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Kernel methods give powerful, flexible, and theoretically grounded approaches to solving many problems in machine learning. The standard approach, however, requires pairwise evaluations of a kernel function, which can lead to scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Danica J. Sutherland , Jeff Schneider

The problem of learning functions over spaces of probabilities - or distribution regression - is gaining significant interest in the machine learning community. A key challenge behind this problem is to identify a suitable representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-20 Dimitri Meunier , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

In many contemporary statistical and machine learning methods, one needs to optimize an objective function that depends on the discrepancy between two probability distributions. The discrepancy can be referred to as a metric for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yijin Ni , Xiaoming Huo

A key challenge in probabilistic regression is ensuring that predictive distributions accurately reflect true empirical uncertainty. Minimizing overall prediction error often encourages models to prioritize informativeness over calibration,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Ádám Jung , Domokos M. Kelen , András A. Benczúr

We study the comparison problem of distribution equality between two random samples under a right censoring scheme. To address this problem, we design a series of tests based on energy distance and kernel mean embeddings. We calibrate our…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-10 Marcos Matabuena , Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla

In this article we study the field of Hilbertian metrics and positive definit (pd) kernels on probability measures, they have a real interest in kernel methods. Firstly we will make a study based on the Alpha-Beta-divergence to have a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-18 Mactar Ndaw , Macoumba Ndour , Papa Ngom

We extend the herding algorithm to continuous spaces by using the kernel trick. The resulting "kernel herding" algorithm is an infinite memory deterministic process that learns to approximate a PDF with a collection of samples. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yutian Chen , Max Welling , Alex Smola

Kernel-based quadrature rules are becoming important in machine learning and statistics, as they achieve super-$\sqrt{n}$ convergence rates in numerical integration, and thus provide alternatives to Monte Carlo integration in challenging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-31 Motonobu Kanagawa , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu

Kernel methods are one of the cornerstones of learning-based control, modern system identification, surrogate modelling, and related fields. A key advantage of this class of learning and function approximation methods is the availability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Tizian Wenzel , Abdullah Tokmak , Christian Fiedler

Both biological and artificial neural networks inherently balance their performance with their operational cost, which balances their computational abilities. Typically, an efficient neuromorphic neural network is one that learns…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-25 Hugo J. Ladret , Christian Casanova , Laurent Udo Perrinet

In this paper, we consider the nonparametric estimation of the multivariate probability density function and its partial derivative with a support on $[0,\infty)$. To this end we use the class of kernel estimators with asymmetric gamma…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-27 L. A. Markovich

We study strictly proper scoring rules in the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. We propose a general Kernel Scoring rule and associated Kernel Divergence. We consider conditions under which the Kernel Score is strictly proper. We then…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-25 Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi

Matrix approximations are a key element in large-scale algebraic machine learning approaches. The recently proposed method MEKA (Si et al., 2014) effectively employs two common assumptions in Hilbert spaces: the low-rank property of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Simon Heilig , Maximilian Münch , Frank-Michael Schleif

Envelope methods improve the estimation efficiency in multivariate linear regression by identifying and separating the material and immaterial parts of the responses or the predictors and estimating the regression coefficients using only…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-10 Tate Jacobson

A delayed-acceptance version of a Metropolis--Hastings algorithm can be useful for Bayesian inference when it is computationally expensive to calculate the true posterior, but a computationally cheap approximation is available; the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Chris Sherlock , Anthony Lee

Adaptive experiments improve efficiency by adjusting treatment assignments based on past outcomes, but this adaptivity breaks the i.i.d.\ assumptions that underpin classical asymptotics. At the same time, many questions of interest are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Houssam Zenati , Bariscan Bozkurt , Arthur Gretton

Modern datasets across many disciplines increasingly consist of time-evolving, potentially infinite-dimensional random objects, such as dynamic functional data, which are naturally modeled in Hilbert spaces. In these settings,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Daniel López-Montero , Antonio Álvarez-López , Marcos Matabuena

Kernel methods are powerful for machine learning, as they can represent data in feature spaces that similarities between samples may be faithfully captured. Recently, it is realized that machine learning enhanced by quantum computing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Long Hin Li , Dan-Bo Zhang , Z. D. Wang

This paper studies kernel ridge regression in high dimensions under covariate shifts and analyzes the role of importance re-weighting. We first derive the asymptotic expansion of high dimensional kernels under covariate shifts. By a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-06 Yihang Chen , Fanghui Liu , Taiji Suzuki , Volkan Cevher