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Herding and kernel herding are deterministic methods of choosing samples which summarise a probability distribution. A related task is choosing samples for estimating integrals using Bayesian quadrature. We show that the criterion minimised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-18 Ferenc Huszár , David Duvenaud

We give two new global and algorithmic constructions of the reproducing kernel Hilbert space associated to a positive definite kernel. We further present ageneral positive definite kernel setting using bilinear forms, and we provide new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen

This paper develops a novel mathematical framework for collaborative learning by means of geometrically inspired kernel machines which includes statements on the bounds of generalisation and approximation errors, and sample complexity. For…

Over the last decade, kernel methods for nonlinear processing have successfully been used in the machine learning community. The primary mathematical tool employed in these methods is the notion of the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Pantelis Bouboulis , Sergios Theodoridis

A nearly optimal explicitly-sparse representation for oscillatory kernels is presented in this work by developing a curvelet based method. Multilevel curvelet-like functions are constructed as the transform of the original nodal basis. Then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Yanchuang Cao , Jun Liu , Dawei Chen

This paper presents a new algorithm for generating random inverse-Wishart matrices that directly generates the Cholesky factor of the matrix without computing the factorization. Whenever parameterized in terms of a precision matrix…

Computation · Statistics 2023-10-25 Seth D. Axen

In classical frameworks as the Euclidean space, positive definite kernels as well as their analytic properties are explicitly available and can be incorporated directly in kernel-based learning algorithms. This is different if the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Wolfgang Erb

We introduce scalable deep kernels, which combine the structural properties of deep learning architectures with the non-parametric flexibility of kernel methods. Specifically, we transform the inputs of a spectral mixture base kernel with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Andrew Gordon Wilson , Zhiting Hu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric P. Xing

This paper proposes that Lipschitz continuity is a natural outcome of regularized least squares in kernel-based learning. Lipschitz continuity is an important proxy for robustness of input-output operators. It is also instrumental for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Henk J. van Waarde , Rodolphe Sepulchre

This works extends the Random Embedding Bayesian Optimization approach by integrating a warping of the high dimensional subspace within the covariance kernel. The proposed warping, that relies on elementary geometric considerations, allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Mickaël Binois , David Ginsbourger , Olivier Roustant

Much recent work has addressed the solution of a family of partial differential equations by computing the inverse operator map between the input and solution space. Toward this end, we incorporate function-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Kaijun Bao , Xu Qian , Ziyuan Liu , Songhe Song

Convolutional neural networks have shown great success on feature extraction from raw input data such as images. Although convolutional neural networks are invariant to translations on the inputs, they are not invariant to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Hongyang Gao , Shuiwang Ji

The theory of positive kernels and associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, especially in the setting of holomorphic functions, has been an important tool for the last several decades in a number of areas of complex analysis and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Joseph A. Ball , Gregory Marx , Victor Vinnikov

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

The modified Cholesky decomposition is commonly used for precision matrix estimation given a specified order of random variables. However, the order of variables is often not available or cannot be pre-determined. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-23 Xiaoning Kang , Xinwei Deng

Kernel methods are one of the cornerstones of learning-based control, modern system identification, surrogate modelling, and related fields. A key advantage of this class of learning and function approximation methods is the availability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Tizian Wenzel , Abdullah Tokmak , Christian Fiedler

In this paper, we consider two fundamental symmetric kernels in linear algebra: the Cholesky factorization and the symmetric rank-$k$ update (SYRK), with the classical three nested loops algorithms for these kernels. In addition, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Olivier Beaumont , Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Mathieu Vérité , Julien Langou

The rate of convergence of weighted kernel herding (WKH) and sequential Bayesian quadrature (SBQ), two kernel-based sampling algorithms for estimating integrals with respect to some target probability measure, is investigated. Under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Rajiv Khanna , Liam Hodgkinson , Michael W. Mahoney

A well-recognized limitation of kernel learning is the requirement to handle a kernel matrix, whose size is quadratic in the number of training examples. Many methods have been proposed to reduce this computational cost, mostly by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yishay Mansour , Ohad Shamir

The fast computation of large kernel sums is a challenging task, which arises as a subproblem in any kernel method. We approach the problem by slicing, which relies on random projections to one-dimensional subspaces and fast Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Johannes Hertrich , Tim Jahn , Michael Quellmalz