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We construct in the small-time setting the upper and lower estimates for the transition probability density of a L\'evy process in $\rn$. Our approach relies on the complex analysis technique and the asymptotic analysis of the inverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-29 V. Knopova

We propose an improved estimator for the multi-task averaging problem, whose goal is the joint estimation of the means of multiple distributions using separate, independent data sets. The naive approach is to take the empirical mean of each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Hannah Marienwald , Jean-Baptiste Fermanian , Gilles Blanchard

In this paper we analyze a greedy procedure to approximate a linear functional defined in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space by nodal values. This procedure computes a quadrature rule which can be applied to general functionals, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Gabriele Santin , Toni Karvonen , Bernard Haasdonk

Given additional distributional information in the form of moment restrictions, kernel density and distribution function estimators with implied generalised empirical likelihood probabilities as weights achieve a reduction in variance due…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-08 Vitaliy Oryshchenko , Richard J. Smith

Some convergence results on the kernel density estimator are proven for a class of linear processes with cyclical effects. In particular we extend the results of Ho and Hsing (1996a) and Mielniczuk (1997) to the stationary processes for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-18 Mohamedou Ould Haye , Anne Philippe

The density function of the limiting spectral distribution of general sample covariance matrices is usually unknown. We propose to use kernel estimators which are proved to be consistent. A simulation study is also conducted to show the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Bing-Yi Jing , Guangming Pan , Qi-Man Shao , Wang Zhou

Kernel density estimation is a widely used nonparametric approach to estimate an unknown distribution. Recent work in Bayesian predictive inference has considered stochastic processes formed by specifying the predictive distribution for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Torey Hilbert

We use a support vector regressor based on a projected quantum kernel method to predict the density structure of 1D fermionic systems of interest in quantum chemistry and quantum matter. The kernel is built on with the observables of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Francesco Perciavalle , Francesco Plastina , Michele Pisarra , Nicola Lo Gullo

Kernel matrices, as well as weighted graphs represented by them, are ubiquitous objects in machine learning, statistics and other related fields. The main drawback of using kernel methods (learning and inference using kernel matrices) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ainesh Bakshi , Piotr Indyk , Praneeth Kacham , Sandeep Silwal , Samson Zhou

A kernel method is proposed to estimate the condensed density of the generalized eigenvalues of pencils of Hankel matrices whose elements have a joint noncentral Gaussian distribution with nonidentical covariance. These pencils arise when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Piero Barone

A mean function in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), or a kernel mean, is central to kernel methods in that it is used by many classical algorithms such as kernel principal component analysis, and it also forms the core inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-26 Krikamol Muandet , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu , Arthur Gretton , Bernhard Schölkopf

Let $(X_1,\ldots ,X_n)$ be an i.i.d. sequence of random variables in $\R^d$, $d\geq 1$, for some function $\varphi:\R^d\r \R$, under regularity conditions, we show that \begin{align*} n^{1/2} \left(n^{-1} \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\varphi(X_i)}{\w…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Bernard Delyon , François Portier

Kernel mean embeddings -- integrals of a kernel with respect to a probability distribution -- are essential in Bayesian quadrature, but also widely used in other computational tools for numerical integration or for statistical inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 François-Xavier Briol , Alexandra Gessner , Toni Karvonen , Maren Mahsereci

The paper considers probability distribution, density, conditional distribution and density and conditional moments as well as their kernel estimators in spaces of generalized functions. This approach does not require restrictions on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-07 Victoria Zinde-Walsh

The kernel mean embedding of probability distributions is commonly used in machine learning as an injective mapping from distributions to functions in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. It allows us, for example, to define a distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Jonas M. Kübler , Krikamol Muandet , Bernhard Schölkopf

The performance of kernel density estimators is usually studied via Taylor expansions and asymptotic approximation arguments, in which the bandwidth parameter tends to zero with increasing sample size. In contrast, this paper focusses…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nils Lid Hjort , Nikolai G. Ushakov

This paper deals with the kernel density estimator based on the so-called sinc (or Fourier integral) kernel $K(x)=(\pi x)^{-1}\sin x$. We study in detail both asymptotic and finite sample properties of this estimator. It is shown that,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Ingrid Kristine Glad , Nils Lid Hjort , Nikolai G. Ushakov

Kernel regression is an essential and ubiquitous tool for non-parametric data analysis, particularly popular among time series and spatial data. However, the central operation which is performed many times, evaluating a kernel on the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Yan Zheng , Jeff M. Phillips

We consider models for multivariate point processes where the intensity is given nonparametrically in terms of functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. The likelihood function involves a time integral and is consequently not given…

Computation · Statistics 2014-02-14 Niels Richard Hansen

Previous results pertaining to algebraic state and parameter estimation of linear systems based on a special construction of a forward-backward kernel representation of linear differential invariants are extended to handle large noise in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Debarshi Patanjali Ghoshal , Hannah Michalska