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Kernel methods have been extensively utilized in machine learning for classification and prediction tasks due to their ability to capture complex non-linear data patterns. However, single kernel approaches are inherently limited, as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiyuan Shi , Jian Kang , Yi Li

Kernels are powerful and versatile tools in machine learning and statistics. Although the notion of universal kernels and characteristic kernels has been studied, kernel selection still greatly influences the empirical performance. While…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 Chun-Liang Li , Wei-Cheng Chang , Youssef Mroueh , Yiming Yang , Barnabás Póczos

Deep kernel learning aims at designing nonlinear combinations of multiple standard elementary kernels by training deep networks. This scheme has proven to be effective, but intractable when handling large-scale datasets especially when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi

As quantum computers become increasingly practical, so does the prospect of using quantum computation to improve upon traditional algorithms. Kernel methods in machine learning is one area where such improvements could be realized in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Ara Ghukasyan , Jack S. Baker , Oktay Goktas , Juan Carrasquilla , Santosh Kumar Radha

We propose a kernelized classification layer for deep networks. Although conventional deep networks introduce an abundance of nonlinearity for representation (feature) learning, they almost universally use a linear classifier on the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sadeep Jayasumana , Srikumar Ramalingam , Sanjiv Kumar

We introduce Constr-DRKM, a deep kernel method for the unsupervised learning of disentangled data representations. We propose augmenting the original deep restricted kernel machine formulation for kernel PCA by orthogonality constraints on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Francesco Tonin , Panagiotis Patrinos , Johan A. K. Suykens

Learning linear combinations of multiple kernels is an appealing strategy when the right choice of features is unknown. Previous approaches to multiple kernel learning (MKL) promote sparse kernel combinations to support interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Marius Kloft , Ulf Brefeld , Soeren Sonnenburg , Alexander Zien

This papers introduces an algorithm for the solution of multiple kernel learning (MKL) problems with elastic-net constraints on the kernel weights. The algorithm compares very favourably in terms of time and space complexity to existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-08 Luca Citi

In this paper we propose a new non-linear classifier based on a combination of locally linear classifiers. A well known optimization formulation is given as we cast the problem in a $\ell_1$ Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem using many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 David Picard

Combining information from various image features has become a standard technique in concept recognition tasks. However, the optimal way of fusing the resulting kernel functions is usually unknown in practical applications. Multiple kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Alexander Binder , Shinichi Nakajima , Marius Kloft , Christina Müller , Wojciech Samek , Ulf Brefeld , Klaus-Robert Müller , Motoaki Kawanabe

Kernel fusion is a popular and effective approach for combining multiple features that characterize different aspects of data. Traditional approaches for Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) attempt to learn the parameters for combining the…

Multi-label classification is a challenging task in pattern recognition. Many deep learning methods have been proposed and largely enhanced classification performance. However, most of the existing sophisticated methods ignore context in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Mingyuan Jiu , Hailong Zhu , Hichem Sahbi

Multiple kernel methods less consider the intrinsic manifold structure of multiple kernel data and estimate the consensus kernel matrix with quadratic number of variables, which makes it vulnerable to the noise and outliers within multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Liang Du , Xin Ren , Haiying Zhang , Peng Zhou

In the last few decades, significant achievements have been attained in predicting where humans look at images through different computational models. However, how to determine contributions of different visual features to overall saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Yasin Kavak , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Face Recognition (FR) has been the interest to several researchers over the past few decades due to its passive nature of biometric authentication. Despite high accuracy achieved by face recognition algorithms under controlled conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Samik Banerjee , Sukhendu Das

Kernel methods serve as powerful tools to capture nonlinear patterns behind data in machine learning. The quantum kernel, integrating kernel theory with quantum computing, has attracted widespread attention. However, existing studies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Jing Li , Yanqi Song , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao

Quantum kernel methods (QKMs) have emerged as a prominent framework for supervised quantum machine learning. Unlike variational quantum algorithms, which rely on gradient-based optimisation and may suffer from issues such as barren…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 John Tanner , Chon-Fai Kam , Jingbo Wang

Conditional Maximum Mean Discrepancy (CMMD) can capture the discrepancy between conditional distributions by drawing support from nonlinear kernel functions, thus it has been successfully used for pattern classification. However, CMMD does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Chuan-Xian Ren , Pengfei Ge , Dao-Qing Dai , Hong Yan

In this paper we propose solving localized multiple kernel learning (LMKL) using LMKL-Net, a feedforward deep neural network. In contrast to previous works, as a learning principle we propose {\em parameterizing} both the gating function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-23 Ziming Zhang

We implement an all-optical setup demonstrating kernel-based quantum machine learning for two-dimensional classification problems. In this hybrid approach, kernel evaluations are outsourced to projective measurements on suitably designed…