi Xu , XuanLong Nguyen , Ding Zhao

In the context of functional data analysis, we propose new two sample tests for homogeneity. Based on some well-known depth measures, we construct four different statistics in order to measure distance between the two samples. A simulation…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-08 Ramón Flores , Rosa Lillo , Juan Romo

A new classification method for functional data is proposed in this paper. This work is motivated by the need to identify features that discriminate between neurological conditions on which local field potentials (LFPs) were recorded.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-08 Shuhao Jiao , Ron D. Frostig , Hernando Ombao

The work is devoted to the construction of a new type of intervals -- functional intervals. These intervals are built on the idea of expanding boundaries from numbers to functions. Functional intervals have shown themselves to be promising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Dmitry A. Skorik

Interval-valued data are one of the most common symbolic data types, which enables the preservation of the underlying variability of the data. The interval mean and covariance matrix can be estimated using the barycenter approach based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-30 Catarina P. Loureiro , M. Rosário Oliveira , Paula Brito , Lina Oliveira

Most Machine Learning (ML) methods, from clustering to classification, rely on a distance function to describe relationships between datapoints. For complex datasets it is hard to avoid making some arbitrary choices when defining a distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-04 Gina Gruenhage , Manfred Opper , Simon Barthelme

Usually, the dynamics of linear time-invariant systems described by an integral operator of convolution type, which is defined in the Hilbert space of Lebesgue square integrable functions on the whole line. Such a description leads to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-01-18 V. N. Tibabishev

The functional linear model is an important extension of the classical regression model allowing for scalar responses to be modeled as functions of stochastic processes. Yet, despite the usefulness and popularity of the functional linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-27 Ioannis Kalogridis , Stanislav Nagy

A functional data depth provides a center-outward ordering criterion which allows the definition of measures such as median, trimmed means, central regions or ranks in a functional framework. A functional data depth can be global or local.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-06 Carlo Sguera , Rosa E. Lillo