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Kernel ridge regression (KRR) and Gaussian processes (GPs) are fundamental tools in statistics and machine learning, with recent applications to highly over-parameterized deep neural networks. The ability of these tools to learn a target…

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We consider the problem of learning an unknown function $f_{\star}$ on the $d$-dimensional sphere with respect to the square loss, given i.i.d. samples $\{(y_i,{\boldsymbol x}_i)\}_{i\le n}$ where ${\boldsymbol x}_i$ is a feature vector…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Behrooz Ghorbani , Song Mei , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Andrea Montanari

We derive new bounds for the condition number of kernel matrices, which we then use to enhance existing non-asymptotic test error bounds for kernel ridgeless regression (KRR) in the over-parameterized regime for a fixed input dimension. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Tin Sum Cheng , Aurelien Lucchi , Anastasis Kratsios , David Belius

Random Fourier Features (RFF) is among the most popular and broadly applicable approaches for scaling up kernel methods. In essence, RFF allows the user to avoid costly computations on a large kernel matrix via a fast randomized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Junwen Yao , N. Benjamin Erichson , Miles E. Lopes

The saturation effects, which originally refer to the fact that kernel ridge regression (KRR) fails to achieve the information-theoretical lower bound when the regression function is over-smooth, have been observed for almost 20 years and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Weihao Lu , Haobo Zhang , Yicheng Li , Qian Lin

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a foundational tool in machine learning, with recent work emphasizing its connections to neural networks. However, existing theory primarily addresses the i.i.d. setting, while real-world data often exhibits…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Dechen Zhang , Zhenmei Shi , Yi Zhang , Yingyu Liang , Difan Zou

Recent studies have reported $\textit{saturation effects}$ and $\textit{multiple descent behavior}$ in large dimensional kernel ridge regression (KRR). However, these findings are predominantly derived under restrictive settings, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Yang Zhou , Yicheng Li , Yuqian Cheng , Qian Lin

This paper addresses the covariate shift problem in the context of nonparametric regression within reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). Covariate shift arises in supervised learning when the input distributions of the training and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-21 Andrea Della Vecchia , Arnaud Mavakala Watusadisi , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a standard method for performing non-parametric regression over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Given $n$ samples, the time and space complexity of computing the KRR estimate scale as $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-27 Yun Yang , Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

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

The use of kernels for nonlinear prediction is widespread in machine learning. They have been popularized in support vector machines and used in kernel ridge regression, amongst others. Kernel methods share three aspects. First, instead of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-25 Patrick J. F. Groenen , Michael Greenacre

Kernel ridge regression is well-known to achieve minimax optimal rates in low-dimensional settings. However, its behavior in high dimensions is much less understood. Recent work establishes consistency for kernel regression under certain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Konstantin Donhauser , Mingqi Wu , Fanny Yang

Accurate approximations to density functionals have recently been obtained via machine learning (ML). By applying ML to a simple function of one variable without any random sampling, we extract the qualitative dependence of errors on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 Kevin Vu , John Snyder , Li Li , Matthias Rupp , Brandon F. Chen , Tarek Khelif , Klaus-Robert Müller , Kieron Burke

Sample reweighting is one of the most widely used methods for correcting the error of least squares learning algorithms in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), that is caused by future data distributions that are different from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Duc Hoan Nguyen , Sergei V. Pereverzyev , Werner Zellinger

In this work, we investigate high-dimensional kernel ridge regression (KRR) on i.i.d. Gaussian data with anisotropic power-law covariance. This setting differs fundamentally from the classical source & capacity conditions for KRR, where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-07 Arie Wortsman , Bruno Loureiro

Covariate shift occurs prevalently in practice, where the input distributions of the source and target data are substantially different. Despite its practical importance in various learning problems, most of the existing methods only focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Xingdong Feng , Xin He , Caixing Wang , Chao Wang , Jingnan Zhang

We propose a framework for hypothesis testing on conditional probability distributions, which we then use to construct statistical tests of functionals of conditional distributions. These tests identify the inputs where the functionals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Pierre-François Massiani , Christian Fiedler , Lukas Haverbeck , Friedrich Solowjow , Sebastian Trimpe

We study the cost of overfitting in noisy kernel ridge regression (KRR), which we define as the ratio between the test error of the interpolating ridgeless model and the test error of the optimally-tuned model. We take an "agnostic" view in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-25 Lijia Zhou , James B. Simon , Gal Vardi , Nathan Srebro

Random feature ridge regression is often analyzed in the high-dimensional regime under the homogeneous sampling model $x_i=\Sigma^{1/2}x_i'$, where the vectors $x_i'$ have iid entries and the same covariance matrix $\Sigma$ is shared by all…

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