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Supervised learning in reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) and vector-valued RKHS (vvRKHS) has been investigated for more than 30 years. In this paper, we provide a new twist to this rich literature by generalizing supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Yuka Hashimoto , Masahiro Ikeda , Hachem Kadri

We consider an incremental approximation method for solving variational problems in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, where in each step a randomly and independently selected subproblem from an infinite collection of subproblems is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Michael Griebel , Peter Oswald

We propose and analyse primal-dual interior-point algorithms for convex optimization problems in conic form. The families of algorithms we analyse are so-called short-step algorithms and they match the current best iteration complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tor Myklebust , Levent Tunçel

This paper addresses the problem of approximating an unknown function from point evaluations. When obtaining these point evaluations is costly, minimising the required sample size becomes crucial, and it is unreasonable to reserve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Nando Hegemann , Anthony Nouy , Philipp Trunschke

We characterize the reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces whose elements are $p$-integrable functions in terms of the boundedness of the integral operator whose kernel is the reproducing kernel. Moreover, for $p=2$ we show that the spectral…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Carmeli , Ernesto De Vito , Alessandro Toigo

Abstract. The Set Intersection Problem (SIP) is the problem of finding a point in the intersection of convex sets. This problem is typically solved by the method of alternating projections. To accelerate the convergence, the idea of using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-17 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

In this work we investigate the relationship between kernel regularity and algorithmic performance in the bandit optimization of RKHS functions. While reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods traditionally rely on global kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-08 Madison Lee , Tara Javidi

The LP-Newton method solves the linear programming problem (LP) by repeatedly projecting a current point onto a certain relevant polytope. In this paper, we extend the algorithmic framework of the LP-Newton method to the second-order cone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Takayuki Okuno , Mirai Tanaka

We consider the problem of learning a set from random samples. We show how relevant geometric and topological properties of a set can be studied analytically using concepts from the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. A new kind of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-26 Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco , Alessandro Toigo

In this paper, we study regression problems over a separable Hilbert space with the square loss, covering non-parametric regression over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We investigate a class of spectral/regularized algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-18 Junhong Lin , Alessandro Rudi , Lorenzo Rosasco , Volkan Cevher

In this work we analyze a convex-programming method for estimating superpositions of point sources or spikes from nonuniform samples of their convolution with a known kernel. We consider a one-dimensional model where the kernel is either a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Brett Bernstein , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

We consider the following problem in computational geometry: given, in the d-dimensional real space, a set of points marked as positive and a set of points marked as negative, such that the convex hull of the positive set does not intersect…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Michele Barbato , Alberto Ceselli , Rosario Messana

We develop a decomposition algorithm for distributionally-robust two-stage stochastic mixed-integer convex cone programs, and its important special case of distributionally-robust two-stage stochastic mixed-integer second order cone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Fengqiao Luo , Sanjay Mehrotra

In this paper we study the kernel change-point algorithm (KCP) proposed by Arlot, Celisse and Harchaoui (2012), which aims at locating an unknown number of change-points in the distribution of a sequence of independent data taking values in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Damien Garreau , Sylvain Arlot

This short technical report presents some learning theory results on vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) regression, where the input space is allowed to be non-compact and the output space is a (possibly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-17 Junhyunng Park , Krikamol Muandet

Learning kernels in operators from data lies at the intersection of inverse problems and statistical learning, providing a powerful framework for capturing non-local dependencies in function spaces and high-dimensional settings. In contrast…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sichong Zhang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu

This paper presents new quadrature rules for functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space using nodes drawn by a sampling algorithm known as randomly pivoted Cholesky. The resulting computational procedure compares favorably to previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Ethan N. Epperly , Elvira Moreno

This paper improves the algorithms based on supporting halfspaces and quadratic programming for convex set intersection problems in our earlier paper in several directions. First, we give conditions so that much smaller quadratic programs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-17 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

The general perception is that kernel methods are not scalable, and neural nets are the methods of choice for nonlinear learning problems. Or have we simply not tried hard enough for kernel methods? Here we propose an approach that scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Bo Dai , Bo Xie , Niao He , Yingyu Liang , Anant Raj , Maria-Florina Balcan , Le Song

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies represented in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) offer powerful representational capabilities. While second-order optimization methods like Newton's method demonstrate faster convergence than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yixian Zhang , Huaze Tang , Chao Wang , Wenbo Ding