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In this study, we present evidence suggesting that depthwise convolutional kernels are effectively replicating the structural intricacies of the biological receptive fields observed in the mammalian retina. We provide analytics of trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zahra Babaiee , Peyman M. Kiasari , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

Cerebellar-like networks, in which input activity patterns are separated by projection to a much higher-dimensional space before classification, are a recurring neurobiological motif, present in the cerebellum, dentate gyrus, insect…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-23 William Dorrell , Peter E. Latham

Mode decomposition is a prototypical pattern recognition problem that can be addressed from the (a priori distinct) perspectives of numerical approximation, statistical inference and deep learning. Could its analysis through these combined…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-07 Houman Owhadi , Clint Scovel , Gene Ryan Yoo

We review machine learning methods employing positive definite kernels. These methods formulate learning and estimation problems in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) of functions defined on the data domain, expanded in terms of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Thomas Hofmann , Bernhard Schölkopf , Alexander J. Smola

The impressive practical performance of neural networks is often attributed to their ability to learn low-dimensional data representations and hierarchical structure directly from data. In this work, we argue that these two phenomena are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-06 Libin Zhu , Damek Davis , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Maryam Fazel

Learning concepts that are consistent with human perception is important for Deep Neural Networks to win end-user trust. Post-hoc interpretation methods lack transparency in the feature representations learned by the models. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sandareka Wickramanayake , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

The compositionality and sparsity of high-throughput sequencing data poses a challenge for regression and classification. However, in microbiome research in particular, conditional modeling is an essential tool to investigate relationships…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Shimeng Huang , Elisabeth Ailer , Niki Kilbertus , Niklas Pfister

This survey is an introduction to positive definite kernels and the set of methods they have inspired in the machine learning literature, namely kernel methods. We first discuss some properties of positive definite kernels as well as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-12-04 Marco Cuturi

Machine learning models are a powerful theoretical tool for analyzing data from quantum simulators, in which results of experiments are sets of snapshots of many-body states. Recently, they have been successfully applied to distinguish…

Predicting the structure of multi-protein complexes is a grand challenge in biochemistry, with major implications for basic science and drug discovery. Computational structure prediction methods generally leverage pre-defined structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-26 Stephan Eismann , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Nathaniel Thomas , Milind Jagota , Bowen Jing , Ron O. Dror

A major prerequisite for the application of machine learning models in clinical decision making is trust and interpretability. Current explainability studies in the neuroimaging community have mostly focused on explaining individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Fabian Eitel , Anna Melkonyan , Kerstin Ritter

We propose a novel family of connectionist models based on kernel machines and consider the problem of learning layer-by-layer a compositional hypothesis class, i.e., a feedforward, multilayer architecture, in a supervised setting. In terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Shiyu Duan , Shujian Yu , Yunmei Chen , Jose Principe

These notes provide a self-contained introduction to kernel methods and their geometric foundations in machine learning. Starting from the construction of Hilbert spaces, we develop the theory of positive definite kernels, reproducing…

Latent space models are widely used for analyzing high-dimensional discrete data matrices, such as patient-feature matrices in electronic health records (EHRs), by capturing complex dependence structures through low-dimensional embeddings.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Weijing Tang , Ming Yuan , Zongqi Xia , Tianxi Cai

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are known to learn an image representation that captures concepts relevant to the task, but do so in an implicit way that hampers model interpretability. However, one could argue that such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Diego Marcos , Ruth Fong , Sylvain Lobry , Remi Flamary , Nicolas Courty , Devis Tuia

We study feature learning in a compositional variant of kernel ridge regression in which the predictor is applied to a learnable linear transformation of the input. When the response depends on the input only through a low-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Yunlu Chen , Yang Li , Keli Liu , Feng Ruan

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

This paper develops a novel mathematical framework for collaborative learning by means of geometrically inspired kernel machines which includes statements on the bounds of generalisation and approximation errors, and sample complexity. For…

Link prediction plays an important role in network analysis and applications. Recently, approaches for link prediction have evolved from traditional similarity-based algorithms into embedding-based algorithms. However, most existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lei Wang , Jing Ren , Bo Xu , Jianxin Li , Wei Luo , Feng Xia

Substring kernels are classical tools for representing biological sequences or text. However, when large amounts of annotated data are available, models that allow end-to-end training such as neural networks are often preferred. Links…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-18 Dexiong Chen , Laurent Jacob , Julien Mairal