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From benign overfitting in overparameterized models to rich power-law scalings in performance, simple ridge regression displays surprising behaviors sometimes thought to be limited to deep neural networks. This balance of phenomenological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Alexander Atanasov , Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , Cengiz Pehlevan

Features in predictive models are not exchangeable, yet common supervised models treat them as such. Here we study ridge regression when the analyst can partition the features into $K$ groups based on external side-information. For example,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-05 Nikolaos Ignatiadis , Panagiotis Lolas

Random binning features, introduced in the seminal paper of Rahimi and Recht (2007), are an efficient method for approximating a kernel matrix using locality sensitive hashing. Random binning features provide a very simple and efficient way…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-24 Michael Kapralov , Navid Nouri , Ilya Razenshteyn , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh

We develop and analyze a principled approach to kernel ridge regression under covariate shift. The goal is to learn a regression function with small mean squared error over a target distribution, based on unlabeled data from there and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-25 Kaizheng Wang

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a widely used nonparametric method due to its strong theoretical guarantees and computational convenience. However, standard KRR does not distinguish between linear and nonlinear components in the signal,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xin Bing , Chao Wang

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a well-known and popular nonparametric regression approach with many desirable properties, including minimax rate-optimality in estimating functions that belong to common reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-15 Arash A. Amini

Distribution regression refers to the supervised learning problem where labels are only available for groups of inputs instead of individual inputs. In this paper, we develop a rigorous mathematical framework for distribution regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Maud Lemercier , Cristopher Salvi , Theodoros Damoulas , Edwin V. Bonilla , Terry Lyons

Convolutional neural networks perform a local and translationally-invariant treatment of the data: quantifying which of these two aspects is central to their success remains a challenge. We study this problem within a teacher-student…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-07 Alessandro Favero , Francesco Cagnetta , Matthieu Wyart

In this manuscript we consider Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) under the Gaussian design. Exponents for the decay of the excess generalization error of KRR have been reported in various works under the assumption of power-law decay of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-29 Hugo Cui , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Random Forests (RFs) are among the state-of-the-art in machine learning and offer excellent performance with nearly zero parameter tuning. Remarkably, RFs seem to be impervious to overfitting even though their basic building blocks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Sebastian Buschjäger , Katharina Morik

We consider fully row/column-correlated linear regression models and study several classical estimators (including minimum norm interpolators (GLS), ordinary least squares (LS), and ridge regressors). We show that \emph{Random Duality…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-14 Mihailo Stojnic

Random matrix theory has become a widely useful tool in high-dimensional statistics and theoretical machine learning. However, random matrix theory is largely focused on the proportional asymptotics in which the number of columns grows…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Chen Cheng , Andrea Montanari

We study theoretical properties of a broad class of regularized algorithms with vector-valued output. These spectral algorithms include kernel ridge regression, kernel principal component regression, various implementations of gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-24 Dimitri Meunier , Zikai Shen , Mattes Mollenhauer , Arthur Gretton , Zhu Li

Understanding the spectral properties of kernels offers a principled perspective on generalization and representation quality. While deep models achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in molecular property prediction, kernel methods remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Asma Jamali , Tin Sum Cheng , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

We perform a study on kernel regression for large-dimensional data (where the sample size $n$ is polynomially depending on the dimension $d$ of the samples, i.e., $n\asymp d^{\gamma}$ for some $\gamma >0$ ). We first build a general tool to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-01 Weihao Lu , Haobo Zhang , Yicheng Li , Manyun Xu , Qian Lin

We consider correlated \emph{factor} regression models (FRM) and analyze the performance of classical ridge interpolators. Utilizing powerful \emph{Random Duality Theory} (RDT) mathematical engine, we obtain \emph{precise} closed form…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-14 Mihailo Stojnic

This paper focuses on generalization performance analysis for distributed algorithms in the framework of learning theory. Taking distributed kernel ridge regression (DKRR) for example, we succeed in deriving its optimal learning rates in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Shao-Bo Lin , Di Wang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Kernel methods provide a principled approach to nonparametric learning. While their basic implementations scale poorly to large problems, recent advances showed that approximate solvers can efficiently handle massive datasets. A shortcoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Giacomo Meanti , Luigi Carratino , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco

In this paper, we analyze the spatial information of deep features, and propose two complementary regressions for robust visual tracking. First, we propose a kernelized ridge regression model wherein the kernel value is defined as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Chong Sun , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In recent years, studies such as \cite{carmon2019unlabeled,gowal2021improving,xing2022artificial} have demonstrated that incorporating additional real or generated data with pseudo-labels can enhance adversarial training through a two-stage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-23 Yue Xing