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Recently, there has been an increased interest in the development of kernel methods for learning with sequential data. The signature kernel is a learning tool with potential to handle irregularly sampled, multivariate time series. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Cristopher Salvi , Thomas Cass , James Foster , Terry Lyons , Weixin Yang

Signature kernels have emerged as a powerful tool within kernel methods for sequential data. In the paper "The Signature Kernel is the solution of a Goursat PDE", the authors identify a kernel trick that demonstrates that, for continuously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Thomas Cass , Francesco Piatti , Jeffrey Pei

Random developments of a path into a matrix Lie group $G_N$ have recently been used to construct signature-based kernels on path space. Two examples include developments into GL$(N;\mathbb{R})$ and $U(N;\mathbb{C})$, the general linear and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Thomas Cass , William F. Turner

The expected signature kernel arises in statistical learning tasks as a similarity measure of probability measures on path space. Computing this kernel for known classes of stochastic processes is an important problem that, in particular,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Peter K. Friz , Paul P. Hager

We develop a rough-path framework for two-parameter rough differential equations on rectangular and simplicial domains, motivated by the signature kernel and Schwinger--Dyson kernel equations. The theory is formulated in spaces of jointly…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Thomas Cass , Dan Crisan , Andrea Iannucci , William F. Turner

The signature kernel is a positive definite kernel for sequential data. It inherits theoretical guarantees from stochastic analysis, has efficient algorithms for computation, and shows strong empirical performance. In this short survey…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Darrick Lee , Harald Oberhauser

We derive the optimal signed variable in general case kernels for the classical statistic density estimation, which are some generalization of the famous Epanechnikov's ones.

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-17 M. R. Formica , E. Ostrovsky , L. Sirota

Signature kernels, inner products of path signatures, underpin several machine learning algorithms for multivariate time series analysis. For bounded variation paths, signature kernels were recently shown to solve a Goursat PDE. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Maud Lemercier , Terry Lyons , Cristopher Salvi

This paper introduces a novel kernel density estimator (KDE) based on the generalised exponential (GE) distribution, designed specifically for positive continuous data. The proposed GE KDE offers a mathematically tractable form that avoids…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-18 Laura M. Craig , Wagner Barreto-Souza

This paper establishes a comprehensive concentration theory for truncated signatures of Gaussian rough paths. The signature of a path, defined as the collection of all iterated integrals, provides a complete description of its geometric…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Atef Lechiheb

For any compact connected Lie group $G$, we introduce a novel notion of average signature $\mathbb A(G)$ valued in its tensor Lie algebra, by taking the average value of the signature of the unique length-minimizing geodesics between all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Chong Liu , Shi Wang

A modified gamma kernel should not be automatically preferred to the standard gamma kernel, especially for univariate convex densities with a pole at the origin. In the multivariate case, multiple combined gamma kernels, defined as a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Sobom M. Somé , Célestin C. Kokonendji , Smail Adjabi , Naushad A. Mamode Khan , Said Beddek

The signature kernel is a recent state-of-the-art tool for analyzing high-dimensional sequential data, valued for its theoretical guarantees and strong empirical performance. In this paper, we present a novel method for efficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Matthew Tamayo-Rios , Alexander Schell , Rima Alaifari

Kernel mean embeddings -- integrals of a kernel with respect to a probability distribution -- are essential in Bayesian quadrature, but also widely used in other computational tools for numerical integration or for statistical inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 François-Xavier Briol , Alexandra Gessner , Toni Karvonen , Maren Mahsereci

High-dimensional data, where the dimension of the feature space is much larger than sample size, arise in a number of statistical applications. In this context, we construct the generalized multivariate sign transformation, defined as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-05 Subhabrata Majumdar , Snigdhansu Chatterjee

We elucidate physical aspects of path signatures by formulating randomised path developments within the framework of matrix models in quantum field theory. Using tools from physics, we introduce a new family of randomised path developments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Samuel Crew , Cristopher Salvi , William F. Turner , Thomas Cass , Antoine Jacquier

Paths of persistence diagrams provide a summary of the dynamic topological structure of a one-parameter family of metric spaces. These summaries can be used to study and characterize the dynamic shape of data such as swarming behavior in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Chad Giusti , Darrick Lee

The signature of a path, as a fundamental object in Rough path theory, serves as a generating function for non-commutative monomials on path space. It transforms the path into a grouplike element in the tensor algebra space, summarising the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Terry Lyons , Hao Ni , Jiajie Tao

We study the generalized Procrustes analysis (GPA), as a minimal formulation to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. We propose KernelGPA, a novel global registration technique to solve SLAM in the deformable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fang Bai , Kanzhi Wu , Adrien Bartoli

The signature transform, defined by the formal tensor series of global iterated path integrals, is a homomorphism between the path space and the tensor algebra that has been studied in geometry, control theory, number theory as well as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Horatio Boedihardjo , Xi Geng
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