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Within machine learning model evaluation regimes, feature selection is a technique to reduce model complexity and improve model performance in regards to generalization, model fit, and accuracy of prediction. However, the search over the…

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Probabilistic machine learning models are distinguished by their ability to integrate prior knowledge of noise statistics, smoothness parameters, and training data uncertainty. A common approach involves modeling data with Gaussian…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-31 Cristian A. Galvis-Florez , Ahmad Farooq , Simo Särkkä

We explore the merits of training of support vector machines for binary classification by means of solving systems of ordinary differential equations. We thus assume a continuous time perspective on a machine learning problem which may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Christian Bauckhage , Helen Schneider , Benjamin Wulff , Rafet Sifa

We present a dual subspace ascent algorithm for support vector machine training that respects a budget constraint limiting the number of support vectors. Budget methods are effective for reducing the training time of kernel SVM while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Sahar Qaadan , Merlin Schüler , Tobias Glasmachers

Demonstrating quantum advantage has been a pressing challenge in the field. Most claimed quantum speedups rely on a subroutine in which classical information can be accessed in a coherent quantum manner, which imposes a crucial constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nhat A. Nghiem

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a fast-growing discipline within quantum computing. One popular QML algorithm, quantum kernel estimation, uses quantum circuits to estimate a similarity measure (kernel) between two classical feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Travis L. Scholten , Derrick Perry , Joseph Washington , Jennifer R. Glick , Thomas Ward

We investigate the relation of two fundamental tools in machine learning and signal processing, that is the support vector machine (SVM) for classification, and the Lasso technique used in regression. We show that the resulting optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Martin Jaggi

Kernel methods are used extensively in classical machine learning, especially in the field of pattern analysis. In this paper, we propose a kernel-based quantum machine learning algorithm that can be implemented on a near-term, intermediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Roohollah Ghobadi , Jaspreet S. Oberoi , Ehsan Zahedinejhad

Generalizing earlier work characterizing the quantum query complexity of computing a function of an unknown classical ``black box'' function drawn from some set of such black box functions, we investigate a more general quantum query model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard N. Barnum

Quantum computing opens exciting opportunities for kernel-based machine learning methods, which have broad applications in data analysis. Recent works show that quantum computers can efficiently construct a model of a classifier by…

We propose simple polynomial-time algorithms for two linear conic feasibility problems. For a matrix $A\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$, the kernel problem requires a positive vector in the kernel of $A$, and the image problem requires a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Daniel Dadush , László A. Végh , Giacomo Zambelli

Quantum algorithms can enhance machine learning in different aspects. Here, we study quantum-enhanced least-square support vector machine (LS-SVM). Firstly, a novel quantum algorithm that uses continuous variable to assist matrix inversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jie Lin , Dan-Bo Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Xiang Wang , Tan Li , Wan-su Bao

The recent availability of quantum annealers as cloud-based services has enabled new ways to handle machine learning problems, and several relevant algorithms have been adapted to run on these devices. In a recent work, linear regression…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Costantino Carugno , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are still one of the most popular and precise classifiers. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel has been used in SVMs to separate among classes with considerable success. However, there is an intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Karl Thurnhofer-Hemsi , Ezequiel López-Rubio , Miguel A. Molina-Cabello , Kayvan Najarian

Quantum machine learning (QML) is an emerging field that investigates the capabilities of quantum computers for learning tasks. While QML models can theoretically offer advantages such as exponential speed-ups, challenges in data loading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Florian J. Kiwit , Bernhard Jobst , Andre Luckow , Frank Pollmann , Carlos A. Riofrío

Conic programs arise broadly in physics, quantum information, machine learning, and engineering, many of which are defined over sparse graphs. Although such problems can be solved in polynomial time using classical interior-point solvers,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Thinh Viet Le , Mark M. Wilde , Vassilis Kekatos

The computation of (i) $\varepsilon$-kernels, (ii) approximate diameter, and (iii) approximate bichromatic closest pair are fundamental problems in geometric approximation. In this paper, we describe new algorithms that offer significant…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is powerful classification technique based on the idea of structural risk minimization. Use of kernel function enables curse of dimensionality to be addressed. However, proper kernel function for certain problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Arindam Chaudhuri

The accuracy and complexity of machine learning algorithms based on kernel optimization are limited by the set of kernels over which they are able to optimize. An ideal set of kernels should: admit a linear parameterization (for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Brendon K. Colbert , Matthew M. Peet

We study the computational complexity certification of inexact gradient augmented Lagrangian methods for solving convex optimization problems with complicated constraints. We solve the augmented Lagrangian dual problem that arises from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Valentin Nedelcu , Ion Necoara , Quoc Tran Dinh