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This manuscript gives a theoretical framework for a new Hilbert space of functions, the so called occupation kernel Hilbert space (OKHS), that operate on collections of signals rather than real or complex numbers. To support this new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Joel A. Rosenfeld , Benjamin Russo , Xiuying Li

This short technical report presents some learning theory results on vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) regression, where the input space is allowed to be non-compact and the output space is a (possibly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-17 Junhyunng Park , Krikamol Muandet

This paper develops an interpretable, non-intrusive reduced-order modeling technique using regularized kernel interpolation. Existing non-intrusive approaches approximate the dynamics of a reduced-order model (ROM) by solving a data-driven…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Alejandro N Diaz , Shane A McQuarrie , John T Tencer , Patrick J Blonigan

We develop a mathematical framework to address a broad class of metric and preference learning problems within a Hilbert space. We obtain a novel representer theorem for the simultaneous task of metric and preference learning. Our key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Peyman Morteza

The linear quadratic regulator problem is central in optimal control and was investigated since the very beginning of control theory. Nevertheless, when it includes affine state constraints, it remains very challenging from the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski

We present an empirical, gradient-based method for solving data-driven stochastic optimal control problems using the theory of kernel embeddings of distributions. By embedding the integral operator of a stochastic kernel in a reproducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Adam J. Thorpe , Jake A. Gonzales , Meeko M. K. Oishi

Mean-field control problems have received continuous interest over the last decade. Despite being more intricate than in classical optimal control, the linear-quadratic setting can still be tackled through Riccati equations. Remarkably, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alain Bensoussan

We present an embedding of stochastic optimal control problems, of the so called path integral form, into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Using consistent, sample based estimates of the embedding leads to a model free, non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Konrad Rawlik , Marc Toussaint , Sethu Vijayakumar

We develop a stochastic approximation framework for learning nonlinear operators between infinite-dimensional spaces utilizing general Mercer operator-valued kernels. Our framework encompasses two key classes: (i) compact kernels, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Jia-Qi Yang , Lei Shi

We present a data-driven method for computing approximate forward reachable sets using separating kernels in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We frame the problem as a support estimation problem, and learn a classifier of the support as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Adam J. Thorpe , Kendric R. Ortiz , Meeko M. K. Oishi

We develop a comprehensive framework for spatio-temporal prediction of time-varying vector fields using operator-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (OV RKHS). By integrating Sobolev regularity with Koopman operator theory, we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mahishanka Withanachchi

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 this work, we develop and study an empirical projection operator scheme for solving nonparametric regression problems. This scheme is based on an approximate projection of the regression function over a suitable reproducing kernel…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Bilel Bousselmi , Jean-François Dupuy , Abderrazek Karoui

We introduce a complex-valued counterpart of the representer theorem in machine learning. We study several learning and minimization problems in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs), with the aim of identifying appropriate input-output…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Natanael Alpay , Antonino De Martino , Kamal Diki

Data-driven control algorithms use observations of system dynamics to construct an implicit model for the purpose of control. However, in practice, data-driven techniques often require excessive sample sizes, which may be infeasible in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Adam J. Thorpe , Cyrus Neary , Franck Djeumou , Meeko M. K. Oishi , Ufuk Topcu

In a general context of positive definite kernels $k$, we develop tools and algorithms for sampling in reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$ (RKHS). With reference to these RKHSs, our results allow inference from samples; more…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

Many machine learning approaches for decision making, such as reinforcement learning, rely on simulators or predictive models to forecast the time-evolution of quantities of interest, e.g., the state of an agent or the reward of a policy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Petar Bevanda , Max Beier , Armin Lederer , Stefan Sosnowski , Eyke Hüllermeier , Sandra Hirche

We study kernel functions, and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces $\mathscr{H}$ over infinite, discrete and countable sets $V$. Numerical analysis builds discrete models (e.g., finite element) for the purpose of finding…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

It is often said that control and estimation problems are in duality. Recently, in (Aubin-Frankowski,2021), we found new reproducing kernels in Linear-Quadratic optimal control by focusing on the Hilbert space of controlled trajectories,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alain Bensoussan

Optimal experimental design seeks to determine the most informative allocation of experiments to infer an unknown statistical quantity. In this work, we investigate the optimal design of experiments for {\em estimation of linear functionals…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause