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We study algorithms for approximating pairwise similarity matrices that arise in natural language processing. Generally, computing a similarity matrix for $n$ data points requires $\Omega(n^2)$ similarity computations. This quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Archan Ray , Nicholas Monath , Andrew McCallum , Cameron Musco

For the past 30 years or so, machine learning has stimulated a great deal of research in the study of approximation capabilities (expressive power) of a multitude of processes, such as approximation by shallow or deep neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hrushikesh Mhaskar

This paper presents a kernel-based framework for physics-informed nonlinear system identification. The key contribution is a structured methodology that extends kernel-based techniques to seamlessly embed partially known physics-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Cesare Donati , Martina Mammarella , Giuseppe C. Calafiore , Fabrizio Dabbene , Constantino Lagoa , Carlo Novara

We investigate the efficiency of k-means in terms of both statistical and computational requirements. More precisely, we study a Nystr\"om approach to kernel k-means. We analyze the statistical properties of the proposed method and show…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-28 Daniele Calandriello , Lorenzo Rosasco

Given (orthonormal) approximations $\tilde{U}$ and $\tilde{V}$ to the left and right subspaces spanned by the leading singular vectors of a matrix $A$, we discuss methods to approximate the leading singular values of $A$ and study their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Lorenzo Lazzarino , Hussam Al Daas , Yuji Nakatsukasa

This article gives a new insight of kernel-based (approximation) methods to solve the high-dimensional stochastic partial differential equations. We will combine the techniques of meshfree approximation and kriging interpolation to extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Qi Ye

The general perception is that kernel methods are not scalable, and neural nets are the methods of choice for nonlinear learning problems. Or have we simply not tried hard enough for kernel methods? Here we propose an approach that scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Bo Dai , Bo Xie , Niao He , Yingyu Liang , Anant Raj , Maria-Florina Balcan , Le Song

This is a tutorial and survey paper on kernels, kernel methods, and related fields. We start with reviewing the history of kernels in functional analysis and machine learning. Then, Mercer kernel, Hilbert and Banach spaces, Reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

The Nystr\"om method is a popular choice for finding a low-rank approximation to a symmetric positive semi-definite matrix. The method can fail when applied to symmetric indefinite matrices, for which the error can be unboundedly large. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Taejun Park , Yuji Nakatsukasa

We introduce kernel density machines (KDM), an agnostic kernel-based framework for learning the Radon-Nikodym derivative (density) between probability measures under minimal assumptions. KDM applies to general measurable spaces and avoids…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-27 Andrea Della Vecchia , Damir Filipovic , Paul Schneider

Recently, classical kernel methods have been extended by the introduction of suitable tensor kernels so to promote sparsity in the solution of the underlying regression problem. Indeed, they solve an lp-norm regularization problem, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Feliks Hibraj , Marcello Pelillo , Saverio Salzo , Massimiliano Pontil

We propose a novel framework for matching estimators for causal effect from observational data that is based on minimizing the dual norm of estimation error when expressed as an operator. We show that many popular matching estimators can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-01 Nathan Kallus

We extend our work for compression of currents and varifolds to a compression algorithm for the embedded normal cycles representation of shape, restricted to the constant normal kernel case, using the Nystrom approximation in Reproducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Allen Paul , Neill Campbell , Tony Shardlow

We are interested in a framework of online learning with kernels for low-dimensional but large-scale and potentially adversarial datasets. We study the computational and theoretical performance of online variations of kernel Ridge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-30 Rémi Jézéquel , Pierre Gaillard , Alessandro Rudi

Adaptive algorithms based on kernel structures have been a topic of significant research over the past few years. The main advantage is that they form a family of universal approximators, offering an elegant solution to problems with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-29 R. C. de Lamare , André Flores

Quantum kernel methods (QKMs) have emerged as a prominent framework for supervised quantum machine learning. Unlike variational quantum algorithms, which rely on gradient-based optimisation and may suffer from issues such as barren…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 John Tanner , Chon-Fai Kam , Jingbo Wang

Motivation: In a predictive modeling setting, if sufficient details of the system behavior are known, one can build and use a simulation for making predictions. When sufficient system details are not known, one typically turns to machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-14 Timo M. Deist , Andrew Patti , Zhaoqi Wang , David Krane , Taylor Sorenson , David Craft

This paper describes a new method for low rank kernel approximation called IKA. The main advantage of IKA is that it produces a function $\psi(x)$ defined as a linear combination of arbitrarily chosen functions. In contrast the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Matteo Ronchetti

Kernel power $k$-means (KPKM) leverages a family of means to mitigate local minima issues in kernel $k$-means. However, KPKM faces two key limitations: (1) the computational burden of the full kernel matrix restricts its use on extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yixi Chen , Weixuan Liang , Tianrui Liu , Jun-Jie Huang , Ao Li , Xueling Zhu , Xinwang Liu

Despite their success, kernel methods suffer from a massive computational cost in practice. In this paper, in lieu of commonly used kernel expansion with respect to $N$ inputs, we develop a novel optimal design maximizing the entropy among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Liang Ding , Rui Tuo , Shahin Shahrampour