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In this work, we broadly connect kernel-based filtering (e.g. approaches such as the bilateral filters and nonlocal means, but also many more) with general variational formulations of Bayesian regularized least squares, and the related…

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We present in this work a new family of kernels to compare positive measures on arbitrary spaces $\Xcal$ endowed with a positive kernel $\kappa$, which translates naturally into kernels between histograms or clouds of points. We first cover…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-09-08 Marco Cuturi

By making a seminal use of the maximum modulus principle of holomorphic functions we prove existence of $n$-best kernel approximation for a wide class of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of holomorphic functions in the unit disc, and for…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Tao Qian

This work is concerned with the kernel-based approximation of a complex-valued function from data, where the frequency response function of a partial differential equation in the frequency domain is of particular interest. In this setting,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Julien Bect , Niklas Georg , Ulrich Römer , Sebastian Schöps

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

In this paper, a new two-parameter family of regularized kernels is introduced, suitable for applying high-order time stepping to N-body systems. These high-order kernels are derived by truncating a Taylor expansion of the non-regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Benjamin Ong , Andrew Christlieb , Bryan Quaife

Kernel matrices are a key quantity in kernel-based approximation, and important properties such as stability and algorithmic convergence can be analyzed with their help. In this work we refine a multivariate Ingham-type theorem, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Tizan Wenzel , Armin Iske

The success of kernel methods has initiated the design of novel positive semidefinite functions, in particular for structured data. A leading design paradigm for this is the convolution kernel, which decomposes structured objects into their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Nils M. Kriege , Pierre-Louis Giscard , Richard C. Wilson

Low-rank approximations are popular methods to reduce the high computational cost of algorithms involving large-scale kernel matrices. The success of low-rank methods hinges on the matrix rank of the kernel matrix, and in practice, these…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ruoxi Wang , Yingzhou Li , Eric Darve

We develop a stochastic approximation framework for learning nonlinear operators between infinite-dimensional spaces utilizing general Mercer operator-valued kernels. Our framework encompasses two key classes: (i) compact kernels, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Jia-Qi Yang , Lei Shi

In this paper we investigate the approximation properties of kernel interpolants on manifolds. The kernels we consider will be obtained by the restriction of positive definite kernels on $\R^d$, such as radial basis functions (RBFs), to a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-19 Edward Fuselier , Grady Wright

We establish the full range of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities for radial functions in the Sobolev and the fractional Sobolev spaces of order $0 < s \le 1$. In particular, we show that the range of the parameters for radial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Arka Mallick , Hoai-minh Nguyen

A nonparametric family of conditional distributions is introduced, which generalizes conditional exponential families using functional parameters in a suitable RKHS. An algorithm is provided for learning the generalized natural parameter,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-10 Michael Arbel , Arthur Gretton

We examine an application of the kernel-based interpolation to numerical solutions for Zakai equations in nonlinear filtering, and aim to prove its rigorous convergence. To this end, we find the class of kernels and the structure of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Yumiharu Nakano

Kernel expansions are a topic of considerable interest in machine learning, also because of their relation to the so-called feature maps introduced in machine learning. Properties of the associated basis functions and weights (corresponding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Mauro Bisiacco , Gianluigi Pillonetto

Kernel methods are widely used in machine learning, especially for classification problems. However, the theoretical analysis of kernel classification is still limited. This paper investigates the statistical performances of kernel…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Jianfa Lai , Zhifan Li , Dongming Huang , Qian Lin

We consider piecewise linear interpolation from the perspective of kernel interpolation and quadrature. If the Sobolev space $W_2^1(0, 1)$ is equipped with a suitable inner product, its reproducing kernel is piecewise linear and gives rise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Toni Karvonen , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

Several kernel-based methods for the numerical solution of fractional differential equations have been developed in the recent past; however, these techniques exclusively relied on the use of radial basis function approximations. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Nick Fisher

We consider a problem of learning kernels for use in SVM classification in the multi-task and lifelong scenarios and provide generalization bounds on the error of a large margin classifier. Our results show that, under mild conditions on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-19 Anastasia Pentina , Shai Ben-David

Nikol'skii known theorem for the kernels satisfying a condition $A^*_n$, is proved and for kernels from wider class. Explicit formulas for calculating the value of an approximation of classes $\W^{r, \beta}_{p, n} $ by convolution operators…

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