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Kernel methods are powerful machine learning techniques which implement generic non-linear functions to solve complex tasks in a simple way. They Have a solid mathematical background and exhibit excellent performance in practice. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 J. Emmanuel Johnson , Valero Laparra , Adrián Pérez-Suay , Miguel D. Mahecha , Gustau Camps-Valls

Empirical data can often be considered as samples from a set of probability distributions. Kernel methods have emerged as a natural approach for learning to classify these distributions. Although numerous kernels between distributions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Oleksii Kachaiev , Stefano Recanatesi

In this paper, we propose CKGAN, a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) variant based on an integral probability metrics framework with characteristic kernel (CKIPM). CKIPM, as a distance between two probability distributions, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Kuntian Zhang , Simin Yu , Yaoshu Wang , Makoto Onizuka , Chuan Xiao

We introduce Kernel Density Discrimination GAN (KDD GAN), a novel method for generative adversarial learning. KDD GAN formulates the training as a likelihood ratio optimization problem where the data distributions are written explicitly via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Abdelhak Lemkhenter , Adam Bielski , Alp Eren Sari , Paolo Favaro

Reliable identification of molecular biomarkers is essential for accurate patient stratification. While state-of-the-art machine learning approaches for sample classification continue to push boundaries in terms of performance, most of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-07 Matteo Manica , Joris Cadow , Roland Mathis , María Rodríguez Martínez

Metrics specifying distances between data points can be learned in a discriminative manner or from generative models. In this paper, we show how to unify generative and discriminative learning of metrics via a kernel learning framework.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-26 Yuan Shi , Yung-Kyun Noh , Fei Sha , Daniel D. Lee

Deep learning methods have predominantly been applied to large artificial neural networks. Despite their state-of-the-art performance, these large networks typically do not generalize well to datasets with limited sample sizes. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Eric Strobl , Shyam Visweswaran

In this work we introduce KERNELIZED TRANSFORMER, a generic, scalable, data driven framework for learning the kernel function in Transformers. Our framework approximates the Transformer kernel as a dot product between spectral feature maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Adamos Solomou , Avinava Dubey , Mrinmaya Sachan

Multiple kernel learning (MKL) algorithms combine different base kernels to obtain a more efficient representation in the feature space. Focusing on discriminative tasks, MKL has been used successfully for feature selection and finding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer

Convolutional kernels are basic and vital components of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). In this paper, we equip convolutional kernels with shape attributes to generate the deep Irregular Convolutional Neural Networks (ICNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jiabin Ma , Wei Wang , Liang Wang

Quantum kernel methods offer significant theoretical benefits by rendering classically inseparable features separable in quantum space. Yet, the practical application of Quantum Machine Learning (QML), currently constrained by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Philipp Altmann , Maximilian Mansky , Maximilian Zorn , Jonas Stein , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Kernel methods have great promise for learning rich statistical representations of large modern datasets. However, compared to neural networks, kernel methods have been perceived as lacking in scalability and flexibility. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Zichao Yang , Alexander J. Smola , Le Song , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Learning linear combinations of multiple kernels is an appealing strategy when the right choice of features is unknown. Previous approaches to multiple kernel learning (MKL) promote sparse kernel combinations to support interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Marius Kloft , Ulf Brefeld , Soeren Sonnenburg , Alexander Zien

Kernel methods are ubiquitous tools in machine learning. However, there is often little reason for the common practice of selecting a kernel a priori. Even if a universal approximating kernel is selected, the quality of the finite sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-31 Junier Oliva , Avinava Dubey , Andrew G. Wilson , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider , Eric P. Xing

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse multiple kernel learning (MKL), where the goal is to efficiently learn a combination of a fixed small number of kernels from a large pool that could lead to a kernel classifier with a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Quantum kernel methods, i.e., kernel methods with quantum kernels, offer distinct advantages as a hybrid quantum-classical approach to quantum machine learning (QML), including applicability to Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Daniel T. Chang

We consider the problem of learning a nonlinear function over a network of learners in a fully decentralized fashion. Online learning is additionally assumed, where every learner receives continuous streaming data locally. This learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jeongmin Chae , Songnam Hong

While in-context learning (ICL) has achieved remarkable success in natural language and vision domains, its theoretical understanding-particularly in the context of structured geometric data-remains unexplored. This paper initiates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaiming Shen , Alexander Hsu , Rongjie Lai , Wenjing Liao

Deep kernel learning refers to a Gaussian process that incorporates neural networks to improve the modelling of complex functions. We present a method that makes this approach feasible for problems where the data consists of line integral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-05 Carl Jidling , Johannes Hendriks , Thomas B. Schön , Adrian Wills

Graph kernels are historically the most widely-used technique for graph classification tasks. However, these methods suffer from limited performance because of the hand-crafted combinatorial features of graphs. In recent years, graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Aosong Feng , Chenyu You , Shiqiang Wang , Leandros Tassiulas