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Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is widely used for nonparametric regression over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. It offers powerful modeling capabilities at the cost of significant computational costs, which typically require $O(n^3)$…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-18 Xiaowu Dai , Huiying Zhong

We study feature learning in a compositional variant of kernel ridge regression in which the predictor is applied to a learnable linear transformation of the input. When the response depends on the input only through a low-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Yunlu Chen , Yang Li , Keli Liu , Feng Ruan

In this article, we show that solving the system of linear equations by manipulating the kernel and the range space is equivalent to solving the problem of least squares error approximation. This establishes the ground for a gradient-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Kar-Ann Toh , Zhiping Lin , Zhengguo Li , Beomseok Oh , Lei Sun

Multiple Kernel Learning, or MKL, extends (kernelized) SVM by attempting to learn not only a classifier/regressor but also the best kernel for the training task, usually from a combination of existing kernel functions. Most MKL methods seek…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-07 John Moeller , Sarathkrishna Swaminathan , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

The huge amount of available data nowadays is a challenge for kernel-based machine learning algorithms like SVMs with respect to runtime and storage capacities. Local approaches might help to relieve these issues and to improve statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-05 Florian Dumpert

Learning classifiers that are robust to adversarial examples has received a great deal of recent attention. A major drawback of the standard robust learning framework is there is an artificial robustness radius $r$ that applies to all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Robi Bhattacharjee , Kamalika Chaudhuri

An asymptotic theory is established for linear functionals of the predictive function given by kernel ridge regression, when the reproducing kernel Hilbert space is equivalent to a Sobolev space. The theory covers a wide variety of linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Rui Tuo , Lu Zou

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

We propose and analyze a kernelized version of Q-learning. Although a kernel space is typically infinite-dimensional, extensive study has shown that generalization is only affected by the effective dimension of the data. We incorporate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shuang Liu , Hao Su

Kernel density estimation is a key component of a wide variety of algorithms in machine learning, Bayesian inference, stochastic dynamics and signal processing. However, the unsupervised density estimation technique requires tuning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sunia Tanweer , Firas A. Khasawneh

We propose a simple architecture for deep reinforcement learning by embedding inputs into a learned Fourier basis and show that it improves the sample efficiency of both state-based and image-based RL. We perform infinite-width analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Alexander C. Li , Deepak Pathak

This paper generalizes recent advances on quadratic manifold (QM) dimensionality reduction by developing kernel methods-based nonlinear-augmentation dimensionality reduction. QMs, and more generally feature map-based nonlinear corrections,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alejandro N. Diaz , Jacob T. Needels , Irina K. Tezaur , Patrick J. Blonigan

Kernel regression is a popular non-parametric fitting technique. It aims at learning a function which estimates the targets for test inputs as precise as possible. Generally, the function value for a test input is estimated by a weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Rongqing Huang , Shiliang Sun

The pursuit of energy-efficient and adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) has positioned neuromorphic computing as a promising alternative to conventional computing. However, achieving learning on these platforms requires techniques that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jesús García Fernández , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven

Kernel adaptive filters, a class of adaptive nonlinear time-series models, are known by their ability to learn expressive autoregressive patterns from sequential data. However, for trivial monotonic signals, they struggle to perform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-14 Felipe Tobar

The performance of reproducing kernel Hilbert space-based methods is known to be sensitive to the choice of the reproducing kernel. Choosing an adequate reproducing kernel can be challenging and computationally demanding, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Emilio Ruiz-Moreno , Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

Kernel methods are typically formulated under the assumption of exact, noise-free access to the Gram matrix. However, in emerging settings such as quantum machine learning, each kernel entry must be inferred from noisy observations, and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Artur Miroszewski

The random Fourier features (RFFs) method is a powerful and popular technique in kernel approximation for scalability of kernel methods. The theoretical foundation of RFFs is based on the Bochner theorem that relates symmetric, positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mingzhen He , Fan He , Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang

Panel-based, kernel-split quadrature is currently one of the most efficient methods available for accurate evaluation of singular and nearly singular layer potentials in two dimensions. However, it can fail completely for the layer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Fredrik Fryklund , Ludvig af Klinteberg , Anna-Karin Tornberg

In machine learning, a critical class of decision-related problems concerns preventing predicted undesirable outcomes, referred to as the \textit{avoiding undesired future} (AUF) problem. To address this, the \textit{rehearsal learning}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wen-Bo Du , Tian-Zuo Wang , Han-Jia Ye , Zhi-Hua Zhou