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In this paper we show how specific families of positive definite kernels serve as powerful tools in analyses of iteration algorithms for multiple layer feedforward Neural Network models. Our focus is on particular kernels that adapt well to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song , James Tian

Random Fourier features (RFFs) provide a promising way for kernel learning in a spectral case. Current RFFs-based kernel learning methods usually work in a two-stage way. In the first-stage process, learning the optimal feature map is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kun Fang , Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

Interpolation and approximation of functionals with conditionally positive definite kernels is considered on sets of centers that are not determining for polynomials. It is shown that polynomial consistency is sufficient in order to define…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Oleg Davydov

Dot product kernels, such as polynomial and exponential (softmax) kernels, are among the most widely used kernels in machine learning, as they enable modeling the interactions between input features, which is crucial in applications like…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-14 Jonas Wacker , Motonobu Kanagawa , Maurizio Filippone

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

The random feature (RF) approach is a well-established and efficient tool for scalable kernel methods, but existing literature has primarily focused on kernel ridge regression with random features (KRR-RF), which has limitations in handling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-18 Caixing Wang , Xingdong Feng

We provide the first mathematically complete derivation of the Nystr\"om method for low-rank approximation of indefinite kernels and propose an efficient method for finding an approximate eigendecomposition of such kernel matrices. Building…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-03 Dino Oglic , Thomas Gärtner

Most machine learning algorithms, such as classification or regression, treat the individual data point as the object of interest. Here we consider extending machine learning algorithms to operate on groups of data points. We suggest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Danica J. Sutherland , Liang Xiong , Barnabás Póczos , Jeff Schneider

We analyze the Nystr\"om approximation of a positive definite kernel associated with a probability measure. We first prove an improved error bound for the conventional Nystr\"om approximation with i.i.d. sampling and singular-value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Satoshi Hayakawa , Harald Oberhauser , Terry Lyons

Kernel function plays a crucial role in machine learning algorithms such as classifiers. In this paper, we aim to improve the classification performance and reduce the reading out burden of quantum classifiers. We devise a universally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Li Xu , Xiao-yu Zhang , Ming Li , Shu-qian Shen

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

We address the problem of filling missing entries in a kernel Gram matrix, given a related full Gram matrix. We attack this problem from the viewpoint of regression, assuming that the two kernel matrices can be considered as explanatory…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-11-10 Yoshihiro Yamanishi , Jean-Philippe Vert

In many applications of machine learning, a large number of variables are considered. Motivated by machine learning of interacting particle systems, we consider the situation when the number of input variables goes to infinity. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Sebastian Trimpe

In this paper, we develop a framework for information theoretic learning based on infinitely divisible matrices. We formulate an entropy-like functional on positive definite matrices based on Renyi's axiomatic definition of entropy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Jose C. Principe

Machine Learning techniques can be used to represent high-dimensional potential energy surfaces for reactive chemical systems. Two such methods are based on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space representation or on deep neural networks. They…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Oliver T. Unke , Markus Meuwly

We revisit Rahimi and Recht (2007)'s kernel random Fourier features (RFF) method through the lens of the PAC-Bayesian theory. While the primary goal of RFF is to approximate a kernel, we look at the Fourier transform as a prior distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-28 Gaël Letarte , Emilie Morvant , Pascal Germain

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

Kernel methods are one of the cornerstones of learning-based control, modern system identification, surrogate modelling, and related fields. A key advantage of this class of learning and function approximation methods is the availability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Tizian Wenzel , Abdullah Tokmak , Christian Fiedler

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

A Hilbert space embedding of a distribution---in short, a kernel mean embedding---has recently emerged as a powerful tool for machine learning and inference. The basic idea behind this framework is to map distributions into a reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-15 Krikamol Muandet , Kenji Fukumizu , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Bernhard Schölkopf