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Characterizing the function spaces defined by neural networks helps understanding the corresponding learning models and their inductive bias. While in some limits neural networks correspond to function spaces that are Hilbert spaces, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-22 Francesca Bartolucci , Ernesto De Vito , Lorenzo Rosasco , Stefano Vigogna

Recently, there has been emerging interest in constructing reproducing kernel Banach spaces (RKBS) for applied and theoretical purposes such as machine learning, sampling reconstruction, sparse approximation and functional analysis.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Rongrong Lin , Haizhang Zhang , Jun Zhang

We consider the problem of learning functions within the $\mathcal{F}_{p,\pi}$ and Barron spaces, which play crucial roles in understanding random feature models (RFMs), two-layer neural networks, as well as kernel methods. Leveraging tools…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-12 Hongrui Chen , Jihao Long , Lei Wu

We propose kernel distributionally robust optimization (Kernel DRO) using insights from the robust optimization theory and functional analysis. Our method uses reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) to construct a wide range of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Jia-Jie Zhu , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Moritz Diehl , Bernhard Schölkopf

This article studies constructions of reproducing kernel Banach spaces (RKBSs) which may be viewed as a generalization of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). A key point is to endow Banach spaces with reproducing kernels such that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Yuesheng Xu , Qi Ye

Traditional machine learning models, particularly neural networks, are rooted in finite-dimensional parameter spaces and nonlinear function approximations. This report explores an alternative formulation where learning tasks are expressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Andrew Kiruluta , Andreas Lemos , Priscilla Burity

To characterize the function space explored by neural networks (NNs) is an important aspect of learning theory. In this work, noticing that a multi-layer NN generates implicitly a hierarchy of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhengdao Chen

This paper generalizes regularized regression problems in a hyper-reproducing kernel Hilbert space (hyper-RKHS), illustrates its utility for kernel learning and out-of-sample extensions, and proves asymptotic convergence results for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Fanghui Liu , Lei Shi , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang , Johan A. K. Suykens

This is a tutorial and survey paper on kernels, kernel methods, and related fields. We start with reviewing the history of kernels in functional analysis and machine learning. Then, Mercer kernel, Hilbert and Banach spaces, Reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Motivated by the growing interest in representation learning approaches that uncover the latent structure of high-dimensional data, this work proposes new algorithms for reconstruction-based manifold learning within Reproducing-Kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Enrique Feito-Casares , Francisco M. Melgarejo-Meseguer , José-Luis Rojo-Álvarez

Sparsity of a learning solution is a desirable feature in machine learning. Certain reproducing kernel Banach spaces (RKBSs) are appropriate hypothesis spaces for sparse learning methods. The goal of this paper is to understand what kind of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Rui Wang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) are key elements of many non-parametric tools successfully used in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. In this work, we aim to address three issues of the classical RKHS based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Maria Peifer , Luiz. F. O. Chamon , Santiago Paternain , Alejandro Ribeiro

Hierarchical data pervades diverse machine learning applications, including natural language processing, computer vision, and social network analysis. Hyperbolic space, characterized by its negative curvature, has demonstrated strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Leping Si , Meimei Yang , Hui Xue , Shipeng Zhu , Pengfei Fang

In this paper, we establish a novel connection between the metric entropy growth and the embeddability of function spaces into reproducing kernel Hilbert/Banach spaces. Metric entropy characterizes the information complexity of function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yiping Lu , Daozhe Lin , Qiang Du

In this paper we study the variational problem associated to support vector regression in Banach function spaces. Using the Fenchel-Rockafellar duality theory, we give explicit formulation of the dual problem as well as of the related…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Saverio Salzo , Johan A. K. Suykens

We derive a new Rademacher complexity bound for deep neural networks using Koopman operators, group representations, and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). The proposed bound describes why the models with high-rank weight matrices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuka Hashimoto , Sho Sonoda , Isao Ishikawa , Masahiro Ikeda

This paper develops a frequentist solution to the functional calibration problem, where the value of a calibration parameter in a computer model is allowed to vary with the value of control variables in the physical system. The need of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-20 Rui Tuo , Shiyuan He , Arash Pourhabib , Yu Ding , Jianhua Z. Huang

For a certain scaling of the initialization of stochastic gradient descent (SGD), wide neural networks (NN) have been shown to be well approximated by reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods. Recent empirical work showed that, for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-12 Behrooz Ghorbani , Song Mei , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Andrea Montanari

Kernel mean embeddings, a widely used technique in machine learning, map probability distributions to elements of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). For supervised learning problems, where input-output pairs are observed, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-24 Ambrus Tamás , Balázs Csanád Csáji

In a general context of positive definite kernels $k$, we develop tools and algorithms for sampling in reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$ (RKHS). With reference to these RKHSs, our results allow inference from samples; more…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian