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A framework for coherent pattern extraction and prediction of observables of measure-preserving, ergodic dynamical systems with both atomic and continuous spectral components is developed. It is based on an approximation of the generator of…

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With the development of robotics, ground robots are no longer limited to planar motion. Passive height variation due to complex terrain and active height control provided by special structures on robots require a more general navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Jingping Wang , Long Xu , Haoran Fu , Zehui Meng , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao , Ximin Lyu , Fei Gao

Motivated by the entropic optimal transport problem in unbounded settings, we study versions of Hilbert's projective metric for spaces of integrable functions of bounded growth. These versions of Hilbert's metric originate from cones which…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Stephan Eckstein

We propose a novel online learning paradigm for nonlinear-function estimation tasks based on the iterative projections in the L2 space with probability measure reflecting the stochastic property of input signals. The proposed learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Motoya Ohnishi , Masahiro Yukawa

Statistical machine learning plays an important role in modern statistics and computer science. One main goal of statistical machine learning is to provide universally consistent algorithms, i.e., the estimator converges in probability or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-18 Andreas Christmann , Florian Dumpert , Dao-Hong Xiang

Development of metrics for structural data-generating mechanisms is fundamental in machine learning and the related fields. In this paper, we give a general framework to construct metrics on random nonlinear dynamical systems, defined with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-29 Isao Ishikawa , Akinori Tanaka , Masahiro Ikeda , Yoshinobu Kawahara

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

Data-driven approximations of the infinite-dimensional Koopman operator rely on finite-dimensional projections, where the predictive accuracy of the resulting models hinges heavily on the invariance of the chosen subspace. Subspace pruning…

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This paper presents a technique for trajectory planning based on continuously parameterized high-level actions (motion primitives) of variable duration. This technique leverages deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL) to formulate a policy…

In this paper, we study the online learning algorithm without explicit regularization terms. This algorithm is essentially a stochastic gradient descent scheme in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). The polynomially decaying step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Zheng-Chu Guo , Lei Shi

To control how a robot moves, motion planning algorithms must compute paths in high-dimensional state spaces while accounting for physical constraints related to motors and joints, generating smooth and stable motions, avoiding obstacles,…

This article presents a general framework for the transport of probability measures towards minimum divergence generative modeling and sampling using ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHSs),…

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We implement an all-optical setup demonstrating kernel-based quantum machine learning for two-dimensional classification problems. In this hybrid approach, kernel evaluations are outsourced to projective measurements on suitably designed…

Particle-based variational inference (VI) minimizes the KL divergence between model samples and the target posterior with gradient flow estimates. With the popularity of Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), the focus of particle-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-19 Hanze Dong , Xi Wang , Yong Lin , Tong Zhang

In this series of papers, we present a motion planning framework for planning comfortable and customizable motion of nonholonomic mobile robots such as intelligent wheelchairs and autonomous cars. In Part I, we presented the mathematical…

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We propose and study kernel conjugate gradient methods (KCGM) with random projections for least-squares regression over a separable Hilbert space. Considering two types of random projections generated by randomized sketches and Nystr\"{o}m…

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A new Hardy space Hardy space approach of Dirichlet type problem based on Tikhonov regularization and Reproducing Hilbert kernel space is discussed in this paper, which turns out to be a typical extremal problem located on the upper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Zhulin Liu , C. L. Philip Chen

Learning with Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) has been widely used in many scientific disciplines. Because a RKHS can be very flexible, it is common to impose a regularization term in the optimization to prevent overfitting.…

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We present a complete framework for fast motion planning of non-holonomic autonomous mobile robots in highly complex but structured environments. Conventional grid-based planners struggle with scalability, while many kinematically-feasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia , Sebastiaan Wyns , Sonia De Santis , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

We develop a unified geometric framework for nonparametric estimation based on the notion of Twin Kernel Spaces, defined as orbits of a reproducing kernel under a group action. This structure induces a family of transported RKHS geometries…

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