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Kernel methods are powerful tools in various data analysis tasks. Yet, in many cases, their time and space complexity render them impractical for large datasets. Various kernel approximation methods were proposed to overcome this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Roy Mitz , Yoel Shkolnisky

We prove sharp two-sided global estimates for the heat kernel associated with a Euclidean sphere of arbitrary dimension. This solves a long-standing open problem.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Adam Nowak , Peter Sjögren , Tomasz Z. Szarek

Needlets have been recognized as state-of-the-art tools to tackle spherical data, due to their excellent localization properties in both spacial and frequency domains. This paper considers developing kernel methods associated with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Shaobo Lin

Identification of model parameters in computer simulations is an important topic in computer experiments. We propose a new method, called the projected kernel calibration method, to estimate these model parameters. The proposed method is…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-10 Rui Tuo

The use of second order boundary kernels for distribution function estimation was recently addressed in the literature (C. Tenreiro, 2013, Boundary kernels for distribution function estimation, REVSTAT-Statistical Journal, 11, 169-190). In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Carlos Tenreiro

In data science, individual observations are often assumed to come independently from an underlying probability space. Kernel matrices formed from large sets of such observations arise frequently, for example during classification tasks. It…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Mikhail Lepilov

The kernel-based multi-scale method has been proven to be a powerful approximation method for scattered data approximation problems which is computationally superior to conventional kernel-based interpolation techniques. The multi-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Federico Lot , Christian Rieger

This paper presents new quadrature rules for functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space using nodes drawn by a sampling algorithm known as randomly pivoted Cholesky. The resulting computational procedure compares favorably to previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Ethan N. Epperly , Elvira Moreno

In this article, we prove the transformation formula for the reduced Bergman kernels under proper holomorphic correspondences between bounded domains in the complex plane. As a corollary, we obtain the transformation formula for the reduced…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Sahil Gehlawat , Aakanksha Jain , Amar Deep Sarkar

We consider rational points on the sphere and investigate their equidistribution in shrinking spherical caps. For the two-dimensional sphere, we leverage Hecke operators to obtain a significantly improved small-scale equidistribution bound,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Claire Burrin , Matthias Gröbner

This paper introduces a multilevel kernel-based approximation method to estimate efficiently solutions to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with periodic random coefficients. Building upon the work of Kaarnioja, Kazashi, Kuo,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Alexander D. Gilbert , Michael B. Giles , Frances Y. Kuo , Ian H. Sloan , Abirami Srikumar

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive kernel for the radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. The proposed kernel adaptively fuses the Euclidean and cosine distance measures to exploit the reciprocating properties of the two. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-10 Shujaat Khan , Imran Naseem , Roberto Togneri , Mohammed Bennamoun

In this paper we formulate a weighted version of minimum problem (1.4) on the sphere and we show that, for $K\le L$, if $\set{\phi_k}^K_{k=1}$ consists of the spherical functions with degree less than $N$ we can localize the points…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-08-11 Margit Pap

This article deals with the numerical approximation of effective coefficients in stochastic homogenization of discrete linear elliptic equations. The originality of this work is the use of a well-known abstract spectral representation…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Antoine Gloria , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

We propose a framework for 2D shape analysis using positive definite kernels defined on Kendall's shape manifold. Different representations of 2D shapes are known to generate different nonlinear spaces. Due to the nonlinearity of these…

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

The use of kernel functions is a common technique to extract important features from data sets. A quantum computer can be used to estimate kernel entries as transition amplitudes of unitary circuits. Quantum kernels exist that, subject to…

A brief report on recent work on the sphere-packing problem.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-16 N. J. A. Sloane

We propose a spherical kernel for efficient graph convolution of 3D point clouds. Our metric-based kernels systematically quantize the local 3D space to identify distinctive geometric relationships in the data. Similar to the regular grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Huan Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

The kernel interpolant in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space is optimal in the worst-case sense among all approximations of a function using the same set of function values. In this paper, we compare two search criteria to construct lattice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Frances Y. Kuo , Weiwen Mo , Dirk Nuyens , Ian H. Sloan , Abirami Srikumar

This article gives a new insight of kernel-based (approximation) methods to solve the high-dimensional stochastic partial differential equations. We will combine the techniques of meshfree approximation and kriging interpolation to extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Qi Ye