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We propose a novel test procedure for comparing mean functions across two groups within the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) framework. Our proposed method is adept at handling sparsely and irregularly sampled functional data when…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-29 Chi Zhang , Peijun Sang , Yingli Qin

For a certain scaling of the initialization of stochastic gradient descent (SGD), wide neural networks (NN) have been shown to be well approximated by reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods. Recent empirical work showed that, for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-12 Behrooz Ghorbani , Song Mei , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Andrea Montanari

The study of Neural Tangent Kernels (NTKs) has provided much needed insight into convergence and generalization properties of neural networks in the over-parametrized (wide) limit by approximating the network using a first-order Taylor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-02 Alistair Shilton , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh

Traditional machine learning models, particularly neural networks, are rooted in finite-dimensional parameter spaces and nonlinear function approximations. This report explores an alternative formulation where learning tasks are expressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Andrew Kiruluta , Andreas Lemos , Priscilla Burity

This paper studies convergence rates for some value function approximations that arise in a collection of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) $H(\Omega)$. By casting an optimal control problem in a specific class of native spaces,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Ali Bouland , Shengyuan Niu , Sai Tej Paruchuri , Andrew Kurdila , John Burns , Eugenio Schuster

Data-driven spectral analysis of Koopman operators is a powerful tool for understanding numerous real-world dynamical systems, from neuronal activity to variations in sea surface temperature. The Koopman operator acts on a function space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Nicolas Boullé , Matthew J. Colbrook , Gustav Conradie

We introduce a functional gradient descent trajectory optimization algorithm for robot motion planning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHSs). Functional gradient algorithms are a popular choice for motion planning in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Zita Marinho , Anca Dragan , Arun Byravan , Byron Boots , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Geoffrey Gordon

We present a general framework to learn functions in tensor product reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (TP-RKHSs). The methodology is based on a novel representer theorem suitable for existing as well as new spectral penalties for tensors.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Marco Signoretto , Lieven De Lathauwer , Johan A. K. Suykens

Multidimensional function data arise from many fields nowadays. The covariance function plays an important role in the analysis of such increasingly common data. In this paper, we propose a novel nonparametric covariance function estimation…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-14 Jiayi Wang , Raymond K. W. Wong , Xiaoke Zhang

For many machine learning problem settings, particularly with structured inputs such as sequences or sets of objects, a distance measure between inputs can be specified more naturally than a feature representation. However, most standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Lingfei Wu , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Fangli Xu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Michael Witbrock

Kernel methods approximate nonlinear maps in a data-driven manner by projecting the target map onto a finite-dimensional Hilbert space called the solution space. Traditionally, this space is a subspace of a fixed ambient reproducing kernel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tamás Dózsa , Andrea Angino , Zoltán Szabó , József Bokor , Matthias Voigt

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) play an important role in many statistics and machine learning applications ranging from support vector machines to Gaussian processes and kernel embeddings of distributions. Operators acting on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Mattes Mollenhauer , Ingmar Schuster , Stefan Klus , Christof Schütte

Ridgeless regression has garnered attention among researchers, particularly in light of the ``Benign Overfitting'' phenomenon, where models interpolating noisy samples demonstrate robust generalization. However, kernel ridgeless regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fan He , Mingzhen He , Lei Shi , Xiaolin Huang , Johan A. K. Suykens

This paper addresses the problem of regression to reconstruct functions, which are observed with superimposed errors at random locations. We address the problem in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. It is demonstrated that the estimator,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Paul Dommel , Alois Pichler

The existing research on spectral algorithms, applied within a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), has primarily focused on general kernel functions, often neglecting the inherent structure of the input feature space. Our paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Weichun Xia , Lei Shi

Various methods in statistical learning build on kernels considered in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In applications, the kernel is often selected based on characteristics of the problem and the data. This kernel is then employed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Paul Dommel , Alois Pichler

In this paper, we develop a generalized theory of convolutional signal processing and neural networks for Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS). Leveraging the theory of algebraic signal processing (ASP), we show that any RKHS allows the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Alejandro Parada-Mayorga , Leopoldo Agorio , Alejandro Ribeiro , Juan Bazerque

Function regression/approximation is a fundamental application of machine learning. Neural networks (NNs) can be easily trained for function regression using a sufficient number of neurons and epochs. The forward-forward learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shivam Padmani , Akshay Joshi

A neural architecture with randomly initialized weights, in the infinite width limit, is equivalent to a Gaussian Random Field whose covariance function is the so-called Neural Network Gaussian Process kernel (NNGP). We prove that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Rustem Takhanov

A model for the prediction of functional time series is introduced, where observations are assumed to be continuous random functions. We model the dependence of the data with a nonstandard autoregressive structure, motivated in terms of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-03 Beatriz Bueno-Larraz , Johannes Klepsch