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Recently, some works have suggested methods to combine variational probabilistic inference with Monte Carlo sampling. One promising approach is via local optimal transport. In this approach, a gradient steepest descent method based on local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Manuel Pulido , Peter Jan vanLeeuwen , Derek J. Posselt

We focus on the distribution regression problem: regressing to a real-valued response from a probability distribution. Although there exist a large number of similarity measures between distributions, very little is known about their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Zoltan Szabo , Arthur Gretton , Barnabas Poczos , Bharath Sriperumbudur

Safe autonomous driving critically depends on how well the ego-vehicle can predict the trajectories of neighboring vehicles. To this end, several trajectory prediction algorithms have been presented in the existing literature. Many of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Basant Sharma , Aditya Sharma , K. Madhava Krishna , Arun Kumar Singh

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

In this article a new family of tests is proposed for the comparison problem of the equality of distribution of two-sample under right censoring scheme. The tests are based on energy distance and kernels mean embedding, are calibrated by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Marcos Matabuena

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a standard method for performing non-parametric regression over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Given $n$ samples, the time and space complexity of computing the KRR estimate scale as $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-27 Yun Yang , Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

We consider the random-design least-squares regression problem within the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) framework. Given a stream of independent and identically distributed input/output data, we aim to learn a regression function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Aymeric Dieuleveut , Francis Bach

With the widespread application of causal inference, it is increasingly important to have tools which can test for the presence of causal effects in a diverse array of circumstances. In this vein we focus on the problem of testing for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-08 Jake Fawkes , Robert Hu , Robin J. Evans , Dino Sejdinovic

The reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embedding method is a recently introduced estimation approach that seeks to identify the unknown or uncertain function in the governing equations of a nonlinear set of ordinary differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Jia Guo , Sai Tej Paruchuri , Andrew J. Kurdila

We investigate regularized algorithms combining with projection for least-squares regression problem over a Hilbert space, covering nonparametric regression over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We prove convergence results with respect…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-09 Junhong Lin , Volkan Cevher

Regularization is used to find a solution that both fits the data and is sufficiently smooth, and thereby is very effective for designing and refining learning algorithms. But the influence of its exponent remains poorly understood. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-15 Julien Audiffren , Hachem Kadri

The maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) is a recently proposed test statistic for two-sample test. Its quadratic time complexity, however, greatly hampers its availability to large-scale applications. To accelerate the MMD calculation, in this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Ji Zhao , Deyu Meng

We study the problem of nonparametric two-sample testing using the sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance. While prior theoretical and empirical work indicates that the SW distance offers a promising balance between strong statistical guarantees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-03 Binh Thuan Tran , Nicolas Schreuder

We develop a novel framework for sparse multiscale kernel approximation of large scattered data problems based on a samplet representation. Samplets form a multiresolution analysis of localized discrete signed measures and enable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Sara Avesani , Gaia Fumagalli , Michael Multerer , Chiara Segala

In this paper we deal with the problem of testing for the equality of $k$ probability distributions defined on $(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{B})$, where $\mathcal{X}$ is a metric space and $\mathcal{B}$ is the corresponding Borel $\sigma$-field.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Armando Sosthene Kali Balogoun , Guy Martial Nkiet , Carlos Ogouyandjou

We focus on the distribution regression problem: regressing to vector-valued outputs from probability measures. Many important machine learning and statistical tasks fit into this framework, including multi-instance learning and point…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Zoltan Szabo , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Barnabas Poczos , Arthur Gretton

Nonparametric tests via kernel embedding of distributions have witnessed a great deal of practical successes in recent years. However, statistical properties of these tests are largely unknown beyond consistency against a fixed alternative.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Tong Li , Ming Yuan

We study the risk of minimum-norm interpolants of data in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. Our upper bounds on the risk are of a multiple-descent shape for the various scalings of $d = n^{\alpha}$, $\alpha\in(0,1)$, for the input…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Tengyuan Liang , Alexander Rakhlin , Xiyu Zhai

We construct a Wasserstein gradient flow of the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) and study its convergence properties. The MMD is an integral probability metric defined for a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), and serves as a metric on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-04 Michael Arbel , Anna Korba , Adil Salim , Arthur Gretton

We use a suitable version of the so-called "kernel trick" to devise two-sample (homogeneity) tests, especially focussed on high-dimensional and functional data. Our proposal entails a simplification related to the important practical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Javier Cárcamo , Antonio Cuevas , Luis-Alberto Rodríguez