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This paper provides a new theoretical lens for understanding the finite-sample performance of kernel-based specification tests, such as the Kernel Conditional Moment (KCM) test. Rather than introducing a fundamentally new test, we isolate…

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We provide an algorithm to approximate a finitely supported discrete measure $\mu$ by a measure $\nu_{N}$ corresponding to a set of $N$ points so that the total variation between $\mu$ and $\nu_N$ has an upper bound. As a consequence if…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Samantha Fairchild , Max Goering , Christian Weiß

We propose a new family of specification tests called kernel conditional moment (KCM) tests. Our tests are built on a novel representation of conditional moment restrictions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) called conditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Krikamol Muandet , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Jonas Kübler

This article presents a general framework for the transport of probability measures towards minimum divergence generative modeling and sampling using ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHSs),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-14 Biraj Pandey , Bamdad Hosseini , Pau Batlle , Houman Owhadi

In this paper, we consider a new weak norm, iterated weak norm in Lebesgue spaces with mixed norms. We study properties of the mixed weak norm and the iterated weak norm and present the relationship between the two weak norms. Even for the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Ting Chen , Wenchang Sun

Learning the true density in high-dimensional feature spaces is a well-known problem in machine learning. In this work, we consider generative autoencoders based on maximum-mean discrepancy (MMD) and provide theoretical insights. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Emanuele Sansone , Hafiz Tiomoko Ali , Sun Jiacheng

Comparing probability distributions is a core challenge across the natural, social, and computational sciences. Existing methods, such as Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), struggle in high-dimensional and non-compact domains. Here we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Logan S. McCarty

We consider the numbers of positive and negative eigenvalues of matrices of squared distances between randomly sampled i.i.d. points in a given metric measure space. These numbers and their limits, as the number of points grows, in fact…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Alexey Kroshnin , Tianyu Ma , Eugene Stepanov

Kernel interpolation is a fundamental technique for approximating functions from scattered data, with a well-understood convergence theory when interpolating elements of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Beyond this classical setting,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Toni Karvonen , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

We prove an analogue of the portmanteau theorem on weak convergence of probability measures allowing measures which are unbounded on an underlying metric space but finite on the complement of any Borel neighbourhood of a fixed element.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matyas Barczy , Gyula Pap

In this paper, weak convergences of marked empirical processes in $L^2(\mathbb{R},\nu)$ and their applications to statistical goodness-of-fit tests are provided, where $L^2(\mathbb{R},\nu)$ is the set of equivalence classes of the square…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Koji Tsukuda , Yoichi Nishiyama

We investigate a linear diffusion equation incorporating historical effects, characterised by a finite non-negative Borel measure on \((0, \mathfrak T]\). This approach accommodates both distributed memory and discrete delays within a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Hiroki Ishizaka

Let m be a probability measure supported on some infinite and compact set K in the complex plane and let p_n(z) be the corresponding degree n orthonormal polynomial with positive leading coefficient. Let v_n be the normalized zero counting…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Brian Simanek

We consider the variable selection problem for two-sample tests, aiming to select the most informative variables to determine whether two collections of samples follow the same distribution. To address this, we propose a novel framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-23 Jie Wang , Santanu S. Dey , Yao Xie

We show that minimum-norm interpolation in the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space corresponding to the Laplace kernel is not consistent if input dimension is constant. The lower bound holds for any choice of kernel bandwidth, even if selected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-31 Alexander Rakhlin , Xiyu Zhai

We investigate the power of weak measurements in the framework of quantum state discrimination. First, we define and analyze the notion of weak consecutive measurements. Our main result is a convergence theorem whereby we demonstrate when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Boaz Tamir , Eliahu Cohen , Avner Priel

We find probability error bounds for approximations of functions $f$ in a separable reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ with reproducing kernel $K$ on a base space $X$, firstly in terms of finite linear combinations of functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Ata Deniz Aydin , Aurelian Gheondea

Incompatible observables underlie pillars of quantum physics such as contextuality and entanglement. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a fundamental limitation on the measurement of the product of incompatible observables, a `joint'…

In this paper, we attempt to solve a long-lasting open question for non-positive definite (non-PD) kernels in machine learning community: can a given non-PD kernel be decomposed into the difference of two PD kernels (termed as positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Yingyi Chen , Johan A. K. Suykens

The main observation of this paper is that some sequential weak compactness arguments in Hilbert space theory can be replaced by Heine/Borel compactness arguments (for the strong topology). Even though the latter form of compactness fails…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Fernando Ferreira , Laurentiu Leustean , Pedro Pinto