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Gaussian processes are probabilistic models that are commonly used as functional priors in machine learning. Due to their probabilistic nature, they can be used to capture the prior information on the statistics of noise, smoothness of the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-02-02 Ahmad Farooq , Cristian A. Galvis-Florez , Simo Särkkä

Gaussian processes are powerful, yet analytically tractable models for supervised learning. A Gaussian process is characterized by a mean function and a covariance function (kernel), which are determined by a model selection criterion. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-05 Benjamin Fischer , Nico Gorbach , Stefan Bauer , Yatao Bian , Joachim M. Buhmann

We propose a scalable inference algorithm for Bayes posteriors defined on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Given a likelihood function and a Gaussian random element representing the prior, the corresponding Bayes posterior measure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-26 Veit Wild , James Wu , Dino Sejdinovic , Jeremias Knoblauch

Kernel-based methods offer a powerful and flexible mathematical framework for addressing histopolation problems. In histopolation, the available input data does not consist of pointwise function samples but of averages taken over intervals…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ludovico Bruni Bruno , Giacomo Cappellazzo , Wolfgang Erb , Mohammad Karimnejad Esfahani

Given a set of vectors (the data) in a Hilbert space H, we prove the existence of an optimal collection of subspaces minimizing the sum of the square of the distances between each vector and its closest subspace in the collection. This…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-02-07 Akram Aldroubi , Carlos Cabrelli , Ursula Molter

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

Error estimates for kernel interpolation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) usually assume quite restrictive properties on the shape of the domain, especially in the case of infinitely smooth kernels like the popular Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin , Bernard Haasdonk

Models of physics beyond the Standard Model often contain a large number of parameters. These form a high-dimensional space that is computationally intractable to fully explore. Experimental constraints project onto a subspace of viable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Jacob Hollingsworth , Michael Ratz , Philip Tanedo , Daniel Whiteson

In this paper, we introduce a new distribution regression model for probability distributions. This model is based on a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) regression framework, where universal kernels are built using Wasserstein…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Thi Thien Trang Bui , J-M Loubes , Laurent Risser , Patricia Balaresque

The support vector machine (SVM) is a popular machine learning classification method which produces a nonlinear decision boundary in a feature space by constructing linear boundaries in a transformed Hilbert space. It is well known that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Rupak Chatterjee , Ting Yu

We prove that kernel covariance embeddings lead to information-theoretically perfect separation of distinct continuous probability distributions. In statistical terms, we establish that testing for the \emph{equality} of two non-atomic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Leonardo V. Santoro , Kartik G. Waghmare , Victor M. Panaretos

We propose a nonlinear function-on-function regression model where both the covariate and the response are random functions. The nonlinear regression is carried out in two steps: we first construct Hilbert spaces to accommodate the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-19 Peijun Sang , Bing Li

Kernel methods, being supported by a well-developed theory and coming with efficient algorithms, are among the most popular and successful machine learning techniques. From a mathematical point of view, these methods rest on the concept of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-20 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Michael Rom , Chiara Segala , Sebastian Trimpe

In this paper, an adaptive non-parametric method is proposed to estimate the scalar-valued nonlinear function that appears in uncertain systems governed by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). By employing an infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Jia Guo , Sai Tej Paruchuri , Andrew J. Kurdila

Modern datasets across many disciplines increasingly consist of time-evolving, potentially infinite-dimensional random objects, such as dynamic functional data, which are naturally modeled in Hilbert spaces. In these settings,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Daniel López-Montero , Antonio Álvarez-López , Marcos Matabuena

Over the last decade, kernel methods for nonlinear processing have successfully been used in the machine learning community. The primary mathematical tool employed in these methods is the notion of the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Pantelis Bouboulis , Sergios Theodoridis

In this paper physical multi-scale processes governed by their own principles for evolution or equilibrium on each scale are coupled by matching the stored and dissipated energy, in line with the Hill-Mandel principle. In our view the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-09 M. S. Sarfaraz , B. Rosic , H. G. Matthies , A. Ibrahimbegovic

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces are uniquely characterized by their kernel, but reproducing kernel Banach spaces (RKBS) are not. However, a characterization of which RKBS admit a given kernel as reproducing kernel is lacking. This work…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Tjeerd Jan Heeringa

In this work we consider the problem of numerical integration, i.e., approximating integrals with respect to a target probability measure using only pointwise evaluations of the integrand. We focus on the setting in which the target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-17 Antoine Chatalic , Nicolas Schreuder , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco

This work studies the convergence and finite sample approximations of entropic regularized Wasserstein distances in the Hilbert space setting. Our first main result is that for Gaussian measures on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-16 Minh Ha Quang