English
Related papers

Related papers: On the Approximation of Kernel functions

200 papers

A structure-preserving kernel ridge regression method is presented that allows the recovery of nonlinear Hamiltonian functions out of datasets made of noisy observations of Hamiltonian vector fields. The method proposes a closed-form…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Jianyu Hu , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Daiying Yin

This article gives a new insight of kernel-based (approximation) methods to solve the high-dimensional stochastic partial differential equations. We will combine the techniques of meshfree approximation and kriging interpolation to extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Qi Ye

In many applications of machine learning, a large number of variables are considered. Motivated by machine learning of interacting particle systems, we consider the situation when the number of input variables goes to infinity. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Sebastian Trimpe

In a general context of positive definite kernels $k$, we develop tools and algorithms for sampling in reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$ (RKHS). With reference to these RKHSs, our results allow inference from samples; more…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

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

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

In this work we are interested in the problems of supervised learning and variable selection when the input-output dependence is described by a nonlinear function depending on a few variables. Our goal is to consider a sparse nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-14 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Sofia Mosci , Matteo Santoro , Alessandro verri

This monograph studies the relations between two approaches using positive definite kernels: probabilistic methods using Gaussian processes, and non-probabilistic methods using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). They are widely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Motonobu Kanagawa , Philipp Hennig , Dino Sejdinovic , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Permutation-valued features arise in a variety of applications, either in a direct way when preferences are elicited over a collection of items, or an indirect way in which numerical ratings are converted to a ranking. To date, there has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-24 Horia Mania , Aaditya Ramdas , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan , Benjamin Recht

The universality properties of kernels characterize the class of functions that can be approximated in the associated reproducing kernel Hilbert space and are of fundamental importance in the theoretical underpinning of kernel methods in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Franziskus Steinert , Salem Said , Cyrus Mostajeran

We extend the herding algorithm to continuous spaces by using the kernel trick. The resulting "kernel herding" algorithm is an infinite memory deterministic process that learns to approximate a PDF with a collection of samples. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yutian Chen , Max Welling , Alex Smola

Kernel approximation methods create explicit, low-dimensional kernel feature maps to deal with the high computational and memory complexity of standard techniques. This work studies a supervised kernel learning methodology to optimize such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Mert Al , Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung

Devoted to multi-task learning and structured output learning, operator-valued kernels provide a flexible tool to build vector-valued functions in the context of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. To scale up these methods, we extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Romain Brault , Florence d'Alché-Buc , Markus Heinonen

This paper investigates the use of nonparametric kernel-regression to obtain a tasksimilarity aware meta-learning algorithm. Our hypothesis is that the use of tasksimilarity helps meta-learning when the available tasks are limited and may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Arun Venkitaraman , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

We study integration and $L^2$-approximation in the worst-case setting for deterministic linear algorithms based on function evaluations. The underlying function space is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space with a Gaussian kernel of tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Michael Gnewuch , Klaus Ritter , Robin Rüßmann

We consider supervised learning problems within the positive-definite kernel framework, such as kernel ridge regression, kernel logistic regression or the support vector machine. With kernels leading to infinite-dimensional feature spaces,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Francis Bach

Random binning features, introduced in the seminal paper of Rahimi and Recht (2007), are an efficient method for approximating a kernel matrix using locality sensitive hashing. Random binning features provide a very simple and efficient way…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-24 Michael Kapralov , Navid Nouri , Ilya Razenshteyn , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh

Kernel ridge regression is used to approximate the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in a one-dimensional box as a functional of their density. The properties of different kernels and methods of cross-validation are explored, and…

With view to applications in stochastic analysis and geometry, we introduce a new correspondence for positive definite kernels (p.d.) $K$ and their associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. With this we establish two kinds of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

Kernel methods are versatile tools for function approximation and surrogate modeling. In particular, greedy techniques offer computational efficiency and reliability through inherent sparsity and provable convergence. Inspired by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Marian Klink , Tobias Ehring , Robin Herkert , Robin Lautenschlager , Dominik Göddeke , Bernard Haasdonk