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The spectral density function describes the second-order properties of a stationary stochastic process on $\mathbb{R}^d$. This paper considers the nonparametric estimation of the spectral density of a continuous-time stochastic process…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Rafail Kartsioukas , Stilian Stoev , Tailen Hsing

This monograph studies the relations between two approaches using positive definite kernels: probabilistic methods using Gaussian processes, and non-probabilistic methods using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). They are widely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Motonobu Kanagawa , Philipp Hennig , Dino Sejdinovic , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

General, especially spectral, features of compact normal operators in quaternionic Hilbert spaces are studied and some results are established which generalize well-known properties of compact normal operators in complex Hilbert spaces.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Riccardo Ghiloni , Valter Moretti , Alessandro Perotti

Gaussian process is a theoretically appealing model for nonparametric analysis, but its computational cumbersomeness hinders its use in large scale and the existing reduced-rank solutions are usually heuristic. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-25 Leo L. Duan , Xia Wang , Rhonda D. Szczesniak

In this article, we explore the celebrated Gr\"{u}ss inequality, where we present a new approach using the Gr\"{u}ss inequality to obtain new refinements of operator means inequalities. We also present several operator Gr\"{u}ss-type…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-17 H. R. Moradi , S. Furuichi , Z. Heydarbeygi , M. Sababheh

Gaussian processes are ubiquitous in machine learning, statistics, and applied mathematics. They provide a flexible modelling framework for approximating functions, whilst simultaneously quantifying uncertainty. However, this is only true…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-19 George Wynne , François-Xavier Briol , Mark Girolami

Gaussian processes are widely used for accurate emulation of unknown surfaces in sequential design of expensive simulation experiments. Integrated mean squared error (IMSE) is an effective acquisition function for sequential designs based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Huanyan Zhu , Cheng Li

A quantum probability measure is a function on a sigma-algebra of subsets of a (locally compact and Hausdorff) sample space that satisfies the formal requirements for a measure, but whose values are positive operators acting on a complex…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Douglas Farenick , Michael J. Kozdron

In this paper we study a general family of multivariable Gaussian stochastic processes. Each process is prescribed by a fixed Borel measure $\sigma$ on $\mathbb R^n$. The case when $\sigma$ is assumed absolutely continuous with respect to…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen

In this article, numerical integration is formulated as evaluation of a matrix function of a matrix that is obtained as a projection of the multiplication operator on a finite-dimensional basis. The idea is to approximate the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Juha Sarmavuori , Simo Särkkä

In this paper we address the statistical problem of testing if a stationary process is Gaussian. The observation consists in a finite sample path of the process. Using a random projection technique introduced and studied in Cuesta-Albertos…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-11-19 Juan . A. Cuesta-Albertos , Fabrice Gamboa Alicia Nieto-Reyes

Consider estimation of the regression function based on a model with equidistant design and measurement errors generated from a fractional Gaussian noise process. In previous literature, this model has been heuristically linked to an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We study the weak convergence (in the high-frequency limit) of the parameter estimators of power spectrum coefficients associated with Gaussian, spherical and isotropic random fields. In particular, we introduce a Whittle-type approximate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Claudio Durastanti , Xiaohong Lan , Domenico Marinucci

In this paper we study algorithms to find a Gaussian approximation to a target measure defined on a Hilbert space of functions; the target measure itself is defined via its density with respect to a reference Gaussian measure. We employ the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-11 Frank J. Pinski , Gideon Simpson , Andrew M. Stuart , Hendrik Weber

We develop two new classes of space-time Gaussian process models by specifying covariance functions using what we call a half-spectral representation. The half-spectral representation of a covariance function, $K$, is a special case of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-07 Michael T. Horrell , Michael L. Stein

Operator learning focuses on approximating mappings $\mathcal{G}^\dagger:\mathcal{U} \rightarrow\mathcal{V}$ between infinite-dimensional spaces of functions, such as $u: \Omega_u\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ and $v:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Carlos Mora , Amin Yousefpour , Shirin Hosseinmardi , Houman Owhadi , Ramin Bostanabad

A consistent functional calculus approach to the spectral theorem for strongly commuting normal operators on Hilbert spaces is presented. In contrast to the common approaches using projection-valued measures or multiplication operators,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Markus Haase

Gaussian process modeling is a standard tool for building emulators for computer experiments, which are usually used to study deterministic functions, for example, a solution to a given system of partial differential equations. This work…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Wenjia Wang

Recently, Chernozhukov, Chetverikov, and Kato [Ann. Statist. 42 (2014) 1564--1597] developed a new Gaussian comparison inequality for approximating the suprema of empirical processes. This paper exploits this technique to devise sharp…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Fang Han , Sheng Xu , Wen-Xin Zhou

Gaussian processes and random fields have a long history, covering multiple approaches to representing spatial and spatio-temporal dependence structures, such as covariance functions, spectral representations, reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-18 Finn Lindgren , David Bolin , Håvard Rue