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The general perception is that kernel methods are not scalable, and neural nets are the methods of choice for nonlinear learning problems. Or have we simply not tried hard enough for kernel methods? Here we propose an approach that scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Bo Dai , Bo Xie , Niao He , Yingyu Liang , Anant Raj , Maria-Florina Balcan , Le Song

This paper presents a kernel-based discriminative learning framework on probability measures. Rather than relying on large collections of vectorial training examples, our framework learns using a collection of probability distributions that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-15 Krikamol Muandet , Kenji Fukumizu , Francesco Dinuzzo , Bernhard Schölkopf

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

Machine learning and quantum computing are two technologies each with the potential for altering how computation is performed to address previously untenable problems. Kernel methods for machine learning are ubiquitous for pattern…

The support vector machine (SVM) is a popular machine learning classification method which produces a nonlinear decision boundary in a feature space by constructing linear boundaries in a transformed Hilbert space. It is well known that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Rupak Chatterjee , Ting Yu

This article proposes a performance analysis of kernel least squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs) based on a random matrix approach, in the regime where both the dimension of data $p$ and their number $n$ grow large at the same rate.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-09 Zhenyu Liao , Romain Couillet

Kernel methods are powerful tools in statistical learning, but their cubic complexity in the sample size n limits their use on large-scale datasets. In this work, we introduce a scalable framework for kernel regression with O(n log n)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Nathan Doumèche , Francis Bach , Gérard Biau , Claire Boyer

Kernel methods are fundamental tools in machine learning that allow detection of non-linear dependencies between data without explicitly constructing feature vectors in high dimensional spaces. A major disadvantage of kernel methods is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Thomas D. Ahle , Michael Kapralov , Jakob B. T. Knudsen , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker , David Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

The kernel support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most widely used classification methods; however, the amount of computation required becomes the bottleneck when facing millions of samples. In this paper, we propose and analyze a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-06 Cho-Jui Hsieh , Si Si , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are among the most popular and the best performing classification algorithms. Various approaches have been proposed to reduce the high computation and memory cost when training and predicting based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Chen Jiang , Qingna Li

When neural circuits learn to perform a task, it is often the case that there are many sets of synaptic connections that are consistent with the task. However, only a small number of possible solutions are robust to noise in the input and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Ran Rubin , Haim Sompolinsky

Quantum kernel methods, i.e., kernel methods with quantum kernels, offer distinct advantages as a hybrid quantum-classical approach to quantum machine learning (QML), including applicability to Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Daniel T. Chang

The support vector machines (SVM) is one of the most widely used and practical optimization based classification models in machine learning because of its interpretability and flexibility to produce high quality results. However, the big…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Ehsan Sadrfaridpour , Korey Palmer , Ilya Safro

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

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are well-established Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. They rely on the fact that i) linear learning can be formalized as a well-posed optimization problem; ii) non-linear learning can be brought into linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christian Gagné , Marc Schoenauer , Michèle Sebag , Marco Tomassini

Kernel-based support vector machines (SVMs) are supervised machine learning algorithms for classification and regression problems. We introduce a method to train SVMs on a D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer and study its performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Dennis Willsch , Madita Willsch , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

Quantum computing, with its potential to enhance various machine learning tasks, allows significant advancements in kernel calculation and model precision. Utilizing the one-class Support Vector Machine alongside a quantum kernel, known for…

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are powerful learners that have led to state-of-the-art results in various computer vision problems. SVMs suffer from various drawbacks in terms of selecting the right kernel, which depends on the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Gemma Roig , Xavier Boix , Luc Van Gool

Although support vector machines (SVMs) are theoretically well understood, their underlying optimization problem becomes very expensive, if, for example, hundreds of thousands of samples and a non-linear kernel are considered. Several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-09 Philipp Thomann , Ingrid Blaschzyk , Mona Meister , Ingo Steinwart

In many applications, input data are sampled functions taking their values in infinite dimensional spaces rather than standard vectors. This fact has complex consequences on data analysis algorithms that motivate modifications of them. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabrice Rossi , Nathalie Villa