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This paper introduces a new and effective algorithm for learning kernels in a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) setting. Although, we consider a MTL scenario here, our approach can be easily applied to standard single task learning, as well. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Niloofar Yousefi , Cong Li , Mansooreh Mollaghasemi , Georgios Anagnostopoulos , Michael Georgiopoulos

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

We investigate a recently proposed family of positive-definite kernels that mimic the computation in large neural networks. We examine the properties of these kernels using tools from differential geometry; specifically, we analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Youngmin Cho , Lawrence K. Saul

The effectiveness of dimensionality reduction with quadratic manifolds hinges on the choice of a reduced basis and the associated quadratic correction terms. Existing approaches typically rely on subspaces spanned by the leading principal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Gavin Paxton , Seunghee Cheon , Rudy Geelen , Shane A. McQuarrie

This paper generalizes recent advances on quadratic manifold (QM) dimensionality reduction by developing kernel methods-based nonlinear-augmentation dimensionality reduction. QMs, and more generally feature map-based nonlinear corrections,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alejandro N. Diaz , Jacob T. Needels , Irina K. Tezaur , Patrick J. Blonigan

This paper is concerned with the theory and applications of varifolds to the representation, approximation and diffeomorphic registration of shapes. One of its purpose is to synthesize and extend several prior works which, so far, have made…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Hsi-Wei Hsieh , Nicolas Charon

Kernel methods play a critical role in many machine learning algorithms. They are useful in manifold learning, classification, clustering and other data analysis tasks. Setting the kernel's scale parameter, also referred to as the kernel's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Ofir Lindenbaum , Moshe Salhov , Arie Yeredor , Amir Averbuch

In this paper, we develop a new classification method for manifold-valued data in the framework of probabilistic learning vector quantization. In many classification scenarios, the data can be naturally represented by symmetric positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fengzhen Tang , Haifeng Feng , Peter Tino , Bailu Si , Daxiong Ji

Filtration of quantifiable objects by smoothing kernels on Riemannian manifolds for visualisation is an ongoing research. However, using common filters created for linear domains on manifolds with non-Euclidean topologies can yield…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Louis Omenyi , McSylvester Omaba

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

We present a method for metric optimization in the Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM) framework, by treating the induced Riemannian metric on the space of diffeomorphisms as a kernel in a machine learning context. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Ayagoz Mussabayeva , Alexey Kroshnin , Anvar Kurmukov , Yulia Dodonova , Li Shen , Shan Cong , Lei Wang , Boris A. Gutman

In this paper, we tackle a critical issue in nonparametric inference for systems of interacting particles on Riemannian manifolds: the identifiability of the interaction functions. Specifically, we define the function spaces on which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Sui Tang , Malik Tuerkoen , Hanming Zhou

Kernel methods are powerful tools in machine learning. Classical kernel methods are based on positive-definite kernels, which map data spaces into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). For non-Euclidean data spaces, positive-definite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Nathael Da Costa , Cyrus Mostajeran , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Salem Said

We characterize the kernel of the mixed ray transform on simple $2$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, that is, on simple surfaces for tensors of any order.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Maarten V. de Hoop , Teemu Saksala , Jian Zhai

This paper develops a novel mathematical framework for collaborative learning by means of geometrically inspired kernel machines which includes statements on the bounds of generalisation and approximation errors, and sample complexity. For…

This paper advocates a novel framework for segmenting a dataset in a Riemannian manifold $M$ into clusters lying around low-dimensional submanifolds of $M$. Important examples of $M$, for which the proposed clustering algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-02 Xu Wang , Konstantinos Slavakis , Gilad Lerman

Kernel methods are an incredibly popular technique for extending linear models to non-linear problems via a mapping to an implicit, high-dimensional feature space. While kernel methods are computationally cheaper than an explicit feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-26 Philip Milton , Emanuele Giorgi , Samir Bhatt

Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," aims to enable models to quickly adapt to new tasks with minimal data. While traditional methods like Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) optimize parameters in Euclidean space, they often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 JuneYoung Park , YuMi Lee , Tae-Joon Kim , Jang-Hwan Choi

This work is motivated by the frequent occurrence of boundary value problems with various boundary conditions in the modeling of some problems in engineering and physical science. Here we propose a new technique to force the positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Babak Azarnavid , Mohammad Nabati , Mahdi Emamjome , Kourosh Parand

Convolution is an important tool in the construction of positive definite kernels on a manifold. This contribution provides conditions on an $L^2$-positive definite and zonal kernel on the unit sphere of $\mathbb{C}^q$ in order that the…

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