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Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) are key spaces for machine learning that are becoming popular also for linear system identification. In particular, the so-called stable RKHSs can be used to model absolutely summable impulse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Mauro Bisiacco , Gianluigi Pillonetto

Robust estimation has played an important role in statistical and machine learning. However, its applications to functional linear regression are still under-developed. In this paper, we focus on Huber's loss with a diverging robustness…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Ling Peng , Xiaohui Liu , Heng Lian

This paper presents a novel approach to formulating the actor-critic method for optimal control by casting policy iteration in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs -- also known as native spaces). By tailoring the reproducing kernel and…

In this paper we analyze a greedy procedure to approximate a linear functional defined in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space by nodal values. This procedure computes a quadrature rule which can be applied to general functionals, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Gabriele Santin , Toni Karvonen , Bernard Haasdonk

Over the last decade, kernel methods for nonlinear processing have successfully been used in the machine learning community. The primary mathematical tool employed in these methods is the notion of the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Pantelis Bouboulis , Sergios Theodoridis

We study in this paper a smoothness regularization method for functional linear regression and provide a unified treatment for both the prediction and estimation problems. By developing a tool on simultaneous diagonalization of two positive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Ming Yuan , T. Tony Cai

Recently, some works have suggested methods to combine variational probabilistic inference with Monte Carlo sampling. One promising approach is via local optimal transport. In this approach, a gradient steepest descent method based on local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Manuel Pulido , Peter Jan vanLeeuwen , Derek J. Posselt

This study examines the optimal selections of bandwidth and semi-metric for a functional partial linear model. Our proposed method begins by estimating the unknown error density using a kernel density estimator of residuals, where the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-17 Han Lin Shang

The functional generalized additive model (FGAM) provides a more flexible nonlinear functional regression model than the well-studied functional linear regression model. This paper restricts attention to the FGAM with identity link and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Xiao Wang , David Ruppert

Motivated by the inherent heterogeneity observed in many functional or imaging datasets, this paper focuses on subgroup learning in functional or image responses. While change-plane analysis has demonstrated empirical success in practice,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-04 Xin Guan , Yiyuan Li , Xu Liu , Jinhong You

We consider the problem of optimising functions in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) of a Mat\'ern kernel with smoothness parameter $\nu$ over the domain $[0,1]^d$ under noisy bandit feedback. Our contribution, the $\pi$-GP-UCB…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 David Janz , David R. Burt , Javier González

This manuscript presents an algorithm for obtaining an approximation of a nonlinear high order control affine dynamical system. Controlled trajectories of the system are leveraged as the central unit of information via embedding them in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Moad Abudia , Tejasvi Channagiri , Joel A. Rosenfeld , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

We study reproducing kernels, and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) $\mathscr{H}$ over infinite, discrete and countable sets $V$. In this setting we analyze in detail the distributions of the corresponding Dirac…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

This paper addresses nonparametric estimation of nonlinear multivariate Hawkes processes, where the interaction functions are assumed to lie in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Motivated by applications in neuroscience, the model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-26 Anna Bonnet , Maxime Sangnier

Kernel methods have been among the most popular techniques in machine learning, where learning tasks are solved using the property of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). In this paper, we propose a novel data analysis framework with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-03 Yuka Hashimoto , Isao Ishikawa , Masahiro Ikeda , Fuyuta Komura , Takeshi Katsura , Yoshinobu Kawahara

The optimization of black-box functions with noisy observations is a fundamental problem with widespread applications, and has been widely studied under the assumption that the function lies in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Xu Cai , Jonathan Scarlett

Nonlinear kernel regression models are often used in statistics and machine learning because they are more accurate than linear models. Variable selection for kernel regression models is a challenge partly because, unlike the linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-13 Lorin Crawford , Kris C. Wood , Xiang Zhou , Sayan Mukherjee

Multiscale Models are known to be successful in uncovering and analyzing the structures in data at different resolutions. In the current work we propose a feature driven Reproducing Kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), for which the associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Prashant Shekhar , Abani Patra

We consider the problem of constructing a global, probabilistic, and non-asymptotic confidence region for an unknown function observed on a random design. The unknown function is assumed to lie in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS).…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Fabrice Gamboa , Olivier Roustant

Approximating the optimal value function $v^*$ for infinite-horizon, nonlinear, autonomous optimal control problems is both challenging and essential for synthesizing real-time optimal feedback. We develop an abstract optimal recovery…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Tobias Ehring , Behzad Azmi , Bernard Haasdonk