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The kernel trick concept, formulated as an inner product in a feature space, facilitates powerful extensions to many well-known algorithms. While the kernel matrix involves inner products in the feature space, the sample covariance matrix…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-20 Tomer Lancewicki

We study fast algorithms for computing fundamental properties of a positive semidefinite kernel matrix $K \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ corresponding to $n$ points $x_1,\ldots,x_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$. In particular, we consider estimating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk , Cameron Musco , Tal Wagner

Matrices are typically considered over fields or rings. Motivated by applications in parametric differential equations and data-driven modeling, we suggest to study matrices with entries from a Hilbert space and present an elementary theory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Stanislav Budzinskiy

The empirical success of deep convolutional networks on tasks involving high-dimensional data such as images or audio suggests that they can efficiently approximate certain functions that are well-suited for such tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-22 Alberto Bietti

We introduce a novel topology, called Kernel Mean Embedding Topology, for stochastic kernels, in a weak and strong form. This topology, defined on the spaces of Bochner integrable functions from a signal space to a space of probability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Naci Saldi , Serdar Yuksel

The recent developments of basis pursuit and compressed sensing seek to extract information from as few samples as possible. In such applications, since the number of samples is restricted, one should deploy the sampling points wisely. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Rui Wang , Haizhang Zhang

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

We provide the first mathematically complete derivation of the Nystr\"om method for low-rank approximation of indefinite kernels and propose an efficient method for finding an approximate eigendecomposition of such kernel matrices. Building…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-03 Dino Oglic , Thomas Gärtner

This note consists of two largely independent parts. In the first part we give conditions on the kernel $k: \Omega \times \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space $H$ continuously embedded via the identity…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Marcin Wnuk

We study kernel regression with common rotation-invariant kernels on real datasets including CIFAR-5m, SVHN, and ImageNet. We give a theoretical framework that predicts learning curves (test risk vs. sample size) from only two measurements:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Dhruva Karkada , Joseph Turnbull , Yuxi Liu , James B. Simon

We study a reproducing kernel Hilbert space of functions defined on the positive integers and associated to the binomial coefficients. We introduce two transforms, which allow us to develop a related harmonic analysis in this Hilbert space.…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen

We prove a characterization for the Peetre type $K$-functional on $\mathbb{M}$, a compact two-point homogeneous space, in terms the rate of approximation of a family of multipliers operator defined to this purpose. This extends the well…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-25 A. O. Carrijo , T. Jordão

We show that if a reproducing kernel Hilbert space $H_K,$ consisting of functions defined on ${\bf E},$ enjoys Double Boundary Vanishing Condition (DBVC) and Linear Independent Condition (LIC), then for any preset natural number $n,$ and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Wei Qu , Tao Qian , Guan-Tie Deng

We develop a mathematical framework to address a broad class of metric and preference learning problems within a Hilbert space. We obtain a novel representer theorem for the simultaneous task of metric and preference learning. Our key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Peyman Morteza

Measuring similarity between incomplete data is a fundamental challenge in web mining, recommendation systems, and user behavior analysis. Traditional approaches either discard incomplete data or perform imputation as a preprocessing step,…

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To accelerate kernel methods, we propose a near input sparsity time algorithm for sampling the high-dimensional feature space implicitly defined by a kernel transformation. Our main contribution is an importance sampling method for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-15 David P. Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

This paper introduces a diagonal adaptive kernel model that dynamically learns kernel eigenvalues and output coefficients simultaneously during training. Unlike fixed-kernel methods tied to the neural tangent kernel theory, the diagonal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Yicheng Li , Qian Lin

This paper develops a frequentist solution to the functional calibration problem, where the value of a calibration parameter in a computer model is allowed to vary with the value of control variables in the physical system. The need of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-20 Rui Tuo , Shiyuan He , Arash Pourhabib , Yu Ding , Jianhua Z. Huang

Random Fourier features is one of the most popular techniques for scaling up kernel methods, such as kernel ridge regression. However, despite impressive empirical results, the statistical properties of random Fourier features are still not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Haim Avron , Michael Kapralov , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh