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This document reviews the definition of the kernel distance, providing a gentle introduction tailored to a reader with background in theoretical computer science, but limited exposure to technology more common to machine learning,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-11 Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Representations by linear integral operators on $L_p$ spaces over measure spaces are investigated for the polynomial covariance type commutation relations and more general two-sided generalizations of covariance commutation relations…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Domingos Djinja , Sergei Silvestrov , Alex Behakanira Tumwesigye

We study the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) in the context of critical transitions modelled by fast-slow stochastic dynamical systems. We establish a new link between the dynamical theory of critical transitions with the statistical aspects…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-30 Boumediene Hamzi , Christian Kuehn , Sameh Mohamed

The distribution closeness testing (DCT) assesses whether the distance between a distribution pair is at least $\epsilon$-far. Existing DCT methods mainly measure discrepancies between a distribution pair defined on discrete one-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zhijian Zhou , Liuhua Peng , Xunye Tian , Feng Liu

A set of molecular descriptors whose length is independent of molecular size is developed for machine learning models that target thermodynamic and electronic properties of molecules. These features are evaluated by monitoring performance…

Transfer operators such as the Perron--Frobenius or Koopman operator play an important role in the global analysis of complex dynamical systems. The eigenfunctions of these operators can be used to detect metastable sets, to project the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Stefan Klus , Ingmar Schuster , Krikamol Muandet

Spherical symmetry arguments are used to produce a general device to convert identities and inequalities for the $p$th absolute moments of real-valued random variables into the corresponding identities and inequalities for the $p$th moments…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Iosif Pinelis

We develop a multidimensional Stein methodology for non-degenerate self-decomposable random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ having finite first moment. Building on previous univariate findings, we solve an integro-partial differential Stein…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Benjamin Arras , Christian Houdré

We introduce a vector differential operator $\mathbf{P}$ and a vector boundary operator $\mathbf{B}$ to derive a reproducing kernel along with its associated Hilbert space which is shown to be embedded in a classical Sobolev space. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-28 Gregory E. Fasshauer , Qi Ye

We obtain for the Kempner series (i.e. harmonic series where certain digits are excluded from all denominators, for example the digit 9 in base 10) new representations as geometrically convergent series. The coefficients for these…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Jean-François Burnol

We construct a Wasserstein gradient flow of the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) and study its convergence properties. The MMD is an integral probability metric defined for a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), and serves as a metric on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-04 Michael Arbel , Anna Korba , Adil Salim , Arthur Gretton

In computational physics it is standard to approximate continuum systems with discretised representations. Here we consider a specific discretisation of the continuum complex Hilbert space of quantum mechanics - a discretisation where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 T. N. Palmer

The extension of the concept of $p-$summability for linear operators to the context of Lipschitz operators on metric spaces has been extensively studied in recent years. This research primarily uses the linearization of the metric space $M$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 R. Arnau , E. A. Sánchez Pérez , S. Sanjuan

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) gives a practical means of extracting dynamic information from data, in the form of spatial modes and their associated frequencies and growth/decay rates. DMD can be considered as a numerical approximation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Hao Zhang , Scott T. M. Dawson , Clarence W. Rowley , Eric A. Deem , Louis N. Cattafesta

The matrix Whittaker kernel has been introduced by A. Borodin in Part IV of the present series of papers. This kernel describes a point process -- a probability measure on a space of countable point configurations. The kernel is expressed…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grigori Olshanski

A truncated moment sequence (tms) of degree d is a vector indexed by monomials whose degree is at most d. Let K be a semialgebraic set.The truncated K-moment problem (TKMP) is: when does a tms y admit a positive Borel measure supported?…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-07 J. William Helton , Jiawang Nie

Despite the success of the popular kernelized support vector machines, they have two major limitations: they are restricted to Positive Semi-Definite (PSD) kernels, and their training complexity scales at least quadratically with the size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Omid Aghazadeh , Stefan Carlsson

We propose a kernel compression method for solving Distributed-Order (DO) Fractional Partial Differential Equations (DOFPDEs) at the cost of solving corresponding local-in-time PDEs. The key concepts are (1) discretization of the integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Jonas Beddrich , Barbara Wohlmuth

It is an established fact that a finite difference operator approximates a derivative with a fixed algebraic rate of convergence. Nevertheless, we exhibit a new finite difference operator and prove it has spectral accuracy. Its rate of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Andre Nachbin

Many applications, such as system identification, classification of time series, direct and inverse problems in partial differential equations, and uncertainty quantification lead to the question of approximation of a non-linear operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Hrushikesh Mhaskar