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In this paper, a new two-parameter family of regularized kernels is introduced, suitable for applying high-order time stepping to N-body systems. These high-order kernels are derived by truncating a Taylor expansion of the non-regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Benjamin Ong , Andrew Christlieb , Bryan Quaife

We study a class of Gaussian processes for which the posterior mean, for a particular choice of data, replicates a truncated Taylor expansion of any order. The data consist of derivative evaluations at the expansion point and the prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Toni Karvonen , Jon Cockayne , Filip Tronarp , Simo Särkkä

This article studies sufficient conditions on families of approximating kernels which provide $N$--term approximation errors from an associated nonlinear approximation space which match the best known orders of $N$--term wavelet expansion.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Keaton Hamm , Jeff Ledford

A generalization of the Gr\"{u}nwald difference approximation for fractional derivatives in terms of a real sequence and its generating function is presented. Properties of the generating function are derived for consistency and order of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 H. M. Nasir , K. Nafa

We show that the introduction of a minimal length in the context of non-commutative spacetime gives rise (after some considerations) to higher-order theories. We then explicitly demonstrate how these higher-derivative theories appear as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-06 Marco Dias , Julio M. Hoff da Silva , Eslley Scatena

Reliable prediction of protein variant effects is crucial for both protein optimization and for advancing biological understanding. For practical use in protein engineering, it is important that we can also provide reliable uncertainty…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-01 Peter Mørch Groth , Mads Herbert Kerrn , Lars Olsen , Jesper Salomon , Wouter Boomsma

Models like support vector machines or Gaussian process regression often require positive semi-definite kernels. These kernels may be based on distance functions. While definiteness is proven for common distances and kernels, a proof for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Günter Rudolph

In this paper I discuss how to consistently incorporate higher-order corrections to the bubble-nucleation rate at finite temperature. Doing so I examine the merits of different approaches, with the goal of reducing uncertainties for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Andreas Ekstedt

This paper pursues a twofold goal. First, we introduce and study in detail a new notion of variational analysis called generalized metric subregularity, which is a far-going extension of the conventional metric subregularity conditions. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Guoyin Li , Boris Mordukhovich , Jiangxing Zhu

The Weisfeiler-Lehman graph kernels are among the most prevalent graph kernels due to their remarkable time complexity and predictive performance. Their key concept is based on an implicit comparison of neighborhood representing trees with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Till Hendrik Schulz , Tamás Horváth , Pascal Welke , Stefan Wrobel

Gradient-based approximate inference methods, such as Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), provide simple and general-purpose inference engines for differentiable continuous distributions. However, existing forms of SVGD cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jun Han , Fan Ding , Xianglong Liu , Lorenzo Torresani , Jian Peng , Qiang Liu

The Gaussian kernel and its derivatives have already been employed for Convolutional Neural Networks in several previous works. Most of these papers proposed to compute filters by linearly combining one or several bases of fixed or slightly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Valentin Penaud--Polge , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

To target challenges in differentiable optimization we analyze and propose strategies for derivatives of the Mat\'ern kernel with respect to the smoothness parameter. This problem is of high interest in Gaussian processes modelling due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Oana Marin , Christopher Geoga , Michel Schanen

Starting with an exact and simple geodesic, we generate approximate geodesics by summing up higher-order geodesic deviations within a General Relativistic setting, without using Newtonian and post-Newtonian approximations. We apply this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Colistete , C. Leygnac , R. Kerner

Kernel two-sample tests have been widely used for multivariate data to test equality of distributions. However, existing tests based on mapping distributions into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space mainly target specific alternatives and do…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-21 Hoseung Song , Hao Chen

Vecchia's approximate likelihood for Gaussian process parameters depends on how the observations are ordered, which can be viewed as a deficiency because the exact likelihood is permutation-invariant. This article takes the alternative…

Computation · Statistics 2018-02-20 Joseph Guinness

Motivated by small bandwidth asymptotics for kernel-based semiparametric estimators in econometrics, this paper establishes Gaussian approximation results for high-dimensional fixed-order $U$-statistics whose kernels depend on the sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Shunsuke Imai , Yuta Koike

Coarse graining is a common imperfection of realistic quantum measurement, obstructing the direct observation of quantum features. Under highly coarse-grained measurement, we experimentally detect the continuous-variable nonclassicality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Chan Roh , Young-Do Yoon , Jiyong Park , Young-Sik Ra

This paper develops an in-depth treatment concerning the problem of approximating the Gaussian smoothing and Gaussian derivative computations in scale-space theory for application on discrete data. With close connections to previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tony Lindeberg

We obtain Stein approximation bounds for stochastic integrals with respect to a Poisson random measure over ${\Bbb R}^d$, $d\geq 2$. This approach relies on third cumulant Edgeworth-type expansions based on derivation operators defined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Nicolas Privault