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The main purpose of our paper is a new approach to design of algorithms of Kaczmarz type in the framework of operators in Hilbert space. Our applications include a diverse list of optimization problems, new Karhunen-Lo\`eve transforms, and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song , James Tian

Interpolation and approximation of functionals with conditionally positive definite kernels is considered on sets of centers that are not determining for polynomials. It is shown that polynomial consistency is sufficient in order to define…

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Kernel mean embeddings are a popular tool that consists in representing probability measures by their infinite-dimensional mean embeddings in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. When the kernel is characteristic, mean embeddings can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Boris Muzellec , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

We consider conditions on a given system $\mathcal{F}$ of vectors in Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, forming a frame, which turn $\mathcal{H}$ into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. It is assumed that the vectors in $\mathcal{F}$ are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song

We study in this paper a smoothness regularization method for functional linear regression and provide a unified treatment for both the prediction and estimation problems. By developing a tool on simultaneous diagonalization of two positive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Ming Yuan , T. Tony Cai

We present a novel kernel-based machine learning algorithm for identifying the low-dimensional geometry of the effective dynamics of high-dimensional multiscale stochastic systems. Recently, the authors developed a mathematical framework…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Andreas Bittracher , Stefan Klus , Boumediene Hamzi , Péter Koltai , Christof Schütte

The theory of positive kernels and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, especially in the setting of holomorphic functions, has been an important tool for the last several decades in a number of areas of complex analysis and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Joseph A. Ball , Gregory Marx , Victor Vinnikov

A new notion of stochastic germs for quantum processes is introduced and a characterisation of the stochastic differentials for positive definite (PD) processes is found in terms of their germs for arbitrary Ito algebra. A representation…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. P. Belavkin

Kernel embeddings have emerged as a powerful tool for representing probability measures in a variety of statistical inference problems. By mapping probability measures into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), kernel embeddings enable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-31 Dino Sejdinovic

Kernel mean embeddings have recently attracted the attention of the machine learning community. They map measures $\mu$ from some set $M$ to functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) with kernel $k$. The RKHS distance of two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-18 Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel , Bernhard Schölkopf

We study the positive-definite completion problem for kernels on a variety of domains and prove results concerning the existence, uniqueness, and characterization of solutions. In particular, we study a special solution called the canonical…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Kartik G. Waghmare , Victor M. Panaretos

This paper studies random operator-valued positive definite (p.d.) kernels and their connection to moment dilations. A class of random p.d. kernels is introduced in which the positivity requirement is imposed only in expectation, extending…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-15 James Tian

The solution to a multivariate linear Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) with constant initial state is well known to be a Gaussian Markov process, but its covariance kernel involves the solution to an integral equation in the general…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Kerry Fendick

A recurrent theme in functional analysis is the interplay between the theory of positive definite functions, and their reproducing kernels, on the one hand, and Gaussian stochastic processes, on the other. This central theme is motivated by…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-15 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen

For two continuous and isotropic positive definite kernels on the same compact two-point homogeneous space, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions in order that their product be strictly positive definite. We also provide a…

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Strictly proper kernel scores are well-known tool in probabilistic forecasting, while characteristic kernels have been extensively investigated in the machine learning literature. We first show that both notions coincide, so that insights…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Ingo Steinwart , Johanna F. Ziegel

We start with a brief survey on H\"offding's kernels, its properties, related spectral decompositions, and discuss marginal distributions of H\"offding measures. In the second part of this note, one-dimensional covariance representations…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Sergey G. Bobkov , Devraj Duggal

We consider frames F in a given Hilbert space, and we show that every F may be obtained in a constructive way from a reproducing kernel and an orthonormal basis in an ambient Hilbert space. The construction is operator-theoretic, building…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Palle E. T. Jorgensen

We study positive kernels on $X\times X$, where $X$ is a set equipped with an action of a group, and taking values in the set of $\mathcal A$-sesquilinear forms on a (not necessarily Hilbert) module over a $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal A$. These…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Erkka Haapasalo , Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

Boundary Behaviour of Weighted Bergman Kernels: For a planar domain $D \subset \mathbb{C}$ and an admissible weight function $\mu$ on it, some aspects of the boundary behaviour of the corresponding weighted Bergman kernel $K_{D, \mu}$ are…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Aakanksha Jain , Kaushal Verma