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Kernel methods form a powerful, versatile, and theoretically-grounded unifying framework to solve nonlinear problems in signal processing and machine learning. The standard approach relies on the kernel trick to perform pairwise evaluations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Kan Li , Jose C. Principe

We present a new paradigm for creating random features to approximate bi-variate functions (in particular, kernels) defined on general manifolds. This new mechanism of Manifold Random Features (MRFs) leverages discretization of the manifold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ananya Parashar , Derek Long , Dwaipayan Saha , Krzysztof Choromanski

Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xinyue Yu , Hayden Schaeffer

In this paper, we propose a fast surrogate leverage weighted sampling strategy to generate refined random Fourier features for kernel approximation. Compared to the current state-of-the-art method that uses the leverage weighted scheme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Yudong Chen , Jie Yang , Johan A. K. Suykens

Random features is one of the most popular techniques to speed up kernel methods in large-scale problems. Related works have been recognized by the NeurIPS Test-of-Time award in 2017 and the ICML Best Paper Finalist in 2019. The body of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-13 Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Yudong Chen , Johan A. K. Suykens

We propose the use of low bit-depth Sigma-Delta and distributed noise-shaping methods for quantizing the Random Fourier features (RFFs) associated with shift-invariant kernels. We prove that our quantized RFFs -- even in the case of $1$-bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jinjie Zhang , Harish Kannan , Alexander Cloninger , Rayan Saab

We propose a new method for input variable selection in nonlinear regression. The method is embedded into a kernel regression machine that can model general nonlinear functions, not being a priori limited to additive models. This is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Magda Gregorová , Jason Ramapuram , Alexandros Kalousis , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Slow kinetic processes of molecular systems can be analyzed by computing dominant eigenpairs of the Koopman operator or its generator. In this context, the Variational Approach to Markov Processes (VAMP) provides a rigorous way of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Feliks Nüske , Stefan Klus

Invariance to nuisance transformations is one of the desirable properties of effective representations. We consider transformations that form a \emph{group} and propose an approach based on kernel methods to derive local group invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Anant Raj , Abhishek Kumar , Youssef Mroueh , P. Thomas Fletcher , Bernhard Schölkopf

Rahimi and Recht (2007) introduced the idea of decomposing positive definite shift-invariant kernels by randomly sampling from their spectral distribution for machine learning applications. This famous technique, known as Random Fourier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nicolas Langrené , Xavier Warin , Pierre Gruet

Kernel methods have recently attracted resurgent interest, showing performance competitive with deep neural networks in tasks such as speech recognition. The random Fourier features map is a technique commonly used to scale up kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Tri Dao , Christopher De Sa , Christopher Ré

Random feature approximation is arguably one of the most widely used techniques for kernel methods in large-scale learning algorithms. In this work, we analyze the generalization properties of random feature methods, extending previous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

Kernel method has been developed as one of the standard approaches for nonlinear learning, which however, does not scale to large data set due to its quadratic complexity in the number of samples. A number of kernel approximation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Lingfei Wu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jie Chen , Rui Yan

Random Fourier features (RFFs) provide a promising way for kernel learning in a spectral case. Current RFFs-based kernel learning methods usually work in a two-stage way. In the first-stage process, learning the optimal feature map is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kun Fang , Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

We propose a principled method for kernel learning, which relies on a Fourier-analytic characterization of translation-invariant or rotation-invariant kernels. Our method produces a sequence of feature maps, iteratively refining the SVM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Brian Bullins , Cyril Zhang , Yi Zhang

In this work, we introduce kernels with random Fourier features in the meta-learning framework to leverage their strong few-shot learning ability. We propose meta variational random features (MetaVRF) to learn adaptive kernels for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Xiantong Zhen , Haoliang Sun , Yingjun Du , Jun Xu , Yilong Yin , Ling Shao , Cees Snoek

Kernel methods offer the flexibility to learn complex relationships in modern, large data sets while enjoying strong theoretical guarantees on quality. Unfortunately, these methods typically require cubic running time in the data set size,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-01 Raj Agrawal , Trevor Campbell , Jonathan H. Huggins , Tamara Broderick

We consider the kernel partial least squares algorithm for non-parametric regression with stationary dependent data. Probabilistic convergence rates of the kernel partial least squares estimator to the true regression function are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Marco Singer , Tatyana Krivobokova , Axel Munk

Random features are a powerful technique for rewriting positive-definite kernels as linear products. They bring linear tools to bear in important nonlinear domains like KNNs and attention. Unfortunately, practical implementations require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Luke Sernau , Silvano Bonacina , Rif A. Saurous

We propose the adaptive random Fourier features Gaussian kernel LMS (ARFF-GKLMS). Like most kernel adaptive filters based on stochastic gradient descent, this algorithm uses a preset number of random Fourier features to save computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Wei Gao , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard , Wentao Shi , Qunfei Zhang