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Given $M \geq 2$ distributions defined on a general measurable space, we introduce a nonparametric (kernel) measure of multi-sample dissimilarity (KMD) -- a parameter that quantifies the difference between the $M$ distributions. The…
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Kernel techniques are among the most popular and flexible approaches in data science allowing to represent probability measures without loss of information under mild conditions. The resulting mapping called mean embedding gives rise to a…
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This work incorporates the multi-modality of the data distribution into a Gaussian Process regression model. We approach the problem from a discriminative perspective by learning, jointly over the training data, the target space variance in…
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Bayesian density deconvolution using nonparametric prior distributions is a useful alternative to the frequentist kernel based deconvolution estimators due to its potentially wide range of applicability, straightforward uncertainty…
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The Gaussian kernel plays a central role in machine learning, uncertainty quantification and scattered data approximation, but has received relatively little attention from a numerical analysis standpoint. The basic problem of finding an…
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Hjort and Glad (1995) present a method for semiparametric density estimation. Relative to the ordinary kernel density estimator, this technique performs much better when a parametric vehicle distribution fits the data, and otherwise…
We introduce an alternative method for the calculation of sky maps from data taken with gamma-ray telescopes. In contrast to the established method of smoothing the 2D histogram of reconstructed event directions with a static kernel, we…
The directional mean shift (DMS) algorithm is a nonparametric method for pursuing local modes of densities defined by kernel density estimators on the unit hypersphere. In this paper, we show that any DMS iteration can be viewed as a…
Nonlinear approximations to problems with mixed boundary conditions are useful for predicting large-scale streaming velocities from the density field, or vice-versa. We evaluate the schemes of Bernardeau \cite{bernardeau92}, Gramann…
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