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Transfer learning can address the learning tasks of unlabeled data in the target domain by leveraging plenty of labeled data from a different but related source domain. A core issue in transfer learning is to learn a shared feature space in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Peng Xu , Zhaohong Deng , Jun Wang , Qun Zhang , Shitong Wang

Estimating the score, i.e., the gradient of log density function, from a set of samples generated by an unknown distribution is a fundamental task in inference and learning of probabilistic models that involve flexible yet intractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Yuhao Zhou , Jiaxin Shi , Jun Zhu

It is well known that kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a popular nonparametric regression estimator. Nonetheless, in the presence of a large data set with size $n\gg 1,$ the KRR estimator has the drawback to require an intensive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Asma Ben Saber , Abderrazek Karoui

In the transductive setting, where the full graph is observed but node labels are only partially available, progress in semi-supervised node classification has largely focused on architectural innovation. In this paper, we revisit an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Brown Zaz , Mar Gonzàlez I Català , Ferran Hernandez Caralt , Moshe Eliasof , Pietro Liò

This paper proposes a method for machine learning from unlabeled data in the form of a time-series. The mapping that is learned is shown to extract slowly evolving information that would be useful for control applications, while efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Per Rutquist

The generalization performance of kernel methods is largely determined by the kernel, but common kernels are stationary thus input-independent and output-independent, that limits their applications on complicated tasks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

This paper presents an algorithm for the unsupervised learning of latent variable models from unlabeled sets of data. We base our technique on spectral decomposition, providing a technique that proves to be robust both in theory and in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-05 Matteo Ruffini , Marta Casanellas , Ricard Gavaldà

Kernels are powerful and versatile tools in machine learning and statistics. Although the notion of universal kernels and characteristic kernels has been studied, kernel selection still greatly influences the empirical performance. While…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 Chun-Liang Li , Wei-Cheng Chang , Youssef Mroueh , Yiming Yang , Barnabás Póczos

This paper considers the problem of kernel regression and classification with possibly unobservable response variables in the data, where the mechanism that causes the absence of information is unknown and can depend on both predictors and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Majid Mojirsheibani , William Pouliot , Andre Shakhbandaryan

Kernel methods, particularly kernel ridge regression (KRR), are time-proven, powerful nonparametric regression techniques known for their rich capacity, analytical simplicity, and computational tractability. The analysis of their predictive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Xin Bing , Xin He , Chao Wang

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

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) uses unlabeled data during training to learn better models. Previous studies on SSL for medical image segmentation focused mostly on improving model generalization to unseen data. In some applications,…

This paper investigates the convergence properties of spectral algorithms -- a class of regularization methods originating from inverse problems -- under covariate shift. In this setting, the marginal distributions of inputs differ between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-08 Ren-Rui Liu , Zheng-Chu Guo

Despite classical statistical theory predicting severe overfitting, modern massively overparameterized neural networks still generalize well. This unexpected property is attributed to the network's so-called implicit bias, which describes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Justin Sahs , Ryan Pyle , Fabio Anselmi , Ankit Patel

Graph neural networks have pushed state-of-the-arts in graph classifications recently. Typically, these methods are studied within the context of supervised end-to-end training, which necessities copious task-specific labels. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiao Luo , Yusheng Zhao , Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Ming Zhang

The asymptotically precise estimation of the generalization of kernel methods has recently received attention due to the parallels between neural networks and their associated kernels. However, prior works derive such estimates for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Maksim Velikanov , Maxim Panov , Dmitry Yarotsky

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a framework that utilizes both labeled and unlabeled data to enhance model performance. Conventional SSL methods operate under the assumption that labeled and unlabeled data share the same label space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Noam Fluss , Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

We propose and analyze a novel framework for learning sparse representations, based on two statistical techniques: kernel smoothing and marginal regression. The proposed approach provides a flexible framework for incorporating feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-10-04 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Kai Yu , Guy Lebanon

Recent work on curvilinear structure segmentation has mostly focused on backbone network design and loss engineering. The challenge of collecting labelled data, an expensive and labor intensive process, has been overlooked. While labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Xun Xu , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Yasin Yazici , Kangkang Lu , Hlaing Min , Chuan-Sheng Foo

We study the task of unsupervised domain adaptation, where no labeled data from the target domain is provided during training time. To deal with the potential discrepancy between the source and target distributions, both in features and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Cuong D. Tran , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic