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Approximation using Fourier features is a popular technique for scaling kernel methods to large-scale problems, with myriad applications in machine learning and statistics. This method replaces the integral representation of a…

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Kernel methods offer the flexibility to learn complex relationships in modern, large data sets while enjoying strong theoretical guarantees on quality. Unfortunately, these methods typically require cubic running time in the data set size,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-01 Raj Agrawal , Trevor Campbell , Jonathan H. Huggins , Tamara Broderick

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

Tensor algebras give rise to one of the most powerful measures of similarity for sequences of arbitrary length called the signature kernel accompanied with attractive theoretical guarantees from stochastic analysis. Previous algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-25 Csaba Toth , Harald Oberhauser , Zoltan Szabo

We prove new explicit upper bounds on the leverage scores of Fourier sparse functions under both the Gaussian and Laplace measures. In particular, we study $s$-sparse functions of the form $f(x) = \sum_{j=1}^s a_j e^{i \lambda_j x}$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Tamás Erdélyi , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

We present an intriguing discovery related to Random Fourier Features: in Gaussian kernel approximation, replacing the random Gaussian matrix by a properly scaled random orthogonal matrix significantly decreases kernel approximation error.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Felix X. Yu , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Krzysztof Choromanski , Daniel Holtmann-Rice , Sanjiv Kumar

We revisit Rahimi and Recht (2007)'s kernel random Fourier features (RFF) method through the lens of the PAC-Bayesian theory. While the primary goal of RFF is to approximate a kernel, we look at the Fourier transform as a prior distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-28 Gaël Letarte , Emilie Morvant , Pascal Germain

In supervised learning using kernel methods, we often encounter a large-scale finite-sum minimization over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Large-scale finite-sum problems can be solved using efficient variants of Newton method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

Large-scale kernel approximation is an important problem in machine learning research. Approaches using random Fourier features have become increasingly popular [Rahimi and Recht, 2007], where kernel approximation is treated as empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Wei-Cheng Chang , Chun-Liang Li , Yiming Yang , Barnabas Poczos

The random feature (RF) approach is a well-established and efficient tool for scalable kernel methods, but existing literature has primarily focused on kernel ridge regression with random features (KRR-RF), which has limitations in handling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-18 Caixing Wang , Xingdong Feng

Random features are a powerful technique for rewriting positive-definite kernels as linear products. They bring linear tools to bear in important nonlinear domains like KNNs and attention. Unfortunately, practical implementations require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Luke Sernau , Silvano Bonacina , Rif A. Saurous

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

Random Fourier features (RFFs) provide a promising way for kernel learning in a spectral case. Current RFFs-based kernel learning methods usually work in a two-stage way. In the first-stage process, learning the optimal feature map is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kun Fang , Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

In this paper, we propose a fast surrogate leverage weighted sampling strategy to generate refined random Fourier features for kernel approximation. Compared to the current state-of-the-art method that uses the leverage weighted scheme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Yudong Chen , Jie Yang , Johan A. K. Suykens

Kernel methods, particularly kernel ridge regression (KRR), are time-proven, powerful nonparametric regression techniques known for their rich capacity, analytical simplicity, and computational tractability. The analysis of their predictive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Xin Bing , Xin He , Chao Wang

Low-rank approximations are popular methods to reduce the high computational cost of algorithms involving large-scale kernel matrices. The success of low-rank methods hinges on the matrix rank of the kernel matrix, and in practice, these…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ruoxi Wang , Yingzhou Li , Eric Darve

In the quest for quantum advantage, a central question is under what conditions can classical algorithms achieve a performance comparable to quantum algorithms--a concept known as dequantization. Random Fourier features (RFFs) have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Mehrad Sahebi , Alice Barthe , Yudai Suzuki , Zoë Holmes , Michele Grossi

Quantum kernel method is a machine learning model exploiting quantum computers to calculate the quantum kernels (QKs) that measure the similarity between data. Despite the potential quantum advantage of the method, the commonly used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Yudai Suzuki , Hideaki Kawaguchi , Naoki Yamamoto

Simulating a Gaussian process requires sampling from a high-dimensional Gaussian distribution, which scales cubically with the number of sample locations. Spectral methods address this challenge by exploiting the Fourier representation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-27 Arsalan Jawaid , Abdullah Karatas , Jörg Seewig

We consider the problem of improving kernel approximation via randomized feature maps. These maps arise as Monte Carlo approximation to integral representations of kernel functions and scale up kernel methods for larger datasets. Based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Marina Munkhoeva , Yermek Kapushev , Evgeny Burnaev , Ivan Oseledets