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Low-rank approximations of large kernel matrices are ubiquitous in machine learning, particularly for scaling Gaussian Processes to massive datasets. The Pivoted Cholesky decomposition is a standard tool for this task, offering a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Gil Shabat

We propose a new technique for constructing low-rank approximations of matrices that arise in kernel methods for machine learning. Our approach pairs a novel automatically constructed analytic expansion of the underlying kernel function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 John Paul Ryan , Anil Damle

Advances in high-throughput technologies have originated an ever-increasing availability of omics datasets. The integration of multiple heterogeneous data sources is currently an issue for biology and bioinformatics. Multiple kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-04 Mitja Briscik , Gabriele Tazza , Marie-Agnes Dillies , László Vidács , Sébastien Dejean

We consider the problem of simultaneously learning to linearly combine a very large number of kernels and learn a good predictor based on the learnt kernel. When the number of kernels $d$ to be combined is very large, multiple kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Arash Afkanpour , András György , Csaba Szepesvári , Michael Bowling

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

The accuracy and complexity of machine learning algorithms based on kernel optimization are limited by the set of kernels over which they are able to optimize. An ideal set of kernels should: admit a linear parameterization (for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Brendon K. Colbert , Matthew M. Peet

We propose a novel class of kernels to alleviate the high computational cost of large-scale nonparametric learning with kernel methods. The proposed kernel is defined based on a hierarchical partitioning of the underlying data domain, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Jie Chen , Haim Avron , Vikas Sindhwani

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is widely used for nonparametric regression over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. It offers powerful modeling capabilities at the cost of significant computational costs, which typically require $O(n^3)$…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-18 Xiaowu Dai , Huiying Zhong

This paper, broadly speaking, covers the use of randomness in two main areas: low-rank approximation and kernel methods. Low-rank approximation is very important in numerical linear algebra. Many applications depend on matrix decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Rishi Advani , Madison Crim , Sean O'Hagan

We develop an accelerated algorithm for computing an approximate eigenvalue decomposition of bistochastic normalized kernel matrices. Our approach constructs a low rank approximation of the original kernel matrix by the pivoted partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Chris Vales , Dimitrios Giannakis

We propose a simple yet effective multiple kernel clustering algorithm, termed simple multiple kernel k-means (SimpleMKKM). It extends the widely used supervised kernel alignment criterion to multi-kernel clustering. Our criterion is given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Jiyuan Liu , Timothy Hospedales , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

Kernel-based methods enjoy powerful generalization capabilities in handling a variety of learning tasks. When such methods are provided with sufficient training data, broadly-applicable classes of nonlinear functions can be approximated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Multiple kernel learning (MKL) method is generally believed to perform better than single kernel method. However, some empirical studies show that this is not always true: the combination of multiple kernels may even yield an even worse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-21 Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Jinfeng Yi , Zenglin Xu

Low-rank approximation is a common tool used to accelerate kernel methods: the $n \times n$ kernel matrix $K$ is approximated via a rank-$k$ matrix $\tilde K$ which can be stored in much less space and processed more quickly. In this work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Cameron Musco , David P. Woodruff

Enhancing classical machine learning (ML) algorithms through quantum kernels is a rapidly growing research topic in quantum machine learning (QML). A key challenge in using kernels -- both classical and quantum -- is that ML workflows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Annie Naveh , Imogen Fitzgerald , Anna Phan , Andrew Lockwood , Travis L. Scholten

Learning a kernel matrix from relative comparison human feedback is an important problem with applications in collaborative filtering, object retrieval, and search. For learning a kernel over a large number of objects, existing methods face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Eric Heim , Matthew Berger , Lee M. Seversky , Milos Hauskrecht

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Mehmet Gonen

We are interested in a framework of online learning with kernels for low-dimensional but large-scale and potentially adversarial datasets. We study the computational and theoretical performance of online variations of kernel Ridge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-30 Rémi Jézéquel , Pierre Gaillard , Alessandro Rudi

Learning linear combinations of multiple kernels is an appealing strategy when the right choice of features is unknown. Previous approaches to multiple kernel learning (MKL) promote sparse kernel combinations to support interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Marius Kloft , Ulf Brefeld , Soeren Sonnenburg , Alexander Zien

We prove rates of convergence in the statistical sense for kernel-based least squares regression using a conjugate gradient algorithm, where regularization against overfitting is obtained by early stopping. This method is directly related…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-30 Gilles Blanchard , Nicole Kraemer