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We study classes of reproducing kernels $K$ on general domains; these are kernels which arise commonly in machine learning models; models based on certain families of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. They are the positive definite kernels…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

In recent years, machine learning researchers have focused on methods to construct flexible and interpretable prediction models. However, an interpretability evaluation, a relationship between generalization performance and an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jinwei Zhao , Qizhou Wang , Yufei Wang , Yu Liu , Zhenghao Shi , Xinhong Hei

We investigate a series of learning kernel problems with polynomial combinations of base kernels, which will help us solve regression and classification problems. We also perform some numerical experiments of polynomial kernels with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Chen Li , Luca Venturi , Ruitu Xu

This is a tutorial and survey paper on kernels, kernel methods, and related fields. We start with reviewing the history of kernels in functional analysis and machine learning. Then, Mercer kernel, Hilbert and Banach spaces, Reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Anomaly detection based on one-class classification algorithms is broadly used in many applied domains like image processing (e.g. detection of whether a patient is "cancerous" or "healthy" from mammography image), network intrusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-14 Evgeny Burnaev , Pavel Erofeev , Dmitry Smolyakov

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Fábio Mendonça , Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa , Fernando Morgado-Dias , Antonio G. Ravelo-García

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

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

Kernels are often developed and used as implicit mapping functions that show impressive predictive power due to their high-dimensional feature space representations. In this study, we gradually construct a series of simple feature maps that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Gurhan Ceylan , S. Ilker Birbil

Analysis of large-scale sequential data has been one of the most crucial tasks in areas such as bioinformatics, text, and audio mining. Existing string kernels, however, either (i) rely on local features of short substructures in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lingfei Wu , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Siyu Huo , Liang Zhao , Kun Xu , Liang Ma , Shouling Ji , Charu Aggarwal

Understanding the spectral properties of kernels offers a principled perspective on generalization and representation quality. While deep models achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in molecular property prediction, kernel methods remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Asma Jamali , Tin Sum Cheng , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

Random feature approximation is arguably one of the most popular techniques to speed up kernel methods in large scale algorithms and provides a theoretical approach to the analysis of deep neural networks. We analyze generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

In parameterized algorithmics, the process of kernelization is defined as a polynomial time algorithm that transforms the instance of a given problem to an equivalent instance of a size that is limited by a function of the parameter. As,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Jouke Witteveen , Ralph Bottesch , Leen Torenvliet

Models like support vector machines or Gaussian process regression often require positive semi-definite kernels. These kernels may be based on distance functions. While definiteness is proven for common distances and kernels, a proof for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Günter Rudolph

Nowhere dense classes of graphs are very general classes of uniformly sparse graphs with several seemingly unrelated characterisations. From an algorithmic perspective, a characterisation of these classes in terms of uniform quasi-wideness,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Stephan Kreutzer , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Siebertz

Convolutional Neural Networks, as most artificial neural networks, are commonly viewed as methods different in essence from kernel-based methods. We provide a systematic translation of Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) into their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-20 Corinne Jones , Vincent Roulet , Zaid Harchaoui

Kernel mean embeddings have recently attracted the attention of the machine learning community. They map measures $\mu$ from some set $M$ to functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) with kernel $k$. The RKHS distance of two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-18 Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel , Bernhard Schölkopf

Kernel methods represent one of the most powerful tools in machine learning to tackle problems expressed in terms of function values and derivatives due to their capability to represent and model complex relations. While these methods show…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Zoltan Szabo

The polynomial kernels are widely used in machine learning and they are one of the default choices to develop kernel-based classification and regression models. However, they are rarely used and considered in numerical analysis due to their…

Multiple kernel learning algorithms are proposed to combine kernels in order to obtain a better similarity measure or to integrate feature representations coming from different data sources. Most of the previous research on such methods is…

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