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Kernel-based methods offer a powerful and flexible mathematical framework for addressing histopolation problems. In histopolation, the available input data does not consist of pointwise function samples but of averages taken over intervals…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ludovico Bruni Bruno , Giacomo Cappellazzo , Wolfgang Erb , Mohammad Karimnejad Esfahani

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

An abstract Pick interpolation theorem for a family of positive semi-definite kernels on a set $X$ is formulated. The result complements those in \cite{Ag} and \cite{AMbook} and will subsequently be applied to Pick interpolation on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-05 Michael Jury , Greg Knese , Scott McCullough

The kernel-based multi-scale method has been proven to be a powerful approximation method for scattered data approximation problems which is computationally superior to conventional kernel-based interpolation techniques. The multi-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Federico Lot , Christian Rieger

The paper introduces a new characterisation of strictly positive definiteness for kernels on the 2-sphere without assuming the kernel to be radially (isotropic) or axially symmetric. The results use the series expansion of the kernel in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Janin Jäger

This work is concerned with the kernel-based approximation of a complex-valued function from data, where the frequency response function of a partial differential equation in the frequency domain is of particular interest. In this setting,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Julien Bect , Niklas Georg , Ulrich Römer , Sebastian Schöps

The theory of positive kernels and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, especially in the setting of holomorphic functions, has been an important tool for the last several decades in a number of areas of complex analysis and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Joseph A. Ball , Gregory Marx , Victor Vinnikov

We tackle the problem of optimizing over all possible positive definite radial kernels on Riemannian manifolds for classification. Kernel methods on Riemannian manifolds have recently become increasingly popular in computer vision. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Richard Hartley , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

For two continuous and isotropic positive definite kernels on the same compact two-point homogeneous space, we determine necessary and sufficient conditions in order that their product be strictly positive definite. We also provide a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Rafaela N. Bonfim , Jean C. Guella , Valdir A. Menegatto

Positive definite operator-valued kernels generalize the well-known notion of reproducing kernels, and are naturally adapted to multi-output learning situations. This paper addresses the problem of learning a finite linear combination of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-15 Hachem Kadri , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Francis Bach , Philippe Preux

The present article is concerned scattered data approximation for higher dimensional data sets which exhibit an anisotropic behavior in the different dimensions. Tailoring sparse polynomial interpolation to this specific situation, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Helmut Harbrecht , Michael Multerer , Jacopo Quizi

Interpolation for scattered data is a classical problem in numerical analysis, with a long history of theoretical and practical contributions. Recent advances have utilized deep neural networks to construct interpolators, exhibiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Shizhe Ding , Boyang Xia , Milong Ren , Dongbo Bu

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…

We study how iterated and composed completely positive maps act on operator-valued kernels. Each kernel is realized inside a single Hilbert space where composition corresponds to applying bounded creation operators to feature vectors. This…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 James Tian

This paper is devoted to the study of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We focus on multipliers of reproducing kernel Banach and Hilbert spaces. In particular we tried to extend this concept and prove some theorems.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Ali Ebadian , Saeed Hashemi Sababe , Maysam Zallaghi

Variably scaled kernels and mapped bases constructed via the so-called fake nodes approach are two different strategies to provide adaptive bases for function interpolation. In this paper, we focus on kernel-based interpolation and we…

Characterizing the function spaces defined by neural networks helps understanding the corresponding learning models and their inductive bias. While in some limits neural networks correspond to function spaces that are Hilbert spaces, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-22 Francesca Bartolucci , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco , Stefano Vigogna

For two decades, reproducing kernels and their associated discrepancies have facilitated elegant theoretical analyses in the setting of quasi Monte Carlo. These same tools are now receiving interest in statistics and related fields, as…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-24 Chris. J. Oates

This work explores new classes of nonstationary stochastic sequences associated with polynomial hypergroups. Their covariance structures are analyzed through positive definite kernels and corresponding Hilbert spaces. Novel consistent…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Volker Hösel

We study classes of reproducing kernels $K$ on general domains; these are kernels which arise commonly in machine learning models; models based on certain families of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. They are the positive definite kernels…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian