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This paper discusses the local linear smoothing to estimate the unknown first and second infinitesimal moments in second-order jump-diffusion model based on Gamma asymmetric kernels. Under the mild conditions, we obtain the weak consistency…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Yuping Song , Hanchao Wang

Multiple kernel clustering (MKC) is committed to achieving optimal information fusion from a set of base kernels. Constructing precise and local kernel matrices is proved to be of vital significance in applications since the unreliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Liang Li , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Li Shen , Kenli Li , Keqin Li

Graph convolutional networks are a new promising learning approach to deal with data on irregular domains. They are predestined to overcome certain limitations of conventional grid-based architectures and will enable efficient handling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Lasse Hansen , Jasper Diesel , Mattias P. Heinrich

We obtain upper bounds for the estimation error of Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) for all non-negative regularization parameters, offering a geometric perspective on various phenomena in KRR. As applications: 1. We address the multiple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Georgios Gavrilopoulos , Guillaume Lecué , Zong Shang

This paper introduces an efficient multi-linear nonparametric (kernel-based) approximation framework for data regression and imputation, and its application to dynamic magnetic-resonance imaging (dMRI). Data features are assumed to reside…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Duc Thien Nguyen , Konstantinos Slavakis

Kernel interpolation is a fundamental technique for approximating functions from scattered data, with a well-understood convergence theory when interpolating elements of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Beyond this classical setting,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Toni Karvonen , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

We develop a framework for function classes generated by parametric ridge kernels: one-dimensional kernels composed with affine projections and averaged over a parameter measure. The induced kernels are positive definite, and the resulting…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 James Tian

In a digraph, a kernel is a subset of vertices that is both independent and absorbing. Kernels have important applications in combinatorics and outside. Kernels do not always exist and finding sufficient conditions ensuring their existence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Hélène Langlois , Frédéric Meunier

We study Talenti's type symmetrization properties for solutions of linear stationary and evolution problems. Our main result establishes the comparison in norm between the solution of a problem and its symmetric version when nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Gonzalo Galiano

We construct a class of non-reversible Metropolis kernels as a multivariate extension of the guided-walk kernel proposed by Gustafson 1998. The main idea of our method is to introduce a projection that maps a state space to a totally…

Computation · Statistics 2021-03-16 Kengo Kamatani , Xiaolin Song

Gaussian Process (GP) regression is a powerful nonparametric Bayesian framework, but its performance depends critically on the choice of covariance kernel. Selecting an appropriate kernel is therefore central to model quality, yet remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Md Shafiqul Islam , Shakti Prasad Padhy , Douglas Allaire , Raymundo Arróyave

When analyzing modern machine learning algorithms, we may need to handle kernel density estimation (KDE) with intricate kernels that are not designed by the user and might even be irregular and asymmetric. To handle this emerging challenge,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Hau-Tieng Wu , Nan Wu

Graph kernels are kernel methods measuring graph similarity and serve as a standard tool for graph classification. However, the use of kernel methods for node classification, which is a related problem to graph representation learning, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yu Tian , Long Zhao , Xi Peng , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Several algorithmic meta-theorems on kernelization have appeared in the last years, starting with the result of Bodlaender et al. [FOCS 2009] on graphs of bounded genus, then generalized by Fomin et al. [SODA 2010] to graphs excluding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Valentin Garnero , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We use heat kernels or eigenfunctions of the Laplacian to construct local coordinates on large classes of Euclidean domains and Riemannian manifolds (not necessarily smooth, e.g. with $\mathcal{C}^\alpha$ metric). These coordinates are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-09 Peter W. Jones , Mauro Maggioni , Raanan Schul

Recent decades have provided a host of examples and applications motivating the study of nonlocal differential operators. We discuss a class of such operators acting on bounded domains, focusing on those with integrable kernels having…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Mikil Foss , Michael Pieper

We propose a new method for input variable selection in nonlinear regression. The method is embedded into a kernel regression machine that can model general nonlinear functions, not being a priori limited to additive models. This is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Magda Gregorová , Jason Ramapuram , Alexandros Kalousis , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

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

In this paper, we define and study a nested family of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of vector fields that is indexed by a range of scales, from which we construct a reproducing kernel Hilbert space of scale-dependent vector fields. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Yechen Liu , Laurent Younes

Graph generative modelling has become an essential task due to the wide range of applications in chemistry, biology, social networks, and knowledge representation. In this work, we propose a novel framework for generating graphs by adapting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-04 Anthony Stephenson , Ian Gallagher , Christopher Nemeth