English
Related papers

Related papers: A Note on Some Approximation Kernels on the Sphere

200 papers

Random Fourier features (RFF) represent one of the most popular and wide-spread techniques in machine learning to scale up kernel algorithms. Despite the numerous successful applications of RFFs, unfortunately, quite little is understood…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-12 Zoltan Szabo , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

A basic problem of approximation theory, the approximation of functions from the Sobolev space W_p^r([0,1]^d) in the norm of L_q([0,1]^d), is considered from the point of view of quantum computation. We determine the quantum query…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Heinrich

Starting with a similarity function between objects, it is possible to define a distance metric on pairs of objects, and more generally on probability distributions over them. These distance metrics have a deep basis in functional analysis,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Sarang Joshi , Raj Varma Kommaraju , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

In this work we consider the problem of learning a positive semidefinite kernel matrix from relative comparisons of the form: "object A is more similar to object B than it is to C", where comparisons are given by humans. Existing solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Eric Heim , Hamed Valizadegan , Milos Hauskrecht

We call a kind of mappings induced by a kind of weighted Laplace operator as complex valued kernel $\alpha$-harmonic mappings. In this article, for this class of mappings, the Heinz type lemma is established, and the best Heinz type…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Boyong Long

Quantum kernel methods are a promising branch of quantum machine learning, yet their effectiveness on diverse, high-dimensional, real-world data remains unverified. Current research has largely been limited to low-dimensional or synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jiang Yuhan , Matthew Otten

Kernel density estimation is a convenient way to estimate the probability density of a distribution given the sample of data points. However, it has certain drawbacks: proper description of the density using narrow kernels needs large data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-02-27 Anton Poluektov

We develop a wavelet like representation of functions in $L^p(\mathbb{R})$ based on their Fourier--Hermite coefficients; i.e., we describe an expansion of such functions where the local behavior of the terms characterize completely the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 H. N. Mhaskar

Kernel methods, being supported by a well-developed theory and coming with efficient algorithms, are among the most popular and successful machine learning techniques. From a mathematical point of view, these methods rest on the concept of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-20 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Michael Rom , Chiara Segala , Sebastian Trimpe

The goal of this note is to show that continuous functions may be approximated using scattered translates of the Poisson kernel.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Jeff Ledford

A new formalism is derived for the analysis and exact reconstruction of band-limited signals on the sphere with directional wavelets. It represents an evolution of the wavelet formalism developed by Antoine & Vandergheynst (1999) and Wiaux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-09 Y. Wiaux , J. D. McEwen , P. Vandergheynst , O. Blanc

We introduce two versions of a new sketch for approximately embedding the Gaussian kernel into Euclidean inner product space. These work by truncating infinite expansions of the Gaussian kernel, and carefully invoking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Jeff M. Phillips , Wai Ming Tai

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

A kernel method is proposed to estimate the condensed density of the generalized eigenvalues of pencils of Hankel matrices whose elements have a joint noncentral Gaussian distribution with nonidentical covariance. These pencils arise when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Piero Barone

We derive a novel integral representations of Jacobi polynomials in terms of the Gauss hypergeometric function. Such representation is then used to give the explicit integral representation for the Heat kernel on the quantized Riemann…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Ali Hafoud , Allal Ghanmi

While direct statements for kernel based interpolation on regions $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ are well researched, far less is known about corresponding inverse statements. The available inverse statements for kernel based interpolation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Tizian Wenzel

We tackle the problem of optimizing over all possible positive definite radial kernels on Riemannian manifolds for classification. Kernel methods on Riemannian manifolds have recently become increasingly popular in computer vision. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Richard Hartley , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

This article addresses two topics of significant mathematical and practical interest in the theory of kernel approximation: the existence of local and stable bases and the L_p--boundedness of the least squares operator. The latter is an…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-03-10 Thomas Hangelbroek , Fran J Narcowich , Xingping Sun , Joe D Ward

In this paper we construct a hierarchy of multivariate polynomial approximation kernels via semidefinite programming. We give details on the implementation of the semidefinite programs defining the kernels. Finally, we show how a symmetry…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Felix Kirschner , Etienne de Klerk

For two decades, reproducing kernels and their associated discrepancies have facilitated elegant theoretical analyses in the setting of quasi Monte Carlo. These same tools are now receiving interest in statistics and related fields, as…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-24 Chris. J. Oates