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Quantum kernel methods are a promising branch of quantum machine learning, yet their effectiveness on diverse, high-dimensional, real-world data remains unverified. Current research has largely been limited to low-dimensional or synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jiang Yuhan , Matthew Otten

Kernel methods are among the most popular techniques in machine learning. From a frequentist/discriminative perspective they play a central role in regularization theory as they provide a natural choice for the hypotheses space and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-04-17 Mauricio A. Alvarez , Lorenzo Rosasco , Neil D. Lawrence

Support vector machines and kernel methods are increasingly popular in genomics and computational biology, due to their good performance in real-world applications and strong modularity that makes them suitable to a wide range of problems,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jean-Philippe Vert

This work concerns the construction and characterization of product kernels for multivariate approximation from a finite set of discrete samples. To this end, we consider composing different component kernels, each acting on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Kristof Albrecht , Juliane Entzian , Armin Iske

We devise a new type of feedforward neural network. It is equivariant with respect to the unitary group $U(n)$. The input and output can be vectors in $\mathbb{C}^n$ with arbitrary dimension $n$. No convolution layer is required in our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Pui-Wai Ma , T. -H. Hubert Chan

Devoted to multi-task learning and structured output learning, operator-valued kernels provide a flexible tool to build vector-valued functions in the context of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. To scale up these methods, we extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Romain Brault , Florence d'Alché-Buc , Markus Heinonen

We provide a characterization for the continuous positive definite kernels on $\mathbb R^d$ that are invariant to linear isometries, i.e. invariant under the orthogonal group $O(d)$. Furthermore, we provide necessary and sufficient…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Felix Benning , Max David Schölpple

The success of kernel-based learning methods depend on the choice of kernel. Recently, kernel learning methods have been proposed that use data to select the most appropriate kernel, usually by combining a set of base kernels. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Arash Afkanpour , Csaba Szepesvari , Michael Bowling

We discuss the structure of positive definite kernels in terms of operator models. In particular, we introduce two models, one of Hessenberg type and another one that we call near triangular. These models produce parametrizations of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Constantinescu , Nermine El-Sissi

Implicit neural representations (INRs), which leverage neural networks to represent signals by mapping coordinates to their corresponding attributes, have garnered significant attention. They are extensively utilized for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sheng Zheng , Chaoning Zhang , Dongshen Han , Fachrina Dewi Puspitasari , Xinhong Hao , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Neural kernels have drastically increased performance on diverse and nonstandard data modalities but require significantly more compute, which previously limited their application to smaller datasets. In this work, we address this by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-10 Ben Adlam , Jaehoon Lee , Shreyas Padhy , Zachary Nado , Jasper Snoek

Motivated by applications, we introduce a general and new framework for operator valued positive definite kernels. We further give applications both to operator theory and to stochastic processes. The first one yields several dilation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , James Tian

Polynomial functions have plenty of useful analytical properties, but they are rarely used as learning models because their function class is considered to be restricted. This work shows that when trained properly polynomial functions can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Li-Ping Liu , Ruiyuan Gu , Xiaozhe Hu

Kernel theorems, in general, provide a convenient representation of bounded linear operators. For the operator acting on a concrete function space, this means that its action on any element of the space can be expressed as a generalised…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Dimitri Bytchenkoff , Michael Speckbacher , Peter Balazs

Substring kernels are classical tools for representing biological sequences or text. However, when large amounts of annotated data are available, models that allow end-to-end training such as neural networks are often preferred. Links…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-18 Dexiong Chen , Laurent Jacob , Julien Mairal

The development of methods to guide the design of neural networks is an important open challenge for deep learning theory. As a paradigm for principled neural architecture design, we propose the translation of high-performing kernels, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 James B. Simon , Sajant Anand , Michael R. DeWeese

In this paper we propose a family of tractable kernels that is dense in the family of bounded positive semi-definite functions (i.e. can approximate any bounded kernel with arbitrary precision). We start by discussing the case of stationary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-13 Yves-Laurent Kom Samo , Stephen Roberts

In recent years, there has been considerable innovation in the world of predictive methodologies. This is evident by the relative domination of machine learning approaches in various classification competitions. While these algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-12 Barinder Thind , Kevin Multani , Jiguo Cao

Kernel learning methods are among the most effective learning methods and have been vigorously studied in the past decades. However, when tackling with complicated tasks, classical kernel methods are not flexible or "rich" enough to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jiaxuan Xie , Fanghui Liu , Kaijie Wang , Xiaolin Huang

A efficient incremental learning algorithm for classification tasks, called NetLines, well adapted for both binary and real-valued input patterns is presented. It generates small compact feedforward neural networks with one hidden layer of…

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