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We develop algorithms with low regret for learning episodic Markov decision processes based on kernel approximation techniques. The algorithms are based on both the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) as well as Posterior or Thompson Sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Aditya Gopalan

Kernel logistic regression (KLR) is a widely used supervised learning method for binary and multi-class classification, which provides estimates of the conditional probabilities of class membership for the data points. Unlike other kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Antonio Consolo , Andrea Manno , Edoardo Amaldi

This paper introduces a new and effective algorithm for learning kernels in a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) setting. Although, we consider a MTL scenario here, our approach can be easily applied to standard single task learning, as well. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Niloofar Yousefi , Cong Li , Mansooreh Mollaghasemi , Georgios Anagnostopoulos , Michael Georgiopoulos

The paper introduces a new efficient nonlinear one-class classifier formulated as the Rayleigh quotient criterion optimisation. The method, operating in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, minimises the scatter of target distribution along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Shervin Rahimzadeh Arashloo , Josef Kittler

In this paper, we develop a generalized theory of convolutional signal processing and neural networks for Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS). Leveraging the theory of algebraic signal processing (ASP), we show that any RKHS allows the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Alejandro Parada-Mayorga , Leopoldo Agorio , Alejandro Ribeiro , Juan Bazerque

In this paper, we propose a data-adaptive non-parametric kernel learning framework in margin based kernel methods. In model formulation, given an initial kernel matrix, a data-adaptive matrix with two constraints is imposed in an entry-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Chen Gong , Jie Yang , Li Li

Regularized empirical risk minimization using kernels and their corresponding reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) plays an important role in machine learning. However, the actually used kernel often depends on one or on a few…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-25 Andreas Christmann , Daohong Xiang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

In many problems of supervised tensor learning (STL), real world data such as face images or MRI scans are naturally represented as matrices, which are also called as second order tensors. Most existing classifiers based on tensor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-20 Yunfei Ye

The distribution regression problem encompasses many important statistics and machine learning tasks, and arises in a large range of applications. Among various existing approaches to tackle this problem, kernel methods have become a method…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 François Bachoc , Louis Béthune , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

Nonlocal operators with integral kernels have become a popular tool for designing solution maps between function spaces, due to their efficiency in representing long-range dependence and the attractive feature of being resolution-invariant.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-24 Fei Lu , Qingci An , Yue Yu

We propose and analyze a novel framework for learning sparse representations, based on two statistical techniques: kernel smoothing and marginal regression. The proposed approach provides a flexible framework for incorporating feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-10-04 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Kai Yu , Guy Lebanon

Estimating the dissipativity of nonlinear systems from empirical data is useful for the analysis and control of nonlinear systems, especially when an accurate model is unavailable. Based on a Koopman operator model of the nonlinear system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Xiuzhen Ye , Wentao Tang

A recent series of theoretical works showed that the dynamics of neural networks with a certain initialisation are well-captured by kernel methods. Concurrent empirical work demonstrated that kernel methods can come close to the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Maria Refinetti , Sebastian Goldt , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

We propose a new, nonparametric approach to estimating the value function in reinforcement learning. This approach makes use of a recently developed representation of conditional distributions as functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Steffen Grünewälder , Luca Baldassarre , Massimiliano Pontil , Arthur Gretton , Guy Lever

In this paper we present new algorithms for training reduced-size nonlinear representations in the Kernel Dictionary Learning (KDL) problem. Standard KDL has the drawback of a large size of the kernel matrix when the data set is large.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Denis C. Ilie-Ablachim , Bogdan Dumitrescu

A normative approach called Similarity Matching was recently introduced for deriving and understanding the algorithmic basis of neural computation focused on unsupervised problems. It involves deriving algorithms from computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yanis Bahroun , Dmitri B. Chklovskii , Anirvan M. Sengupta

We study recursive regularized learning algorithms in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) with non-stationary online data streams. We introduce the concept of random Tikhonov regularization path and decompose the tracking error of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiwei Zhang , Yan Chen , Tao Li

With the advent of kernel methods, automating the task of specifying a suitable kernel has become increasingly important. In this context, the Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem of finding a combination of pre-specified base kernels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Abhishek Kumar , Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Hal Daume

In statistical learning, identifying underlying structures of true target functions based on observed data plays a crucial role to facilitate subsequent modeling and analysis. Unlike most of those existing methods that focus on some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-04 Xin He , Yeheng Ge , Xingdong Feng

In order to fully utilize "big data", it is often required to use "big models". Such models tend to grow with the complexity and size of the training data, and do not make strong parametric assumptions upfront on the nature of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-17 Vikas Sindhwani , Haim Avron