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We propose a spherical kernel for efficient graph convolution of 3D point clouds. Our metric-based kernels systematically quantize the local 3D space to identify distinctive geometric relationships in the data. Similar to the regular grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Huan Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Many machine learning techniques have been proposed in the last few years to process data represented in graph-structured form. Graphs can be used to model several scenarios, from molecules and materials to RNA secondary structures. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Nicolò Navarin , Dinh V. Tran , Alessandro Sperduti

The structure of transformation semigroups on a finite set is analyzed by introducing a hierarchy of functions mapping subsets to subsets. The resulting hierarchy of semigroups has a corresponding hierarchy of minimal ideals, or kernels.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-02 G. Budzban , Ph. Feinsilver

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 hypergeometric distribution is a popular distribution, whose properties have been extensively investigated. Generating functions of this distribution, such as the probability-generating function, the moment-generating function, and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Ken Yamamoto

In this paper, we study the angle testing problem in the context of similarity search in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces and propose two projection-based probabilistic kernel functions, one designed for angle comparison and the other for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kejing Lu , Chuan Xiao , Yoshiharu Ishikawa

Gaussian processes (GPs) provide flexible distributions over functions, with inductive biases controlled by a kernel. However, in many applications Gaussian processes can struggle with even moderate input dimensionality. Learning a low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Ian A. Delbridge , David S. Bindel , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Many algorithms for ranked data become computationally intractable as the number of objects grows due to the complex geometric structure induced by rankings. An additional challenge is posed by partial rankings, i.e. rankings in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Michelangelo Conserva , Marc Peter Deisenroth , K S Sesh Kumar

Driven by a large number of potential applications in areas like bioinformatics, information retrieval and social network analysis, the problem setting of inferring relations between pairs of data objects has recently been investigated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-30 Willem Waegeman , Tapio Pahikkala , Antti Airola , Tapio Salakoski , Michiel Stock , Bernard De Baets

This paper introduces a unified theoretical perspective that views deep generative models as probability transformation functions. Despite the apparent differences in architecture and training methodologies among various types of generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Vitalii Bondar , Vira Babenko , Roman Trembovetskyi , Yurii Korobeinyk , Viktoriya Dzyuba

It has been hypothesized that quantum computers may lend themselves well to applications in machine learning. In the present work, we analyze function classes defined via quantum kernels. Quantum computers offer the possibility to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Jonas M. Kübler , Simon Buchholz , Bernhard Schölkopf

A possible way of constructing polylogarithms on Riemann surfaces of higher genera facilitates integration kernels, which can be derived from generating functions incorporating the geometry of the surface. Functional relations between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Konstantin Baune , Johannes Broedel , Egor Im , Artyom Lisitsyn , Yannis Moeckli

Kernel methods give powerful, flexible, and theoretically grounded approaches to solving many problems in machine learning. The standard approach, however, requires pairwise evaluations of a kernel function, which can lead to scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Danica J. Sutherland , Jeff Schneider

We introduce a classification scheme for parton distribution models and we model generalized parton distributions (GPDs), their form factors, and parton distribution functions (PDFs), integrated and unintegrated ones, in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-08 Dieter Müller , Dae Sung Hwang

We use methods from the Fock space and Segal-Bargmann theories to prove several results on the Gaussian RBF kernel in complex analysis. The latter is one of the most used kernels in modern machine learning kernel methods, and in support…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Daniel Alpay , Fabrizio Colombo , Kamal Diki , Irene Sabadini

This research aims to develop kernel GNG, a kernelized version of the growing neural gas (GNG) algorithm, and to investigate the features of the networks generated by the kernel GNG. The GNG is an unsupervised artificial neural network that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Kazuhisa Fujita

The purpose of this review is to introduce the reader to graph kernels and the corresponding literature, with an emphasis on those with direct application to chemoinformatics. Graph kernels are functions that allow for the inference of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-29 James Young

We propose efficient random features for approximating a new and rich class of kernel functions that we refer to as Generalized Zonal Kernels (GZK). Our proposed GZK family, generalizes the zonal kernels (i.e., dot-product kernels on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Insu Han , Amir Zandieh , Haim Avron

Functional regression is very crucial in functional data analysis and a linear relationship between scalar response and functional predictor is often assumed. However, the linear assumption may not hold in practice, which makes the methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-18 Rou Zhong , Dongxue Wang , Jingxiao Zhang

Graph-based methods pervade the inference toolkits of numerous disciplines including sociology, biology, neuroscience, physics, chemistry, and engineering. A challenging problem encountered in this context pertains to determining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Daniel Romero , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis