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The study of Koopman and Liouville operators over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) has been gaining considerable interest over the past decade. In particular, these operators represent nonlinear dynamical systems, and through the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Sushant Pokhriyal , Joel A Rosenfeld

A new framework is developed to intrinsically analyze sparsely observed Riemannian functional data. It features four innovative components: a frame-independent covariance function, a smooth vector bundle termed covariance vector bundle, a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-18 Lingxuan Shao , Zhenhua Lin , Fang Yao

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) are key spaces for machine learning that are becoming popular also for linear system identification. In particular, the so-called stable RKHSs can be used to model absolutely summable impulse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mauro Bisiacco , Gianluigi Pillonetto

Compositional data, such as human gut microbiomes, consist of non-negative variables whose only the relative values to other variables are available. Analyzing compositional data such as human gut microbiomes needs a careful treatment of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-04 Binglin Li , Jeongyoun Ahn

A new formalism to express and operate on diversity measures of qualitative variables, built in a Hilbert space, is presented. The abstract character of the Hilbert space naturally incorporates the equivalence between qualitative variables…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-09 Juan D. Botero , Leonardo A. Pachón

Learning from examples is one of the key problems in science and engineering. It deals with function reconstruction from a finite set of direct and noisy samples. Regularization in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) is widely used to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Gianluigi Pillonetto

Rerandomization, a design that utilizes pretreatment covariates and improves their balance between different treatment groups, has received attention recently in both theory and practice. From a survey by Bruhn and McKenzie (2009), there…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-17 Yuhao Wang , Xinran Li

For statistical inference on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $\H $ with no moment conditions we introduce a new class of energy distances on the space of probability measures on $\H$. The proposed distances consist of the integrated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Holger Dette , Jiajun Tang

In this paper, a novel Bayesian nonparametric test for assessing multivariate normal models is presented. While there are extensive frequentist and graphical methods for testing multivariate normality, it is challenging to find Bayesian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Luai Al-Labadi , Forough Fazeli Asl , Zahra Saberi

Motivated by establishing theoretical foundations for various manifold learning algorithms, we study the problem of Mahalanobis distance (MD), and the associated precision matrix, estimation from high-dimensional noisy data. By relying on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Matan Gavish , Ronen Talmon , Pei-Chun Su , Hau-Tieng Wu

Safe autonomous driving critically depends on how well the ego-vehicle can predict the trajectories of neighboring vehicles. To this end, several trajectory prediction algorithms have been presented in the existing literature. Many of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Basant Sharma , Aditya Sharma , K. Madhava Krishna , Arun Kumar Singh

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) are special Hilbert spaces where all the evaluation functionals are linear and bounded. They are in one-to-one correspondence with positive definite maps called kernels. Stable RKHSs enjoy the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Mauro Bisiacco , Gianluigi Pillonetto

Traditional functional linear regression usually takes a one-dimensional functional predictor as input and estimates the continuous coefficient function. Modern applications often generate two-dimensional covariates, which become matrices…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-26 Dan Yang , Jianlong Shao , Haipeng Shen , Hongtu Zhu

This paper considers different facets of the interplay between reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) and stable analysis/synthesis processes: First, we analyze the structure of the reproducing kernel of a RKHS using frames and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Michael Speckbacher , Peter Balazs

It is more and more frequently the case in applications that the data we observe come from one or more random variables taking values in an infinite dimensional space, e.g. curves. The need to have tools adapted to the nature of these data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Angelina Roche

Kernel Adaptive Filtering (KAF) are mathematically principled methods which search for a function in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. While they work well for tasks such as time series prediction and system identification they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Benjamin Colburn , Jose C. Principe , Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo

In this paper, we study a smoothness regularization method for a varying coefficient model based on sparse and irregularly sampled functional data which is contaminated with some measurement errors. We estimate the one-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-28 Behdad Mostafaiy

Previous analysis of regularized functional linear regression in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) typically requires the target function to be contained in this kernel space. This paper studies the convergence performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Jiading Liu , Lei Shi

Several scalable sample-based methods to compute the Kullback Leibler (KL) divergence between two distributions have been proposed and applied in large-scale machine learning models. While they have been found to be unstable, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sandesh Ghimire , Prashnna K Gyawali , Linwei Wang

We propose inferential tools for functional linear quantile regression where the conditional quantile of a scalar response is assumed to be a linear functional of a functional covariate. In contrast to conventional approaches, we employ…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Peijun Sang , Zuofeng Shang , Pang Du