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Laguerre polynomials are orthogonal polynomials defined on positive half line with respect to weight $e^{-x}$. They have wide applications in scientific and engineering computations. However, the exponential growth of Laguerre polynomials…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Shenghe Huang , Haijun Yu

B-spline collocation techniques have been applied to Schr\"odinger's equation since the early 1970s, but one aspect that is noticeably missing from this literature is the use of Gaussian points (i.e., the zeros of Legendre polynomials) as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Christian P. H. Salas

This paper presents a parametric family of compactly-supported positive semidefinite kernels aimed to model the covariance structure of second-order stationary isotropic random fields defined in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Both the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Xavier Emery , Alfredo Alegría

Scatter processes of photons lead to blurring of images. Multiple scatter can usually be described by one Gaussian convolution kernel. This can be a crude approximation and we need a linear combination of 2/3 Gaussian kernels to account for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-09-20 Waldemar Ulmer

This paper proposes a novel consistent {\delta}+- Updated Lagrangian Particle Hydrodynamics (ULPH) model. Although the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model has gained recognized achievements, it is afflicted by excessive numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-13 Shi-Xian Wu , Peng-Nan Sun , Xiao-Ting Huang , Yu-Xiang Peng , Andrea Colagrossi

Despite a large corpus of recent work on scaling up Gaussian processes, a stubborn trade-off between computational speed, prediction and uncertainty quantification accuracy, and customizability persists. This is because the vast majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Marcus M. Noack , Mark D. Risser , Hengrui Luo , Vardaan Tekriwal , Ronald J. Pandolfi

Improved performance in higher-order spectral density estimation is achieved using a general class of infinite-order kernels. These estimates are asymptotically less biased but with the same order of variance as compared to the classical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Arthur Berg , Dimitris Politis

Bayesian model updating based on Gaussian Process (GP) models has received attention in recent years, which incorporates kernel-based GPs to provide enhanced fidelity response predictions. Although most kernel functions provide high fitting…

The so-called tuned-correlated kernel (sometimes also called the first-order stable spline kernel) is one of the most widely used kernels for the regularized impulse response estimation. This kernel can be derived by applying an exponential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Yusuke Fujimoto , Tianchi Chen

Various formulations of smooth-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) have been proposed, intended to resolve certain difficulties in the treatment of fluid mixing instabilities. Most have involved changes to the algorithm which either introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Philip F. Hopkins

We study the problem of the appropriate choice of the interpolating kernel to be used in the evaluation of gradients of functions. Such interpolation technique is often used in applications, e.g. it is typical for Smoothed Particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , R. Di Lisio

Most state of the art deep neural networks are overparameterized and exhibit a high computational cost. A straightforward approach to this problem is to replace convolutional kernels with its low-rank tensor approximations, whereas the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Anh-Huy Phan , Konstantin Sobolev , Konstantin Sozykin , Dmitry Ermilov , Julia Gusak , Petr Tichavsky , Valeriy Glukhov , Ivan Oseledets , Andrzej Cichocki

The family of Mat\'ern kernels are often used in spatial statistics, function approximation and Gaussian process methods in machine learning. One reason for their popularity is the presence of a smoothness parameter that controls, for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Moritz Korte-Stapff , Toni Karvonen , Eric Moulines

Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) is a machine-learning technique used for single class classification and outlier detection. SVDD formulation with kernel function provides a flexible boundary around data. The value of kernel function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Deovrat Kakde , Arin Chaudhuri , Seunghyun Kong , Maria Jahja , Hansi Jiang , Jorge Silva

The present paper proposes generalized Gaussian kernel adaptive filtering, where the kernel parameters are adaptive and data-driven. The Gaussian kernel is parametrized by a center vector and a symmetric positive definite (SPD) precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Tomoya Wada , Kosuke Fukumori , Toshihisa Tanaka , Simone Fiori

A smoothness-increasing accuracy conserving filtering approach to the regularization of discontinuities is presented for single domain spectral collocation approximations of hyperbolic conservation laws. The filter is based on convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 B. W. Wissink , G. B. Jacobs , J. K. Ryan , W. S. Don , E. T. A. van der Weide

We introduce a new scalable variational Gaussian process approximation which provides a high fidelity approximation while retaining general applicability. We propose the harmonic kernel decomposition (HKD), which uses Fourier series to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Shengyang Sun , Jiaxin Shi , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Roger Grosse

Current Lagrangian (particle-tracking) algorithms used to simulate diffusion-reaction equations must employ a certain number of particles to properly emulate the system dynamics---particularly for imperfectly-mixed systems. The number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Michael Schmidt , Stephen Pankavich , David Benson

Kernel matrices are a key quantity in kernel-based approximation, and important properties such as stability and algorithmic convergence can be analyzed with their help. In this work we refine a multivariate Ingham-type theorem, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Tizan Wenzel , Armin Iske

We investigate the discrepancy principle for choosing smoothing parameters for kernel density estimation. The method is based on the distance between the empirical and estimated distribution functions. We prove some new positive and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Thoralf Mildenberger