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Random Fourier Features (RFF) demonstrate wellappreciated performance in kernel approximation for largescale situations but restrict kernels to be stationary and positive definite. And for non-stationary kernels, the corresponding RFF could…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-15 Qin Luo , Kun Fang , Jie Yang , Xiaolin Huang

We give two new global and algorithmic constructions of the reproducing kernel Hilbert space associated to a positive definite kernel. We further present ageneral positive definite kernel setting using bilinear forms, and we provide new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen

We present, among other things, a necessary and sufficient condition for the strict positive definiteness of an isotropic and positive definite kernel on the cartesian product of a circle and a higher dimensional sphere. The result…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Jean C. Guella , Valdir A. Menegatto , Ana P. Peron

Motivated by applications, we consider here new operator theoretic approaches to Conditional mean embeddings (CME). Our present results combine a spectral analysis-based optimization scheme with the use of kernels, stochastic processes, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song , James Tian

We propose a novel nonparametric regression framework subject to the positive definiteness constraint. It offers a highly modular approach for estimating covariance functions of stationary processes. Our method can impose positive…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-27 Myeongjong Kang

In this paper, a temporal nonuniform $L1$ type difference scheme is built up for the time fractional diffusion-wave equation with the help of the order reduction technique. The unconditional convergence of the nonuniform difference scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Hong Sun , Yanping Chen , Xuan Zhao

We construct a Convolution Quadrature (CQ) scheme for the quasilinear subdiffusion equation of order $\alpha$ and supply it with the fast and oblivious implementation. In particular, we find a condition for the CQ to be admissible and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Maria López-Fernández , Łukasz Płociniczak

We derive unconditionally stable and convergent variable-step BDF2 scheme for solving the MBE model with slope selection. The discrete orthogonal convolution kernels of the variable-step BDF2 method is commonly utilized recently for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Xuan Zhao , Haifeng Zhang , Hong Sun

We extend the classical deconvolution framework in Rn to the case with a pseudodifferential-like solution operator with a symbol depending on both the base and cotangent variable. Our framework enables deconvolution with spatially varying…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Mirza Karamehmedović , Pierre Maréchal , Martin Sæbye Carøe , Lara Baalbaki

We prove that the fixed point iteration of arbitrary positive concave mappings with nonempty fixed point set converges geometrically for any starting point. We also show that positivity is crucial for this result to hold, and the concept of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Tomasz Piotrowski , Renato L. G. Cavalcante

We introduce the concept of compressed convolution, a technique to convolve a given data set with a large number of non-orthogonal kernels. In typical applications our technique drastically reduces the effective number of computations. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-08 F. Elsner , B. D. Wandelt

We study representations of positive definite kernels $K$ in a general setting, but with view to applications to harmonic analysis, to metric geometry, and to realizations of certain stochastic processes. Our initial results are stated for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

This work proposed kernel selection approaches for probabilistic classifiers based on features produced by the convolutional encoder of a variational autoencoder. Particularly, the developed methodologies allow the selection of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Fábio Mendonça , Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa , Fernando Morgado-Dias , Antonio G. Ravelo-García

In this paper we show that the strictly positive definite matrix valued isotropic kernels in the circle and the real dot product kernels in Euclidean spaces are not well behaved with respect to its scalar valued projections. We generalize…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Jean Carlo Guella

We show that, for positive definite kernels, if specific forms of regularity (continuity, Sn-differentiability or holomorphy) hold locally on the diagonal, then they must hold globally on the whole domain of positive-definiteness. This…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Jorge Buescu , António Paixão , Claudemir Oliveira

The rapid and accurate evaluation of convolutions with singular kernels plays crucial roles in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. Building on the recently introduced Truncated Fourier Filtering method for smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Oscar Bruno , Jinghao Cao

We propose a framework for 2D shape analysis using positive definite kernels defined on Kendall's shape manifold. Different representations of 2D shapes are known to generate different nonlinear spaces. Due to the nonlinearity of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

We study distributional properties of a quadratic form of a stationary functional time series under mild moment conditions. As an important application, we obtain consistency rates of estimators of spectral density operators and prove joint…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Anne van Delft

For two continuous and isotropic positive definite kernels on the same compact two-point homogeneous space, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions in order that their product be strictly positive definite. We also provide a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Rafaela N. Bonfim , Jean C. Guella , Valdir A. Menegatto

In this paper we continue to investigate a certain class of Hankel-like positive definite kernels using their associated orthogonal polynomials. The main result of this paper is about the structure of this kind of kernels.

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