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We propose a new point of view for regularizing deep neural networks by using the norm of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Even though this norm cannot be computed, it admits upper and lower approximations leading to various…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-15 Alberto Bietti , Grégoire Mialon , Dexiong Chen , Julien Mairal

Approximate Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) offers the promise of more rapid sampling at the cost of more biased inference. Since standard MCMC diagnostics fail to detect these biases, researchers have developed computable Stein discrepancy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-16 Jackson Gorham , Lester Mackey

The existing research on spectral algorithms, applied within a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), has primarily focused on general kernel functions, often neglecting the inherent structure of the input feature space. Our paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Weichun Xia , Lei Shi

In this work we investigate the relationship between kernel regularity and algorithmic performance in the bandit optimization of RKHS functions. While reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods traditionally rely on global kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-08 Madison Lee , Tara Javidi

We propose a new decentralized robust kernel-based learning algorithm within the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) by utilizing a networked system that can be represented as a connected graph. The robust loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhan Yu , Zhongjie Shi , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Despite their immense promise in performing a variety of learning tasks, a theoretical understanding of the limitations of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has so far eluded practitioners. This is partly due to the inability to determine the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Saad Qadeer , Andrew Engel , Amanda Howard , Adam Tsou , Max Vargas , Panos Stinis , Tony Chiang

The family of Mat\'ern kernels are often used in spatial statistics, function approximation and Gaussian process methods in machine learning. One reason for their popularity is the presence of a smoothness parameter that controls, for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Moritz Korte-Stapff , Toni Karvonen , Eric Moulines

Kernel interpolation is a fundamental technique for approximating functions from scattered data, with a well-understood convergence theory when interpolating elements of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Beyond this classical setting,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Toni Karvonen , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

Kernel density estimation (KDE) is a popular statistical technique for estimating the underlying density distribution with minimal assumptions. Although they can be shown to achieve asymptotic estimation optimality for any input…

Computation · Statistics 2011-02-15 Dongryeol Lee , Alexander G. Gray , Andrew W. Moore

Kernel methods are versatile tools for function approximation and surrogate modeling. In particular, greedy techniques offer computational efficiency and reliability through inherent sparsity and provable convergence. Inspired by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Marian Klink , Tobias Ehring , Robin Herkert , Robin Lautenschlager , Dominik Göddeke , Bernard Haasdonk

This paper generalizes recent advances on quadratic manifold (QM) dimensionality reduction by developing kernel methods-based nonlinear-augmentation dimensionality reduction. QMs, and more generally feature map-based nonlinear corrections,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alejandro N. Diaz , Jacob T. Needels , Irina K. Tezaur , Patrick J. Blonigan

We introduce a novel boosting algorithm called `KTBoost' which combines kernel boosting and tree boosting. In each boosting iteration, the algorithm adds either a regression tree or reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fabio Sigrist

To speed up Gaussian process inference, a number of fast kernel matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) approximation algorithms have been proposed over the years. In this paper, we establish an exact fast kernel MVM algorithm based on exact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-05 Nicolas Langrené , Xavier Warin , Pierre Gruet

Gaussian process regression generally does not scale to beyond a few thousands data points without applying some sort of kernel approximation method. Most approximations focus on the high eigenvalue part of the spectrum of the kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-31 Yi Ding , Risi Kondor , Jonathan Eskreis-Winkler

We revisit Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) from a function-space perspective. Our analysis decouples policy evaluation and improvement in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS): (i) A kernelized temporal-difference (TD) critic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lu Zou , Wendi Ren , Weizhong Zhang , Liang Ding , Shuang Li

Stein thinning is a promising algorithm proposed by (Riabiz et al., 2022) for post-processing outputs of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The main principle is to greedily minimize the kernelized Stein discrepancy (KSD), which only requires…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Clément Bénard , Brian Staber , Sébastien Da Veiga

We study approaches for compressing the empirical measure in the context of finite dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). In this context, the empirical measure is contained within a natural convex set and can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-29 Steffen Grünewälder

We focus on kernel methods for set-valued inputs and their application to Bayesian set optimization, notably combinatorial optimization. We investigate two classes of set kernels that both rely on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-11 Poompol Buathong , David Ginsbourger , Tipaluck Krityakierne

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

A mean function in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), or a kernel mean, is central to kernel methods in that it is used by many classical algorithms such as kernel principal component analysis, and it also forms the core inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-26 Krikamol Muandet , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu , Arthur Gretton , Bernhard Schölkopf