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Kernel methods offer the flexibility to learn complex relationships in modern, large data sets while enjoying strong theoretical guarantees on quality. Unfortunately, these methods typically require cubic running time in the data set size,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-01 Raj Agrawal , Trevor Campbell , Jonathan H. Huggins , Tamara Broderick

Computational pathology tasks have some unique characterises such as multi-gigapixel images, tedious and frequently uncertain annotations, and unavailability of large number of cases [13]. To address some of these issues, we present Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Nima Hatami

Kernel approximation via nonlinear random feature maps is widely used in speeding up kernel machines. There are two main challenges for the conventional kernel approximation methods. First, before performing kernel approximation, a good…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-16 Felix X. Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , Henry Rowley , Shih-Fu Chang

Despite the recent deep learning (DL) revolution, kernel machines still remain powerful methods for action recognition. DL has brought the use of large datasets and this is typically a problem for kernel approaches, which are not scaling up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Jacopo Cavazza , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Feedforward computation, such as evaluating a neural network or sampling from an autoregressive model, is ubiquitous in machine learning. The sequential nature of feedforward computation, however, requires a strict order of execution and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yang Song , Chenlin Meng , Renjie Liao , Stefano Ermon

We consider fast kernel summations in high dimensions: given a large set of points in $d$ dimensions (with $d \gg 3$) and a pair-potential function (the {\em kernel} function), we compute a weighted sum of all pairwise kernel interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-16 William B. March , George Biros

Kernel methods are fundamental in machine learning, and faster algorithms for kernel approximation provide direct speedups for many core tasks in machine learning. The polynomial kernel is especially important as other kernels can often be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Zheng Yu , Lichen Zhang

Fast approximations to matrix multiplication have the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of neural network inference. Recent work on approximate matrix multiplication proposed to replace costly multiplications with table-lookups by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Calvin McCarter , Nicholas Dronen

This paper studies the use of kernel density estimation (KDE) for linear algebraic tasks involving the kernel matrix of a collection of $n$ data points in $\mathbb R^d$. In particular, we improve upon existing algorithms for computing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Rikhav Shah , Sandeep Silwal , Haike Xu

Kernel logistic regression (KLR) is a conventional nonlinear classifier in machine learning. With the explosive growth of data size, the storage and computation of large dense kernel matrices is a major challenge in scaling KLR. Even the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Junna Zhang , Shuisheng Zhou , Cui Fu , Feng Ye

One approach to improving the running time of kernel-based machine learning methods is to build a small sketch of the input and use it in lieu of the full kernel matrix in the machine learning task of interest. Here, we describe a version…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-10 Ahmed El Alaoui , Michael W. Mahoney

We present simple, user-friendly bounds for the expected operator norm of a random kernel matrix under general conditions on the kernel function $k(\cdot,\cdot)$. Our approach uses decoupling results for U-statistics and the non-commutative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Chiraag Kaushik , Justin Romberg , Vidya Muthukumar

Random Fourier Features (RFF) is among the most popular and broadly applicable approaches for scaling up kernel methods. In essence, RFF allows the user to avoid costly computations on a large kernel matrix via a fast randomized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Junwen Yao , N. Benjamin Erichson , Miles E. Lopes

Approximation of non-linear kernels using random feature maps has become a powerful technique for scaling kernel methods to large datasets. We propose $\textit{Tensor Sketch}$, an efficient random feature map for approximating polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ninh Pham , Rasmus Pagh

It is well-known that non-linear approximation has an advantage over linear schemes in the sense that it provides comparable approximation rates to those of the linear schemes, but to a larger class of approximands. This was established for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-04-28 Thomas Hangelbroek , Amos Ron

Gaussian process regression is a widely-applied method for function approximation and uncertainty quantification. The technique has gained popularity recently in the machine learning community due to its robustness and interpretability. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-12 Marcus M. Noack , James A. Sethian

Kernel methods provide a powerful framework for non parametric learning. They are based on kernel functions and allow learning in a rich functional space while applying linear statistical learning tools, such as Ridge Regression or Support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sofiane Tanji , Andrea Della Vecchia , François Glineur , Silvia Villa

Gaussian Process Regression is a well-known machine learning technique for which several quantum algorithms have been proposed. We show here that in a wide range of scenarios these algorithms show no exponential speedup. We achieve this by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Dominic Lowe , M. S. Kim , Roberto Bondesan

Kernel methods are fundamental tools in machine learning that allow detection of non-linear dependencies between data without explicitly constructing feature vectors in high dimensional spaces. A major disadvantage of kernel methods is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Thomas D. Ahle , Michael Kapralov , Jakob B. T. Knudsen , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker , David Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

Kernel methods are a highly effective and widely used collection of modern machine learning algorithms. A fundamental limitation of virtually all such methods are computations involving the kernel matrix that naively scale quadratically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 John Paul Ryan , Sebastian Ament , Carla P. Gomes , Anil Damle