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We extend our work for compression of currents and varifolds to a compression algorithm for the embedded normal cycles representation of shape, restricted to the constant normal kernel case, using the Nystrom approximation in Reproducing…

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Recommender systems (RS) serve as a fundamental tool for navigating the vast expanse of online information, with deep learning advancements playing an increasingly important role in improving ranking accuracy. Among these, graph neural…

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Transformers are expensive to train due to the quadratic time and space complexity in the self-attention mechanism. On the other hand, although kernel machines suffer from the same computation bottleneck in pairwise dot products, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yifan Chen , Qi Zeng , Heng Ji , Yun Yang

We investigate the connections between sparse approximation methods for making kernel methods and Gaussian processes (GPs) scalable to large-scale data, focusing on the Nystr\"om method and the Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes (SVGP).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Veit Wild , Motonobu Kanagawa , Dino Sejdinovic

Random Fourier Features (RFF) is among the most popular and broadly applicable approaches for scaling up kernel methods. In essence, RFF allows the user to avoid costly computations on a large kernel matrix via a fast randomized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Junwen Yao , N. Benjamin Erichson , Miles E. Lopes

Kernel-based models such as kernel ridge regression and Gaussian processes are ubiquitous in machine learning applications for regression and optimization. It is well known that a major downside for kernel-based models is the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sattar Vakili , Jonathan Scarlett , Da-shan Shiu , Alberto Bernacchia

The bilateral and nonlocal means filters are instances of kernel-based filters that are popularly used in image processing. It was recently shown that fast and accurate bilateral filtering of grayscale images can be performed using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), the observed matrix can be approximated by the product of the basis and coefficient matrices. Moreover, if the coefficient vectors are explained by the covariates for each individual, the…

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Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) embedding of probability distributions has proved to be an effective approach, via MMD (maximum mean discrepancy), for nonparametric hypothesis testing problems involving distributions defined over…

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We introduce a fast algorithm for Gaussian process regression in low dimensions, applicable to a widely-used family of non-stationary kernels. The non-stationarity of these kernels is induced by arbitrary spatially-varying vertical and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-28 P. Michael Kielstra , Michael Lindsey

Kernel power $k$-means (KPKM) leverages a family of means to mitigate local minima issues in kernel $k$-means. However, KPKM faces two key limitations: (1) the computational burden of the full kernel matrix restricts its use on extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yixi Chen , Weixuan Liang , Tianrui Liu , Jun-Jie Huang , Ao Li , Xueling Zhu , Xinwang Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely employed for feature representation learning in molecular graphs. Therefore, it is crucial to enhance the expressiveness of feature representation to ensure the effectiveness of GNNs. However, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Chengyu Yao , Hong Huang , Hang Gao , Fengge Wu , Haiming Chen , Junsuo Zhao

In this work, we demonstrate the advantage of the pGMM (``powered generalized min-max'') kernel in the context of (ridge) regression. In recent prior studies, the pGMM kernel has been extensively evaluated for classification tasks, for…

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In this work we propose R-GPM, a parallel computing framework for graph pattern mining (GPM) through a user-defined subgraph relation. More specifically, we enable the computation of statistics of patterns through their subgraph classes,…

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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

The Nystr\"{o}m method is an effective tool to generate low-rank approximations of large matrices, and it is particularly useful for kernel-based learning. To improve the standard Nystr\"{o}m approximation, ensemble Nystr\"{o}m algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Keaton Hamm , Zhaoying Lu , Wenbo Ouyang , Hao Helen Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a broad class of connectionist models for graph processing. Recent studies have shown that GNNs can approximate any function on graphs, modulo the equivalence relation on graphs defined by the…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chen Jiang , Qingna Li

The generator coordinate method (GCM) is an important tool of choice for modeling large-amplitude collective motion in atomic nuclei. The computational complexity of the GCM increases rapidly with the number of collective coordinates. It…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-10 X. Zhang , W. Lin , J. M. Yao , C. F. Jiao , A. M. Romero , T. R. Rodríguez , H. Hergert

A comparative study of the application of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) in biometric recognition of voice has been carried out and presented. The application of machine learning techniques to biometric…

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