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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…

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Neural networks are powerful function estimators, leading to their status as a paradigm of choice for modeling structured data. However, unlike other structured representations that emphasize the modularity of the problem -- e.g., factor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Tsvetomila Mihaylova , Vlad Niculae , André F. T. Martins

One of the most prominent attributes of Neural Networks (NNs) constitutes their capability of learning to extract robust and descriptive features from high dimensional data, like images. Hence, such an ability renders their exploitation as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ioannis Kansizoglou , Loukas Bampis , Antonios Gasteratos

Random features are a powerful technique for rewriting positive-definite kernels as linear products. They bring linear tools to bear in important nonlinear domains like KNNs and attention. Unfortunately, practical implementations require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Luke Sernau , Silvano Bonacina , Rif A. Saurous

Random Neural Networks (RNNs) are a class of Neural Networks (NNs) that can also be seen as a specific type of queuing network. They have been successfully used in several domains during the last 25 years, as queuing networks to analyze the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Sebastián Basterrech , Gerardo Rubino

The Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) is an important milestone in the ongoing effort to build a theory for deep learning. Its prediction that sufficiently wide neural networks behave as kernel methods, or equivalently as random feature models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Maxim Samarin , Volker Roth , David Belius

Emergence in machine learning refers to the spontaneous appearance of complex behaviors or capabilities that arise from the scale and structure of training data and model architectures, despite not being explicitly programmed. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Johnny Jingze Li , Vivek Kurien George , Gabriel A. Silva

Random Fourier features (RFFs) provide a promising way for kernel learning in a spectral case. Current RFFs-based kernel learning methods usually work in a two-stage way. In the first-stage process, learning the optimal feature map is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kun Fang , Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

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

A neural architecture with randomly initialized weights, in the infinite width limit, is equivalent to a Gaussian Random Field whose covariance function is the so-called Neural Network Gaussian Process kernel (NNGP). We prove that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Rustem Takhanov

Randomization is a powerful tool that endows algorithms with remarkable properties. For instance, randomized algorithms excel in adversarial settings, often surpassing the worst-case performance of deterministic algorithms with large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Johannes von Oswald , Seijin Kobayashi , Yassir Akram , Angelika Steger

Random feature approximation is arguably one of the most widely used techniques for kernel methods in large-scale learning algorithms. In this work, we analyze the generalization properties of random feature methods, extending previous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

While deep learning has achieved remarkable success across a wide range of applications, its theoretical understanding of representation learning remains limited. Deep neural kernels provide a principled framework to interpret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yong-Ming Tian , Shuang Liang , Shao-Qun Zhang , Feng-Lei Fan

Unified understanding of neuro networks (NNs) gets the users into great trouble because they have been puzzled by what kind of rules should be obeyed to optimize the internal structure of NNs. Considering the potential capability of random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Ruiqi Mao , Rongxin Cui

Functions are rich in meaning and can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Neural networks were proven to be capable of approximating a large class of functions[1]. In this paper, we propose a new class of neural networks called "Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Firat Tuna

Following the traditional paradigm of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), modern CNNs manage to keep pace with more recent, for example transformer-based, models by not only increasing model depth and width but also the kernel size. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper

Neural networks have achieved remarkable empirical performance, while the current theoretical analysis is not adequate for understanding their success, e.g., the Neural Tangent Kernel approach fails to capture their key feature learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhenmei Shi , Junyi Wei , Yingyu Liang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks on graph-structured data, primarily through the use of learned weights in message passing layers. In this paper, we demonstrate that random weights can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Thu Bui , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Bruno Ribeiro , Beatrice Bevilacqua , Moshe Eliasof

Research aimed at scaling up neuroscience inspired learning algorithms for neural networks is accelerating. Recently, a key research area has been the study of energy-based learning algorithms such as predictive coding, due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Luca Pinchetti , Simon Frieder , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Tommaso Salvatori

Kernel methods represent one of the most powerful tools in machine learning to tackle problems expressed in terms of function values and derivatives due to their capability to represent and model complex relations. While these methods show…

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