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We develop a new framework for estimating joint probability distributions using tensor product reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). Our framework accommodates a low-dimensional, normalized and positive model of a Radon--Nikodym…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-25 Damir Filipovic , Michael Multerer , Paul Schneider

The execution time of programs is a key element in many areas of computer science, mainly those where achieving good performance (e.g., scheduling in cloud computing) or a predictable one (e.g., meeting deadlines in embedded systems) is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha

We propose a framework for analyzing and comparing distributions, allowing us to design statistical tests to determine if two samples are drawn from different distributions. Our test statistic is the largest difference in expectations over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Arthur Gretton , Karsten Borgwardt , Malte J. Rasch , Bernhard Scholkopf , Alexander J. Smola

In order to develop provably safe human-in-the-loop systems, accurate and precise models of human behavior must be developed. In the case of intelligent vehicles, one can imagine the need for predicting driver behavior to develop minimally…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Roy Dong , S. Shankar Sastry , Ruzena Bajcsy

Building highly non-linear and non-parametric models is central to several state-of-the-art machine learning systems. Kernel methods form an important class of techniques that induce a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) for inferring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-16 Huan Song , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Prasanna Sattigeri , Andreas Spanias

Self-supervised representation learning techniques utilize large datasets without semantic annotations to learn meaningful, universal features that can be conveniently transferred to solve a wide variety of downstream supervised tasks. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Swetava Ganguli , C. V. Krishnakumar Iyer , Vipul Pandey

We develop algorithms with low regret for learning episodic Markov decision processes based on kernel approximation techniques. The algorithms are based on both the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) as well as Posterior or Thompson Sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Aditya Gopalan

In real-time trajectory planning for unmanned vehicles, on-board sensors, radars and other instruments are used to collect information on possible obstacles to be avoided and pathways to be followed. Since, in practice, observations of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-25 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Julian A. A. Collazos , Ronaldo Dias

We propose an (offline) multi-dimensional distributional reinforcement learning framework (KE-DRL) that leverages Hilbert space mappings to estimate the kernel mean embedding of the multi-dimensional value distribution under a proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Mehrdad Mohammadi , Qi Zheng , Ruoqing Zhu

This paper considers the design of nonlinear data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) using kernel functions. Compared with existing methods that use kernels to parameterize multi-step predictors for nonlinear DeePC, we adopt a novel,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Thomas de Jong , Siep Weiland , Mircea Lazar

In modern robotics, effectively computing optimal control policies under dynamically varying environments poses substantial challenges to the off-the-shelf parametric policy gradient methods, such as the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Apan Dastider , Mingjie Lin

This paper is concerned with functional learning by utilizing two-stage sampled distribution regression. We study a multi-penalty regularization algorithm for distribution regression under the framework of learning theory. The algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho

We propose a data-driven framework to learn interaction kernels in stochastic multi-agent systems. Our approach aims at identifying the functional form of nonlocal interaction and diffusion terms directly from trajectory data, without any a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Giacomo Albi , Alessandro Alla , Elisa Calzola

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) provides a simple and efficient way to solve a broad range of machine learning problems. Here, we focus on distribution regression (DR), involving two stages of sampling: Firstly, we regress from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-08 Nicole Mücke

We consider learning in decentralized heterogeneous networks: agents seek to minimize a convex functional that aggregates data across the network, while only having access to their local data streams. We focus on the case where agents seek…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Hrusikesha Pradhan , Amrit Singh Bedi , Alec Koppel , Ketan Rajawat

We present a novel variation of online kernel machines in which we exploit a consensus based optimization mechanism to guide the evolution of decision functions drawn from a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, which efficiently models the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-18 Raghu G. Raj

We propose a new decentralized robust kernel-based learning algorithm within the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) by utilizing a networked system that can be represented as a connected graph. The robust loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhan Yu , Zhongjie Shi , Ding-Xuan Zhou

We develop a rigorous framework for extending neural operators to handle out-of-distribution input functions. We leverage kernel approximation techniques and provide theory for characterizing the input-output function spaces in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Blaine Quackenbush , Paul J. Atzberger

In supervised learning using kernel methods, we often encounter a large-scale finite-sum minimization over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Large-scale finite-sum problems can be solved using efficient variants of Newton method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

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