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Metric and kernel learning are important in several machine learning applications. However, most existing metric learning algorithms are limited to learning metrics over low-dimensional data, while existing kernel learning algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-11-02 Prateek Jain , Brian Kulis , Jason V. Davis , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Machine learning algorithms based on parametrized quantum circuits are prime candidates for near-term applications on noisy quantum computers. In this direction, various types of quantum machine learning models have been introduced and…

There are plenty of problems where the data available is scarce and expensive. We propose a generator of semi-artificial data with similar properties to the original data which enables development and testing of different data mining…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 Marko Robnik-Šikonja

Modern Bayesian optimization and adaptive sampling methods increasingly rely on nonlinear parametric models, yet theoretical guarantees for such models under adaptive data collection remain limited. Existing analyses largely focus on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Rafael Oliveira

While deep neural networks (DNNs) and Gaussian Processes (GPs) are both popularly utilized to solve problems in reinforcement learning, both approaches feature undesirable drawbacks for challenging problems. DNNs learn complex nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Imène R. Goumiri , Benjamin W. Priest , Michael D. Schneider

With near-term quantum devices available and the race for fault-tolerant quantum computers in full swing, researchers became interested in the question of what happens if we replace a supervised machine learning model with a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Maria Schuld

Quantum kernel methods promise enhanced expressivity for learning structured data, but their usefulness has been limited by kernel concentration and barren plateaus. Both effects are mathematically equivalent and suppress trainability. We…

Kernel methods, being supported by a well-developed theory and coming with efficient algorithms, are among the most popular and successful machine learning techniques. From a mathematical point of view, these methods rest on the concept of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-20 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Michael Rom , Chiara Segala , Sebastian Trimpe

Contemporary deep neural networks exhibit impressive results on practical problems. These networks generalize well although their inherent capacity may extend significantly beyond the number of training examples. We analyze this behavior in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Tamir Hazan , Tommi Jaakkola

Kernel continual learning by \citet{derakhshani2021kernel} has recently emerged as a strong continual learner due to its non-parametric ability to tackle task interference and catastrophic forgetting. Unfortunately its success comes at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani , Xiantong Zhen , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek

In this short note, we reify the connection between work on the storage capacity problem in wide two-layer treelike neural networks and the rapidly-growing body of literature on kernel limits of wide neural networks. Concretely, we observe…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-02 Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , Cengiz Pehlevan

We construct $\bf genRBF$ kernel, which generalizes the classical Gaussian RBF kernel to the case of incomplete data. We model the uncertainty contained in missing attributes making use of data distribution and associate every point with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Łukasz Struski , Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor

Gaussian Process Regression is a well-known machine learning technique for which several quantum algorithms have been proposed. We show here that in a wide range of scenarios these algorithms show no exponential speedup. We achieve this by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Dominic Lowe , M. S. Kim , Roberto Bondesan

Kernelization is an important tool in parameterized algorithmics. Given an input instance accompanied by a parameter, the goal is to compute in polynomial time an equivalent instance of the same problem such that the size of the reduced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Till Fluschnik , George B. Mertzios , André Nichterlein

We study quantum neural networks made by parametric one-qubit gates and fixed two-qubit gates in the limit of infinite width, where the generated function is the expectation value of the sum of single-qubit observables over all the qubits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Filippo Girardi , Giacomo De Palma

Regularized pairwise ranking with Gaussian kernels is one of the cutting-edge learning algorithms. Despite a wide range of applications, a rigorous theoretical demonstration still lacks to support the performance of such ranking estimators.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-07 Guanhang Lei , Lei Shi

Generalization beyond a training dataset is a main goal of machine learning, but theoretical understanding of generalization remains an open problem for many models. The need for a new theory is exacerbated by recent observations in deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-08 Abdulkadir Canatar , Blake Bordelon , Cengiz Pehlevan

Quantum computers are known to provide speedups over classical state-of-the-art machine learning methods in some specialized settings. For example, quantum kernel methods have been shown to provide an exponential speedup on a learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Abdulkadir Canatar , Evan Peters , Cengiz Pehlevan , Stefan M. Wild , Ruslan Shaydulin

In this paper, we study the feature learning ability of two-layer neural networks in the mean-field regime through the lens of kernel methods. To focus on the dynamics of the kernel induced by the first layer, we utilize a two-timescale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shokichi Takakura , Taiji Suzuki

Fault-tolerant quantum computers offer the promise of dramatically improving machine learning through speed-ups in computation or improved model scalability. In the near-term, however, the benefits of quantum machine learning are not so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Amira Abbas , David Sutter , Christa Zoufal , Aurélien Lucchi , Alessio Figalli , Stefan Woerner