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Optimal experimental design seeks to determine the most informative allocation of experiments to infer an unknown statistical quantity. In this work, we investigate the optimal design of experiments for {\em estimation of linear functionals…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause

An important feature of kernel mean embeddings (KME) is that the rate of convergence of the empirical KME to the true distribution KME can be bounded independently of the dimension of the space, properties of the distribution and smoothness…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Geoffrey Wolfer , Pierre Alquier

Comparing conditional distributions is a fundamental challenge in statistics and machine learning, with applications across a wide range of domains. While proposed methods for measuring discrepancies using kernel embeddings of distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Peter Moskvichev , Siu Lun Chau , Dino Sejdinovic

Current methods for stochastic hyperparameter learning in Gaussian Processes (GPs) rely on approximations, such as computing biased stochastic gradients or using inducing points in stochastic variational inference. However, when using such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Neta Shoham , Haim Avron

The mathematical theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) provides powerful tools for minimum variance estimation (MVE) problems. Here, we extend the classical RKHS based analysis of MVE in several directions. We develop a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Alexander Jung , Sebastian Schmutzhard , Franz Hlawatsch

We study the problem of estimating linear response statistics under external perturbations using time series of unperturbed dynamics. Based on the fluctuation-dissipation theory, this problem is reformulated as an unsupervised learning task…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-09 He Zhang , John Harlim , Xiantao Li

Let $\pi$ be a positive continuous target density on $\mathbb{R}$. Let $P$ be the Metropolis-Hastings operator on the Lebesgue space $\mathbb{L}^2(\pi)$ corresponding to a proposal Markov kernel $Q$ on $\mathbb{R}$. When using the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Loïc Hervé , James Ledoux

We demonstrate an equivalence between reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embeddings of conditional distributions and vector-valued regressors. This connection introduces a natural regularized loss function which the RKHS embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Steffen Grünewälder , Guy Lever , Luca Baldassarre , Sam Patterson , Arthur Gretton , Massimilano Pontil

In $\mathbb R^d$, it is well-known that cumulants provide an alternative to moments that can achieve the same goals with numerous benefits such as lower variance estimators. In this paper we extend cumulants to reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Patric Bonnier , Harald Oberhauser , Zoltán Szabó

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 short technical report presents some learning theory results on vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) regression, where the input space is allowed to be non-compact and the output space is a (possibly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-17 Junhyunng Park , Krikamol Muandet

This paper defines geometric criteria which are then used to establish sufficient conditions for persistency of excitation with vector functions constructed from single hidden-layer neural networks with step or ReLU activation functions. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Tyler Lekang , Andrew Lamperski

We present estimates for the covering numbers of the unit ball of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHSs) of functions on $M^d$ a d-dimensional compact two-point homogeneous space. The RKHS is generated by a continuous zonal/isotropic…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Karina Gonzalez , Thaís Jordão

It is well-known that univariate cubic spline interpolation, if carried out on point sets with fill distance $h$, converges only like ${\cal O}(h^2)$ in $L_2[a,b]$ for functions in $W_2^2[a,b]$ if no additional assumptions are made. But…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Robert Schaback

In this article we consider a priori error and pointwise estimates for finite element approximations of solutions to semilinear elliptic boundary value problems in d>=2 space dimensions, with nonlinearities satisfying critical growth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Randolph E. Bank , Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

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 the problem of estimating parameters of a linear regression model. Using a hybrid systems framework, a hybrid algorithm is proposed allowing the estimate to converge to the exact value of the unknown parameters in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Adnane Saoud , Ryan S. Johnson , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

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…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Dimitrios Giannakis , Suddhasattwa Das , Joanna Slawinska

Kernel mean embedding (KME) is a powerful tool to analyze probability measures for data, where the measures are conventionally embedded into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). In this paper, we generalize KME to that of von…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-30 Yuka Hashimoto , Isao Ishikawa , Masahiro Ikeda , Fuyuta Komura , Yoshinobu Kawahara

Accurate energy demand forecasting is crucial for sustainable and resilient energy development. To meet the Net Zero Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) $4.5$ scenario in the DACH countries, increased renewable energy production,…

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