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We present a data-driven method for computing approximate forward reachable sets using separating kernels in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We frame the problem as a support estimation problem, and learn a classifier of the support as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Adam J. Thorpe , Kendric R. Ortiz , Meeko M. K. Oishi

We propose Sobolev-regularized Maximum Mean Discrepancy (SrMMD) gradient flow, a regularized variant of maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) gradient flow based on a gradient penalty on the witness function. The proposed regularization mitigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chenyang Tian , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Arthur Gretton , Zonghao Chen

A function approximation method is developed that aims to approximate a function in a small neighborhood of a state that travels within a compact set. The development is based on the theory of universal reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Joel A. Rosenfeld , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Warren E. Dixon

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

Mirror Descent (MD) is a scalable first-order method widely used in large-scale optimization, with applications in image processing, policy optimization, and neural network training. This paper generalizes MD to optimization on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Jiaxin Jiang , Lei Shi , Jiyuan Tan

Kernel-based methods in Numerical Analysis have the advantage of yielding optimal recovery processes in the "native" Hilbert space $\calh$ in which they are reproducing. Continuous kernels on compact domains have an expansion into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Gabriele Santin , Robert Schaback

The purpose of this paper is to establish that for any compact, connected C^{\infty} Riemannian manifold there exists a robust family of kernels of increasing smoothness that are well suited for interpolation. They generate Lagrange…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-07-20 Thomas Hangelbroek , Fran J. Narcowich , Joe D. Ward

A kernel method for estimating a probability density function (pdf) from an i.i.d. sample drawn from such density is presented. Our estimator is a linear combination of kernel functions, the coefficients of which are determined by a linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Yoshihito Kazashi , Fabio Nobile

We consider the problem of clustering a sample of probability distributions from a random distribution on $\mathbb R^p$. Our proposed partitioning method makes use of a symmetric, positive-definite kernel $k$ and its associated reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-23 Amparo Baíllo , Jose R. Berrendero , Martín Sánchez-Signorini

Consider a Urysohn integral equation $x - \mathcal{K} (x) = f$, where $f$ and the integral operator $\mathcal{K}$ with kernel of the type of Green's function are given. In the computation of approximate solutions of the given integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Gobinda Rakshit

It is proven that encoding images and videos through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices, and considering the Riemannian geometry of the resulting space, can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Azadeh Alavi , Vishal M Patel , Rama Chellappa

Sparse subspace clustering (SSC), as one of the most successful subspace clustering methods, has achieved notable clustering accuracy in computer vision tasks. However, SSC applies only to vector data in Euclidean space. As such, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Ming Yin , Yi Guo , Junbin Gao , Zhaoshui He , Shengli Xie

In this article, we propose a new error bound for Koopman operator approximation using Kernel Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition. The new estimate is $O(N^{-1/2})$, with a constant related to the probability of success of the bound, given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Diego Olguín , Axel Osses , Héctor Ramírez

We introduce two versions of a new sketch for approximately embedding the Gaussian kernel into Euclidean inner product space. These work by truncating infinite expansions of the Gaussian kernel, and carefully invoking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Jeff M. Phillips , Wai Ming Tai

We consider linear approximation based on function evaluations in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of certain analytic weighted power series kernels and stationary kernels on the interval $[-1,1]$. Both classes contain the popular Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Toni Karvonen , Yuya Suzuki

We introduce a distance between kernels based on the Wasserstein distances between their values, study its properties, and prove that it is a metric on an appropriately defined space of kernels. We also relate it to various modes of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Zhengqi Lin , Andrzej Ruszczynski

Approximate solutions of linear and nonlinear integral equations using methods related to an interpolatory projection involve many integrals which need to be evaluated using a numerical quadrature formula. In this paper, we consider…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Rekha P. Kulkarni , Gobinda Rakshit

We investigate the problem of finding inner ap-proximations of positive semidefinite (PSD) cones. We developa novel decomposition framework of the PSD cone by meansof conical combinations of smaller dimensional sub-cones. Weshow that many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Tianqi Zheng , James Guthrie , Enrique Mallada

We propose a novel kernel-based two-sample test that leverages the spectral decomposition of the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) statistic to identify and utilize well-estimated directional components in reproducing kernel Hilbert space…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Rui Cui , Yuhao Li , Xiaojun Song

This letter provides an adaptive resampling method. It determines the number of particles to resample so that the Kullback-Leibler distance (KLD) between distribution of particles before resampling and after resampling does not exceed a…

Applications · Statistics 2017-07-31 Tiancheng Li , Shudong Sun , Tariq Pervez Sattar