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Non-parametric goodness-of-fit testing procedures based on kernel Stein discrepancies (KSD) are promising approaches to validate general unnormalised distributions in various scenarios. Existing works focused on studying kernel choices to…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-02 Wenkai Xu

A mean function in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), or a kernel mean, is central to kernel methods in that it is used by many classical algorithms such as kernel principal component analysis, and it also forms the core inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-26 Krikamol Muandet , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu , Arthur Gretton , Bernhard Schölkopf

Given a reproducing kernel Hilbert space H of real-valued functions and a suitable measure mu over the source space D (subset of R), we decompose H as the sum of a subspace of centered functions for mu and its orthogonal in H. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-10 Nicolas Durrande , David Ginsbourger , Olivier Roustant , Laurent Carraro

We propose a new omnibus goodness-of-fit test based on trigonometric moments of probability-integral-transformed data. The test builds on the framework of the LK test introduced by Langholz and Kronmal [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 86 (1991),…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-31 Alain Desgagné , Frédéric Ouimet

Motivated by the growing interest in representation learning approaches that uncover the latent structure of high-dimensional data, this work proposes new algorithms for reconstruction-based manifold learning within Reproducing-Kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Enrique Feito-Casares , Francisco M. Melgarejo-Meseguer , José-Luis Rojo-Álvarez

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a well-known and popular nonparametric regression approach with many desirable properties, including minimax rate-optimality in estimating functions that belong to common reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-15 Arash A. Amini

We consider the goodness of fit testing problem for linear stochastic differential equation (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process). The basic hypothesis is supposed to be composite with two-dimensional unknown parameter. We study two goodness of fit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-16 Yury A. Kutoyants

Approximating the optimal value function $v^*$ for infinite-horizon, nonlinear, autonomous optimal control problems is both challenging and essential for synthesizing real-time optimal feedback. We develop an abstract optimal recovery…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Tobias Ehring , Behzad Azmi , Bernard Haasdonk

We present a new framework to address the non-convex robust hypothesis testing problem, wherein the goal is to seek the optimal detector that minimizes the maximum of worst-case type-I and type-II risk functions. The distributional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-25 Jie Wang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

An extension of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) theory provides a new framework for modeling functional regression models with functional responses. The approach only presumes a general nonlinear regression structure as opposed to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Heng Lian

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

We review machine learning methods employing positive definite kernels. These methods formulate learning and estimation problems in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) of functions defined on the data domain, expanded in terms of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Thomas Hofmann , Bernhard Schölkopf , Alexander J. Smola

This paper presents a novel approach to formulating the actor-critic method for optimal control by casting policy iteration in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs -- also known as native spaces). By tailoring the reproducing kernel and…

This paper presents a kernel-based discriminative learning framework on probability measures. Rather than relying on large collections of vectorial training examples, our framework learns using a collection of probability distributions that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-15 Krikamol Muandet , Kenji Fukumizu , Francesco Dinuzzo , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

Starting with the correspondence between positive definite kernels on the one hand and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) on the other, we turn to a detailed analysis of associated measures and Gaussian processes. Point of departure:…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

Recent advances in machine learning have led to increased interest in reproducing kernel Banach spaces (RKBS) as a more general framework that extends beyond reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). These works have resulted in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Akash Kumar , Mikhail Belkin , Parthe Pandit

We propose kernel distributionally robust optimization (Kernel DRO) using insights from the robust optimization theory and functional analysis. Our method uses reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) to construct a wide range of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Jia-Jie Zhu , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Moritz Diehl , Bernhard Schölkopf

We provide a unifying framework linking two classes of statistics used in two-sample and independence testing: on the one hand, the energy distances and distance covariances from the statistics literature; on the other, maximum mean…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-11-13 Dino Sejdinovic , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Arthur Gretton , Kenji Fukumizu

In this paper, an adaptive non-parametric method is proposed to estimate the scalar-valued nonlinear function that appears in uncertain systems governed by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). By employing an infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Jia Guo , Sai Tej Paruchuri , Andrew J. Kurdila