English
Related papers

Related papers: Adaptive joint distribution learning

200 papers

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

This monograph develops a unified, application-driven framework for kernel methods grounded in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) and optimal transport (OT). Part I lays the theoretical and numerical foundations on positive-definite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Philippe G. LeFloch , Jean-Marc Mercier , Shohruh Miryusupov

We propose a novel approach for pixel classification in hyperspectral images, leveraging on both the spatial and spectral information in the data. The introduced method relies on a recently proposed framework for learning on distributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Gianni Franchi , Jesus Angulo , Dino Sejdinovic

We study reproducing kernels, and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) $\mathscr{H}$ over infinite, discrete and countable sets $V$. In this setting we analyze in detail the distributions of the corresponding Dirac…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

A Kernel Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is introduced, for the purpose of sampling from a target distribution with strongly nonlinear support. The algorithm embeds the trajectory of the Markov chain into a reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-16 Dino Sejdinovic , Heiko Strathmann , Maria Lomeli Garcia , Christophe Andrieu , Arthur Gretton

Quantifying the difference between probability distributions is crucial in machine learning. However, estimating statistical divergences from empirical samples is challenging due to unknown underlying distributions. This work proposes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jhoan K. Hoyos-Osorio , Luis G. Sanchez-Giraldo

We propose a nonparametric method to learn the L\'evy density from probability density data governed by a nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation. We recast the problem as identifying the kernel in a nonlocal integral operator from discrete data,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Luxuan Yang , Fei Lu , Ting Gao , Wei Wei , Jinqiao Duan

An extension of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) theory provides a new framework for modeling functional regression models with functional responses. The approach only presumes a general nonlinear regression structure as opposed to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Heng Lian

We analyse the convergence of sampling algorithms for functions in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). To this end, we discuss approximation properties of kernel regression under minimalistic assumptions on both the kernel and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-21 Armin Iske

We propose a novel Bayesian methodology for inference in functional linear and logistic regression models based on the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS's). We introduce general models that build upon the RKHS generated by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-09 José R. Berrendero , Antonio Coín , Antonio Cuevas

We consider the random-design least-squares regression problem within the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) framework. Given a stream of independent and identically distributed input/output data, we aim to learn a regression function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Aymeric Dieuleveut , Francis Bach

For distribution regression problem, where a bag of $x$--observations is mapped to a single $y$ value, a one--step solution is proposed. The problem of random distribution to random value is transformed to random vector to random value by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Vladislav Gennadievich Malyshkin

A methodological framework for ensemble-based estimation and simulation of high dimensional dynamical systems such as the oceanic or atmospheric flows is proposed. To that end, the dynamical system is embedded in a family of reproducing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Benjamin Dufée , Bérenger Hug , Etienne Mémin , Gilles Tissot

Learning the governing equations from time-series data has gained increasing attention due to its potential to extract useful dynamics from real-world data. Despite significant progress, it becomes challenging in the presence of noise,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Hailong Guo , Haibo Li

We demonstrate an equivalence between reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embeddings of conditional distributions and vector-valued regressors. This connection introduces a natural regularized loss function which the RKHS embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Steffen Grünewälder , Guy Lever , Luca Baldassarre , Sam Patterson , Arthur Gretton , Massimilano Pontil

Multidimensional function data arise from many fields nowadays. The covariance function plays an important role in the analysis of such increasingly common data. In this paper, we propose a novel nonparametric covariance function estimation…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-14 Jiayi Wang , Raymond K. W. Wong , Xiaoke Zhang

Kernel methods approximate nonlinear maps in a data-driven manner by projecting the target map onto a finite-dimensional Hilbert space called the solution space. Traditionally, this space is a subspace of a fixed ambient reproducing kernel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tamás Dózsa , Andrea Angino , Zoltán Szabó , József Bokor , Matthias Voigt

Learning nonparametric systems of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) dot x = f(t,x) from noisy data is an emerging machine learning topic. We use the well-developed theory of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) to define candidates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-14 Kamel Lahouel , Michael Wells , Victor Rielly , Ethan Lew , David Lovitz , Bruno M. Jedynak

Consider the problem: given the data pair $(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{y})$ drawn from a population with $f_*(x) = \mathbf{E}[\mathbf{y} | \mathbf{x} = x]$, specify a neural network model and run gradient flow on the weights over time until…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-27 Xialiang Dou , Tengyuan Liang

A method for learning Hamiltonian dynamics from a limited and noisy dataset is proposed. The method learns a Hamiltonian vector field on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) of inherently Hamiltonian vector fields, and in particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Torbjørn Smith , Olav Egeland