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This paper establishes the first polynomial convergence rates for Gaussian kernel ridge regression (KRR) with a fixed hyperparameter in both the uniform and the $L^{2}$-norm. The uniform convergence result closes a gap in the theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-12 Paul Dommel , Rajmadan Lakshmanan

To accelerate kernel methods, we propose a near input sparsity time algorithm for sampling the high-dimensional feature space implicitly defined by a kernel transformation. Our main contribution is an importance sampling method for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-15 David P. Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

For low-dimensional data sets with a large amount of data points, standard kernel methods are usually not feasible for regression anymore. Besides simple linear models or involved heuristic deep learning models, grid-based discretizations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Bastian Bohn , Michael Griebel , Jens Oettershagen

Nonparametric regression with random design is considered. Estimates are defined by minimzing a penalized empirical $L_2$ risk over a suitably chosen class of neural networks with one hidden layer via gradient descent. Here, the gradient…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Alina Braun , Michael Kohler , Harro Walk

Kernel regression is a popular non-parametric fitting technique. It aims at learning a function which estimates the targets for test inputs as precise as possible. Generally, the function value for a test input is estimated by a weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Rongqing Huang , Shiliang Sun

In the absence of explicit regularization, Kernel "Ridgeless" Regression with nonlinear kernels has the potential to fit the training data perfectly. It has been observed empirically, however, that such interpolated solutions can still…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Tengyuan Liang , Alexander Rakhlin

We consider supervised learning problems within the positive-definite kernel framework, such as kernel ridge regression, kernel logistic regression or the support vector machine. With kernels leading to infinite-dimensional feature spaces,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Francis Bach

We study the convergence rate of the proximal-gradient homotopy algorithm applied to norm-regularized linear least squares problems, for a general class of norms. The homotopy algorithm reduces the regularization parameter in a series of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Reza Eghbali , Maryam Fazel

In this work we consider the problem of numerical integration, i.e., approximating integrals with respect to a target probability measure using only pointwise evaluations of the integrand. We focus on the setting in which the target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-17 Antoine Chatalic , Nicolas Schreuder , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco

Convex clustering is a well-regarded clustering method, resembling the similar centroid-based approach of Lloyd's $k$-means, without requiring a predefined cluster count. It starts with each data point as its centroid and iteratively merges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Shubhayan Pan , Kushal Bose , Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das

Finite mixture models provide a flexible framework for approximating and estimating multivariate probability densities. We study mixtures formed from translated and rescaled copies of a fixed density kernel and obtain explicit results for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Hien Duy Nguyen , TrungTin Nguyen , Jacob Westerhout , Xin Guo

We develop a novel framework for sparse multiscale kernel approximation of large scattered data problems based on a samplet representation. Samplets form a multiresolution analysis of localized discrete signed measures and enable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Sara Avesani , Gaia Fumagalli , Michael Multerer , Chiara Segala

Quasi-convex optimization acts a pivotal part in many fields including economics and finance; the subgradient method is an effective iterative algorithm for solving large-scale quasi-convex optimization problems. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Yaohua Hu , Jiawen Li , Carisa Kwok Wai Yu

Many regularization schemes for high-dimensional regression have been put forward. Most require the choice of a tuning parameter, using model selection criteria or cross-validation schemes. We show that a simple non-negative or…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-02-07 Nicolai Meinshausen

This paper introduces algorithms to select/design kernels in Gaussian process regression/kriging surrogate modeling techniques. We adopt the setting of kernel method solutions in ad hoc functional spaces, namely Reproducing Kernel Hilbert…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-07 Jean-Luc Akian , Luc Bonnet , Houman Owhadi , Éric Savin

Regularization schemes for regression have been widely studied in learning theory and inverse problems. In this paper, we study distribution regression (DR) which involves two stages of sampling, and aims at regressing from probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho , Ding-Xuan Zhou

We propose inferential tools for functional linear quantile regression where the conditional quantile of a scalar response is assumed to be a linear functional of a functional covariate. In contrast to conventional approaches, we employ…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Peijun Sang , Zuofeng Shang , Pang Du

Learning with Fredholm kernel has attracted increasing attention recently since it can effectively utilize the data information to improve the prediction performance. Despite rapid progress on theoretical and experimental evaluations, its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Yanfang Tao , Peipei Yuan , Biqin Song

Kernel interpolation is a fundamental technique for approximating functions from scattered data, with a well-understood convergence theory when interpolating elements of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Beyond this classical setting,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Toni Karvonen , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

This paper proposes a novel kernel approach to linear dimension reduction for supervised learning. The purpose of the dimension reduction is to find directions in the input space to explain the output as effectively as possible. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-09-05 Kenji Fukumizu , Chenlei Leng