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Estimation of the mean and covariance functions is a fundamental problem in functional data analysis, particularly for discretely observed functional data. In this work, we study a regularization-based framework for estimating the mean and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Naveen Gupta , Bharath K Sriperumbudur

Learning an appropriate (dis)similarity function from the available data is a central problem in machine learning, since the success of many machine learning algorithms critically depends on the choice of a similarity function to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Zheng-Chu Guo , Yiming Ying

In this paper, we establish universal approximation theorems for neural networks applied to general nonlinear ill-posed operator equations. In addition to the approximation error, the measurement error is also taken into account in our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Lan Wang , Qiao Zhu , Bangti Jin , Ye Zhang

State-of-the-art neural networks can be trained to become remarkable solutions to many problems. But while these architectures can express symbolic, perfect solutions, trained models often arrive at approximations instead. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Matan Abudy , Orr Well , Emmanuel Chemla , Roni Katzir , Nur Lan

Many challenging image processing tasks can be described by an ill-posed linear inverse problem: deblurring, deconvolution, inpainting, compressed sensing, and superresolution all lie in this framework. Traditional inverse problem solvers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Davis Gilton , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Regularization of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for the sake of improving their generalization capability is important and challenging. The development in this line benefits theoretical foundation of DNNs and promotes their usability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yingzhen Yang , Jiahui Yu , Xingjian Li , Jun Huan , Thomas S. Huang

In this paper, we study norm-based regularization methods for neural networks. We compare existing penalization approaches and introduce two regularization strategies that extend classical ridge- and lasso-type penalties to neural network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-04 Muhammad Qasim , Farrukh Javed

The large capacity of neural networks enables them to learn complex functions. To avoid overfitting, networks however require a lot of training data that can be expensive and time-consuming to collect. A common practical approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Majed El Helou , Frederike Dümbgen , Sabine Süsstrunk

We provide a function space characterization of the inductive bias resulting from minimizing the $\ell_2$ norm of the weights in multi-channel convolutional neural networks with linear activations and empirically test our resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Meena Jagadeesan , Ilya Razenshteyn , Suriya Gunasekar

We present an exploration of the rich theoretical connections between several classes of regularized models, network flows, and recent results in submodular function theory. This work unifies key aspects of these problems under a common…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-09 Hoyt Koepke , Marina Meila

Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xinyue Yu , Hayden Schaeffer

Purpose: This work aims at developing a generalizable MRI reconstruction model in the meta-learning framework. The standard benchmarks in meta-learning are challenged by learning on diverse task distributions. The proposed network learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Wanyu Bian , Yunmei Chen , Xiaojing Ye , Qingchao Zhang

Joint network topology inference represents a canonical problem of jointly learning multiple graph Laplacian matrices from heterogeneous graph signals. In such a problem, a widely employed assumption is that of a simple common component…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Yanli Yuan , De Wen Soh , Xiao Yang , Kun Guo , Tony Q. S. Quek

We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV)-minimization. Our approach is inspired by recent…

This paper presents a general vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) framework for the problem of learning an unknown functional dependency between a structured input space and a structured output space. Our formulation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-23 Ha Quang Minh , Loris Bazzani , Vittorio Murino

Universal approximation theory offers a foundational framework to verify neural network expressiveness, enabling principled utilization in real-world applications. However, most existing theoretical constructions are established by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 ZeYu Li , ShiJun Zhang , TieYong Zeng , FengLei Fan

Classical approach to regularization is to design norms enhancing smoothness or sparsity and then to use this norm or some power of this norm as a regularization function. The choice of the regularization function (for instance a power…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Raphaël Deswarte , Guillaume Lecué

Normalization techniques play an important role in supporting efficient and often more effective training of deep neural networks. While conventional methods explicitly normalize the activations, we suggest to add a loss term instead. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Etai Littwin , Lior Wolf

Learning convolution kernels in operators from data arises in numerous applications and represents an ill-posed inverse problem of broad interest. With scant prior information, kernel methods offer a natural nonparametric approach with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Haibo Li , Fei Lu

A novel approach for unsupervised domain adaptation for neural networks is proposed. It relies on metric-based regularization of the learning process. The metric-based regularization aims at domain-invariant latent feature representations…