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Occupancy mapping has been widely utilized to represent the surroundings for autonomous robots to perform tasks such as navigation and manipulation. While occupancy mapping in 2-D environments has been well-studied, there have been few…

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In this paper we consider the problems of supervised classification and regression in the case where attributes and labels are functions: a data is represented by a set of functions, and the label is also a function. We focus on the use of…

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Learning a nonparametric system of ordinary differential equations from trajectories in a $d$-dimensional state space requires learning $d$ functions of $d$ variables. Explicit formulations often scale quadratically in $d$ unless additional…

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We introduce a unified framework for learning the spatio-temporal dynamics of vector valued functions by combining operator valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (OV-RKHS) with kernel based Koopman operator methods. The approach enables…

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The fields of signal processing and information theory have evolved with the goal of developing formulations to extract intrinsic information from limited amount of data. When one considers the modeling of unpredictably varying processes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-07 Rishabh Singh , Jose C. Principe

Koopman operator provides a general linear description of nonlinear systems, whose estimation from data (via extended dynamic mode decomposition) has been extensively studied. However, the elusiveness between the Koopman spectrum and the…

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This paper proposes a fully data-driven approach for optimal control of nonlinear control-affine systems represented by a stochastic diffusion. The focus is on the scenario where both the nonlinear dynamics and stage cost functions are…

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We present a kernel-based methodology for constructing Lyapunov functions for nonlinear dynamical systems using approximate Koopman eigenfunctions. Our approach decomposes principal Koopman eigenfunctions into linear and nonlinear…

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Research in modern data-driven dynamical systems is typically focused on the three key challenges of high dimensionality, unknown dynamics, and nonlinearity. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a cornerstone for modeling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-27 Peter J. Baddoo , Benjamin Herrmann , Beverley J. McKeon , Steven L. Brunton

Recently, some works have suggested methods to combine variational probabilistic inference with Monte Carlo sampling. One promising approach is via local optimal transport. In this approach, a gradient steepest descent method based on local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Manuel Pulido , Peter Jan vanLeeuwen , Derek J. Posselt

Reduced modeling in high-dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces offers the opportunity to approximate efficiently non-linear dynamics. In this work, we devise an algorithm based on low rank constraint optimization and kernel-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-23 Patrick Heas , Cedric Herzet , Benoit Combes

We propose a data-driven framework to learn interaction kernels in stochastic multi-agent systems. Our approach aims at identifying the functional form of nonlocal interaction and diffusion terms directly from trajectory data, without any a…

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In this paper, we consider modeling missing dynamics with a nonparametric non-Markovian model, constructed using the theory of kernel embedding of conditional distributions on appropriate Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS), equipped…

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A framework for coherent pattern extraction and prediction of observables of measure-preserving, ergodic dynamical systems with both atomic and continuous spectral components is developed. It is based on an approximation of the generator of…

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In this paper, we discuss the problem of system identification when frequency domain side information is available on the system. Initially, we consider the case where the prior knowledge is provided as being the $\Hcal_{\infty}$-norm of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Mohammad Khosravi , Roy S. Smith

These notes provide a self-contained introduction to kernel methods and their geometric foundations in machine learning. Starting from the construction of Hilbert spaces, we develop the theory of positive definite kernels, reproducing…

Functional linear and single-index models are core regression methods in functional data analysis and are widely used for performing regression in a wide range of applications when the covariates are random functions coupled with scalar…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Hans-Georg Müller , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Previous analysis of regularized functional linear regression in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) typically requires the target function to be contained in this kernel space. This paper studies the convergence performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Jiading Liu , Lei Shi

In recent years, the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) theory has played a crucial role in linear system identification. The core of a RKHS is the associated kernel characterizing its properties. Accordingly, this work studies the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Mohammad Khosravi , Roy S. Smith

Many scientific problems involve data exhibiting both temporal and cross-sectional dependencies. While linear dependencies have been extensively studied, the theoretical analysis of regression estimators under nonlinear dependencies remains…

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