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Various approaches have been developed to upper bound the generalization error of a supervised learning algorithm. However, existing bounds are often loose and even vacuous when evaluated in practice. As a result, they may fail to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Gholamali Aminian , Yuheng Bu , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Gregory W. Wornell

Kernel interpolation is a versatile tool for the approximation of functions from data, and it can be proven to have some optimality properties when used with kernels related to certain Sobolev spaces. In the context of interpolation, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel , Bernard Haasdonk

We propose a general error analysis related to the low-rank approximation of a given real matrix in both the spectral and Frobenius norms. First, we derive deterministic error bounds that hold with some minimal assumptions. Second, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Youssef Diouane , Selime Gürol , Alexandre Scotto Di Perrotolo , Xavier Vasseur

Generalization error bounds are critical to understanding the performance of machine learning models. In this work, building upon a new bound of the expected value of an arbitrary function of the population and empirical risk of a learning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Gholamali Aminian , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

The high efficiency of a recently proposed method for computing with Gaussian processes relies on expanding a (translationally invariant) covariance kernel into complex exponentials, with frequencies lying on a Cartesian equispaced grid.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Alex Barnett , Philip Greengard , Manas Rachh

One of the most interesting problems in the recent renaissance of the studies in kernel regression might be whether the kernel interpolation can generalize well, since it may help us understand the `benign overfitting henomenon' reported in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yicheng Li , Haobo Zhang , Qian Lin

We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Francis Bach

This note establishes a theoretical framework for finding (potentially overparameterized) approximations of a function on a compact set with a-priori bounds for the generalization error. The approximation method considered is to choose,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Arthur C. B. de Oliveira , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester , Eduardo D. Sontag

We analyze the convergence of generalized kernel-based interpolation methods. This is done under minimalistic assumptions on both the kernel and the target function. On these grounds, we further prove convergence of popular greedy data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Kristof Albrecht , Armin Iske

The problem of establishing out-of-sample bounds for the values of an unkonwn ground-truth function is considered. Kernels and their associated Hilbert spaces are the main formalism employed herein along with an observational model where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Paul Scharnhorst , Emilio T. Maddalena , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones

In this paper, we develop a relative error bound for nuclear norm regularized matrix completion, with the focus on the completion of full-rank matrices. Under the assumption that the top eigenspaces of the target matrix are incoherent, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

We study the consistency of minimum-norm interpolation in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces corresponding to bounded kernels. Our main result give lower bounds for the generalization error of the kernel interpolation measured in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-30 Yunfei Yang

Bounding the generalization error of a supervised learning algorithm is one of the most important problems in learning theory, and various approaches have been developed. However, existing bounds are often loose and lack of guarantees. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Gholamali Aminian , Yuheng Bu , Laura Toni , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues , Gregory Wornell

Data sites selected from modeling high-dimensional problems often appear scattered in non-paternalistic ways. Except for sporadic clustering at some spots, they become relatively far apart as the dimension of the ambient space grows. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Shao-Bo Lin , Xiangyu Chang , Xingping Sun

Machine learning (ML) models often struggle to maintain performance under distribution shifts, leading to inaccurate predictions on unseen future data. In this work, we investigate whether and under what conditions models can achieve such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Divyam Madaan , Sumit Chopra , Kyunghyun Cho

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

In this paper, we derive entrywise error bounds for low-rank approximations of kernel matrices obtained using the truncated eigen-decomposition (or singular value decomposition). While this approximation is well-known to be optimal with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Alexander Modell

This paper presents novel generalization bounds for the multi-kernel learning problem. Motivated by applications in sensor networks and spatial-temporal models, we assume that the dataset is mixed where each sample is taken from a finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Lan V. Truong

In transfer learning, the learner leverages auxiliary data to improve generalization on a main task. However, the precise theoretical understanding of when and how auxiliary data help remains incomplete. We provide new insights on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Meitong Liu , Christopher Jung , Rui Li , Xue Feng , Han Zhao

Gaussian processes (GPs) are ubiquitous tools for modeling and predicting continuous processes in physical and engineering sciences. This is partly due to the fact that one may employ a Gaussian process as an interpolator while facilitating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 D. Andrew Brown , Peter Kiessler , John Nicholson