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Variational methods are widely used for approximate posterior inference. However, their use is typically limited to families of distributions that enjoy particular conjugacy properties. To circumvent this limitation, we propose a family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Samuel Gershman , Matt Hoffman , David Blei

The Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) has discovered connections between deep neural networks and kernel methods with insights of optimization and generalization. Motivated by this, recent works report that NTK can achieve better performances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Insu Han , Haim Avron , Neta Shoham , Chaewon Kim , Jinwoo Shin

For the past 30 years or so, machine learning has stimulated a great deal of research in the study of approximation capabilities (expressive power) of a multitude of processes, such as approximation by shallow or deep neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hrushikesh Mhaskar

The convolution potential arises in a wide variety of application areas, and its efficient and accurate evaluation encounters three challenges: singularity, nonlocality and anisotropy. We introduce a fast algorithm based on a far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Xin Liu , Yong Zhang

Ridgeless regression has garnered attention among researchers, particularly in light of the ``Benign Overfitting'' phenomenon, where models interpolating noisy samples demonstrate robust generalization. However, kernel ridgeless regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fan He , Mingzhen He , Lei Shi , Xiaolin Huang , Johan A. K. Suykens

This paper addresses the problem of approximating an unknown function from point evaluations. When obtaining these point evaluations is costly, minimising the required sample size becomes crucial, and it is unreasonable to reserve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Nando Hegemann , Anthony Nouy , Philipp Trunschke

We present simple, user-friendly bounds for the expected operator norm of a random kernel matrix under general conditions on the kernel function $k(\cdot,\cdot)$. Our approach uses decoupling results for U-statistics and the non-commutative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Chiraag Kaushik , Justin Romberg , Vidya Muthukumar

We propose semi-random features for nonlinear function approximation. The flexibility of semi-random feature lies between the fully adjustable units in deep learning and the random features used in kernel methods. For one hidden layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Kenji Kawaguchi , Bo Xie , Vikas Verma , Le Song

Regularized kernel methods such as, e.g., support vector machines and least-squares support vector regression constitute an important class of standard learning algorithms in machine learning. Theoretical investigations concerning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-21 Robert Hable

Thanks to its fine balance between model flexibility and interpretability, the nonparametric additive model has been widely used, and variable selection for this type of model has been frequently studied. However, none of the existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-10 Xiaowu Dai , Xiang Lyu , Lexin Li

In this study, we consider the realm of covariance matrices in machine learning, particularly focusing on computing Fr\'echet means on the manifold of symmetric positive definite matrices, commonly referred to as Karcher or geometric means.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-06 Florent Bouchard , Ammar Mian , Malik Tiomoko , Guillaume Ginolhac , Frédéric Pascal

Recent advances in machine learning have been achieved by using overparametrized models trained until near interpolation of the training data. It was shown, e.g., through the double descent phenomenon, that the number of parameters is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-14 Hong Hu , Yue M. Lu , Theodor Misiakiewicz

We introduce a Fourier-based fast algorithm for Gaussian process regression in low dimensions. It approximates a translationally-invariant covariance kernel by complex exponentials on an equispaced Cartesian frequency grid of $M$ nodes.…

Computation · Statistics 2023-05-19 Philip Greengard , Manas Rachh , Alex Barnett

We present Simplex Random Features (SimRFs), a new random feature (RF) mechanism for unbiased approximation of the softmax and Gaussian kernels by geometrical correlation of random projection vectors. We prove that SimRFs provide the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-10 Isaac Reid , Krzysztof Choromanski , Valerii Likhosherstov , Adrian Weller

For many machine learning problem settings, particularly with structured inputs such as sequences or sets of objects, a distance measure between inputs can be specified more naturally than a feature representation. However, most standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Lingfei Wu , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Fangli Xu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Michael Witbrock

Unlike the conventional kernel adaptive filtering (KAF) approach of using a fixed kernel to define the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), this paper embeds the statistics of the input data in the kernel definition, obtaining a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Benjamin Colburn , Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Kan Li , Jose C. Principe

Approximation of scattered data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This approach is useful for a higher…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

We consider the problem of approximating a truncated Gaussian kernel using Fourier (trigonometric) functions. The computation-intensive bilateral filter can be expressed using fast convolutions by applying such an approximation to its range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-07 Sanjay Ghosh , Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

The problem of efficient approximation of a linear operator induced by the Gaussian or softmax kernel is often addressed using random features (RFs) which yield an unbiased approximation of the operator's result. Such operators emerge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Valerii Likhosherstov , Krzysztof Choromanski , Avinava Dubey , Frederick Liu , Tamas Sarlos , Adrian Weller

Quantum machine learning (QML) models often require deep, parameterized circuits to capture complex frequency components, limiting their scalability and near-term implementation. We introduce \textit{Quantum Random Features} (QRF) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Akitada Sakurai , Aoi Hayashi , William John Munro , Kae Nemoto