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Randomized algorithms exploit stochasticity to reduce computational complexity. One important example is random feature regression (RFR) that accelerates Gaussian process regression (GPR). RFR approximates an unknown function with a random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Nicholas H. Nelsen , Maya Mutic

Randomized Hadamard Transforms (RHTs) have emerged as a computationally efficient alternative to the use of dense unstructured random matrices across a range of domains in computer science and machine learning. For several applications such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Jelani Nelson

Random Fourier features is one of the most popular techniques for scaling up kernel methods, such as kernel ridge regression. However, despite impressive empirical results, the statistical properties of random Fourier features are still not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Haim Avron , Michael Kapralov , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh

We present an intriguing discovery related to Random Fourier Features: in Gaussian kernel approximation, replacing the random Gaussian matrix by a properly scaled random orthogonal matrix significantly decreases kernel approximation error.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Felix X. Yu , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Krzysztof Choromanski , Daniel Holtmann-Rice , Sanjiv Kumar

In large-scale regression problems, random Fourier features (RFFs) have significantly enhanced the computational scalability and flexibility of Gaussian processes (GPs) by defining kernels through their spectral density, from which a finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Houston Warren , Rafael Oliveira , Fabio Ramos

Devoted to multi-task learning and structured output learning, operator-valued kernels provide a flexible tool to build vector-valued functions in the context of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. To scale up these methods, we extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Romain Brault , Florence d'Alché-Buc , Markus Heinonen

This paper proposes a novel graph-based regularized regression estimator - the hierarchical feature regression (HFR) -, which mobilizes insights from the domains of machine learning and graph theory to estimate robust parameters for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-11 Johann Pfitzinger

Random features are a powerful technique for rewriting positive-definite kernels as linear products. They bring linear tools to bear in important nonlinear domains like KNNs and attention. Unfortunately, practical implementations require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Luke Sernau , Silvano Bonacina , Rif A. Saurous

In this work, we investigate the generalization properties of random feature methods. Our analysis extends prior results for Tikhonov regularization to a broad class of spectral regularization techniques and further generalizes the setting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

Random features have been introduced to scale up kernel methods via randomization techniques. In particular, random Fourier features and orthogonal random features were used to approximate the popular Gaussian kernel. Random Fourier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Nizar Demni , Hachem Kadri

Random feature attention (RFA) adopts random fourier feature (RFF) methods to approximate the softmax function, resulting in a linear time and space attention mechanism that enables the construction of an efficient Transformer. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yuhan Guo , Lizhong Ding , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

The method of "random Fourier features (RFF)" has become a popular tool for approximating the "radial basis function (RBF)" kernel. The variance of RFF is actually large. Interestingly, the variance can be substantially reduced by a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Ping Li

We propose a random feature model for approximating high-dimensional sparse additive functions called the hard-ridge random feature expansion method (HARFE). This method utilizes a hard-thresholding pursuit-based algorithm applied to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-10 Esha Saha , Hayden Schaeffer , Giang Tran

Transformers excel across domains, yet their quadratic attention complexity poses a barrier to scaling. Random-feature attention, as in Performers, can reduce this cost to linear in the sequence length by approximating the softmax kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Amirhossein Farzam , Hossein Mobahi , Nolan Andrew Miller , Luke Sernau

The random feature (RF) approach is a well-established and efficient tool for scalable kernel methods, but existing literature has primarily focused on kernel ridge regression with random features (KRR-RF), which has limitations in handling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-18 Caixing Wang , Xingdong Feng

Modeling non-stationary processes, where statistical properties vary across the input domain, is a critical challenge in machine learning; yet most scalable methods rely on a simplifying assumption of stationarity. This forces a difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sawan Kumar , Souvik Chakraborty

We introduce in this paper the mechanism of graph random features (GRFs). GRFs can be used to construct unbiased randomized estimators of several important kernels defined on graphs' nodes, in particular the regularized Laplacian kernel. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Krzysztof Choromanski

Motivated by the need for efficient estimation of conditional expectations, we consider a least-squares function approximation problem with heavily polluted data. Existing methods that are effective in the small-noise regime are suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Ben Adcock , Bernhard Hientzsch , Akil Narayan , Yiming Xu

The method of random projection (RP) is the standard technique in machine learning and many other areas, for dimensionality reduction, approximate near neighbor search, compressed sensing, etc. Basically, RP provides a simple and effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-26 Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li

We propose a novel random walk-based algorithm for unbiased estimation of arbitrary functions of a weighted adjacency matrix, coined universal graph random features (u-GRFs). This includes many of the most popular examples of kernels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-27 Isaac Reid , Krzysztof Choromanski , Eli Berger , Adrian Weller