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The search for the optimal shape parameter for Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel approximation has been an outstanding research problem for decades. In this work, we establish a theoretical framework for this problem by leveraging a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) have been a very successful tool in various areas of machine learning. Recently, Barron spaces have been used to prove bounds on the generalisation error for neural networks. Unfortunately, Barron…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Len Spek , Tjeerd Jan Heeringa , Felix Schwenninger , Christoph Brune

This paper addresses the problem of approximating a function of bounded variation from its scattered data. Radial basis function(RBF) interpolation methods are known to approximate only functions in their native spaces, and to date, there…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Rajesh Dachiraju

We present a numerical framework for solving neural field equations on surfaces using Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation and quadrature. Neural field models describe the evolution of macroscopic brain activity, but modeling studies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Sage B Shaw , Zachary P Kilpatrick , Daniele Avitabile

Statistical machine learning plays an important role in modern statistics and computer science. One main goal of statistical machine learning is to provide universally consistent algorithms, i.e., the estimator converges in probability or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-18 Andreas Christmann , Florian Dumpert , Dao-Hong Xiang

In this work we investigate the relationship between kernel regularity and algorithmic performance in the bandit optimization of RKHS functions. While reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods traditionally rely on global kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-08 Madison Lee , Tara Javidi

Based on the variable Hilbert scale interpolation inequality bounds for the error of regularisation methods are derived under range inclusions. In this context, new formulae for the modulus of continuity of the inverse of bounded operators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-24 Markus Hegland , Bernd Hofmann

This paper constructs unique compactly supported functions in Sobolev spaces that have minimal norm, maximal support, and maximal central value, under certain renormalizations. They may serve as optimized basis functions in interpolation or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Robert Schaback

In this paper, we present a unified approach to function approximation in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) that establishes a previously unrecognized optimality property for several well-known function approximation techniques, such…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Richard J. Barton

In this paper we develop a discrete Hierarchical Basis (HB) to efficiently solve the Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation problem with variable polynomial order. The HB forms an orthogonal set and is adapted to the kernel seed function…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Julio Enrique Castrillon-Candas , Jun Li , Victor Eijkhout

We develop the convergence theory for a well-known method for the interpolation of functions on the real axis with rational functions. Precise new error estimates for the interpolant are de- rived using existing theory for trigonometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-12 Thomas Trogdon

The paper is concerned with classic kernel interpolation methods, in addition to approximation methods that are augmented by gradient measurements. To apply kernel interpolation using radial basis functions (RBFs) in a stable way, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Akil Narayan , Liang Yan , Tao Zhou

Radial basis functions (RBFs) play an important role in function interpolation, in particular in an arbitrary set of interpolation nodes. The accuracy of the interpolation depends on a parameter called the shape parameter. There are many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Maria Han Veiga , Faezeh Nassajian Mojarrad , Fatemeh Nassajian Mojarrad

In this dissertation, it is first shown that, when the radial basis function is a $p$-norm and $1 < p < 2$, interpolation is always possible when the points are all different and there are at least two of them. We then show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Brad Baxter

Gaussian Radial Basis Function (RBF) Kernels are the most-often-employed kernels in artificial intelligence and machine learning routines for providing optimally-best results in contrast to their respective counter-parts. However, a little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Himanshu Singh

Recent studies show that a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) is not a suitable space to model functions by neural networks as the curse of dimensionality (CoD) cannot be evaded when trying to approximate even a single ReLU neuron…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Fanghui Liu , Leello Dadi , Volkan Cevher

We study kernel least-squares estimation under a norm constraint. This form of regularisation is known as Ivanov regularisation and it provides better control of the norm of the estimator than the well-established Tikhonov regularisation.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Stephen Page , Steffen Grünewälder

A radial basis function (RBF) method based on matrix-valued kernels is presented and analyzed for computing two types of vector decompositions on bounded domains: one where the normal component of the divergence-free part of the field is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Francis Bach

We study the generalization error of functions that interpolate prescribed data points and are selected by minimizing a weighted norm. Under natural and general conditions, we prove that both the interpolants and their generalization errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Weilin Li