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This paper studies an intriguing phenomenon related to the good generalization performance of estimators obtained by using large learning rates within gradient descent algorithms. First observed in the deep learning literature, we show that…

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Deep kernel learning combines the non-parametric flexibility of kernel methods with the inductive biases of deep learning architectures. We propose a novel deep kernel learning model and stochastic variational inference procedure which…

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We study online learning when individual instances are corrupted by adversarially chosen random noise. We assume the noise distribution is unknown, and may change over time with no restriction other than having zero mean and bounded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

In decision-making systems, it is important to have classifiers that have calibrated uncertainties, with an optimisation objective that can be used for automated model selection and training. Gaussian processes (GPs) provide uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-05 Vincent Dutordoir , Mark van der Wilk , Artem Artemev , James Hensman

In this paper, we propose a maximum margin classifier that deals with uncertainty in data input. More specifically, we reformulate the SVM framework such that each training example can be modeled by a multi-dimensional Gaussian distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Mezaris , Ioannis Patras

The support vector machines (SVM) is a powerful classifier used for binary classification to improve the prediction accuracy. However, the non-differentiability of the SVM hinge loss function can lead to computational difficulties in high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-17 Rachid Kharoubi , Abdallah Mkhadri , Karim Oualkacha

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

A nonlinear kernel-free soft quadratic surface support vector machine model with 0-1 loss function ($L_{0/1}$-SQSSVM) is proposed for binary classification problems, which is non-convex discontinuous. We are devoted to establishing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Guoping Li , Wen Song

The Gaussian kernel plays a central role in machine learning, uncertainty quantification and scattered data approximation, but has received relatively little attention from a numerical analysis standpoint. The basic problem of finding an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Toni Karvonen , Chris J. Oates , Mark Girolami

We study the problem of agnostic learning under the Gaussian distribution. We develop a method for finding hard families of examples for a wide class of problems by using LP duality. For Boolean-valued concept classes, we show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Thanasis Pittas , Nikos Zarifis

Machine learning and quantum computing are two technologies each with the potential for altering how computation is performed to address previously untenable problems. Kernel methods for machine learning are ubiquitous for pattern…

Support vector data description (SVDD) is a machine learning technique that is used for single-class classification and outlier detection. The idea of SVDD is to find a set of support vectors that defines a boundary around data. When…

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Supervised learning has recently garnered significant attention in the field of computational physics due to its ability to effectively extract complex patterns for tasks like solving partial differential equations, or predicting material…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Raphaël Carpintero Perez , Sébastien da Veiga , Josselin Garnier , Brian Staber

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are well-established Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. They rely on the fact that i) linear learning can be formalized as a well-posed optimization problem; ii) non-linear learning can be brought into linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christian Gagné , Marc Schoenauer , Michèle Sebag , Marco Tomassini

Due to the non-smoothness of the Hinge loss in SVM, it is difficult to obtain a faster convergence rate with modern optimization algorithms. In this paper, we introduce two smooth Hinge losses $\psi_G(\alpha;\sigma)$ and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 JunRu Luo , Hong Qiao , Bo Zhang

In this paper, we present new optimization models for Support Vector Machine (SVM), with the aim of separating data points in two or more classes. The classification task is handled by means of nonlinear classifiers induced by kernel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Francesca Maggioni , Andrea Spinelli

Quantum computing, with its potential to enhance various machine learning tasks, allows significant advancements in kernel calculation and model precision. Utilizing the one-class Support Vector Machine alongside a quantum kernel, known for…

Consider a Gaussian nonparametric regression problem having both an unknown mean function and unknown variance function. This article presents a class of difference-based kernel estimators for the variance function. Optimal convergence…

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Support vector machine (SVM) has attracted great attentions for the last two decades due to its extensive applications, and thus numerous optimization models have been proposed. To distinguish all of them, in this paper, we introduce a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Huajun Wang , Yuanhai Shao , Shenglong Zhou , Ce Zhang , Naihua Xiu