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Gaussian processes (GPs) provide flexible distributions over functions, with inductive biases controlled by a kernel. However, in many applications Gaussian processes can struggle with even moderate input dimensionality. Learning a low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Ian A. Delbridge , David S. Bindel , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Kernel-based methods have been recently introduced for linear system identification as an alternative to parametric prediction error methods. Adopting the Bayesian perspective, the impulse response is modeled as a non-stationary Gaussian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Mattia Zorzi , Alessandro Chiuso

This work incorporates the multi-modality of the data distribution into a Gaussian Process regression model. We approach the problem from a discriminative perspective by learning, jointly over the training data, the target space variance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Silvia L. Pintea , Jan C. van Gemert , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Learning the kernel functions used in kernel methods has been a vastly explored area in machine learning. It is now widely accepted that to obtain 'good' performance, learning a kernel function is the key challenge. In this work we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Chetan Tonde , Ahmed Elgammal

The present paper proposes generalized Gaussian kernel adaptive filtering, where the kernel parameters are adaptive and data-driven. The Gaussian kernel is parametrized by a center vector and a symmetric positive definite (SPD) precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Tomoya Wada , Kosuke Fukumori , Toshihisa Tanaka , Simone Fiori

Convolution kernels are the basic structural component of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In the last years there has been a growing interest in fisheye cameras for many applications. However, the radially symmetric projection model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Bruno Berenguel-Baeta , Maria Santos-Villafranca , Jesus Bermudez-Cameo , Alejandro Perez-Yus , Jose J. Guerrero

Gaussian process regression is a widely-applied method for function approximation and uncertainty quantification. The technique has gained popularity recently in the machine learning community due to its robustness and interpretability. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-12 Marcus M. Noack , James A. Sethian

It is well-known that non-linear approximation has an advantage over linear schemes in the sense that it provides comparable approximation rates to those of the linear schemes, but to a larger class of approximands. This was established for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-04-28 Thomas Hangelbroek , Amos Ron

Selecting optimal kernels for regression in physical systems remains a challenge, often relying on trial-and-error with standard functions. In this work, we establish a mathematical correspondence between support vector machine kernels and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Nan-Hong Kuo , Renata Wong

Kernel methods are among the most popular techniques in machine learning. From a frequentist/discriminative perspective they play a central role in regularization theory as they provide a natural choice for the hypotheses space and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-04-17 Mauricio A. Alvarez , Lorenzo Rosasco , Neil D. Lawrence

Choosing the most adequate kernel is crucial in many Machine Learning applications. Gaussian Process is a state-of-the-art technique for regression and classification that heavily relies on a kernel function. However, in the Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ibai Roman , Roberto Santana , Alexander Mendiburu , Jose A. Lozano

In this paper, we study the angle testing problem in the context of similarity search in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces and propose two projection-based probabilistic kernel functions, one designed for angle comparison and the other for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kejing Lu , Chuan Xiao , Yoshiharu Ishikawa

Motivated by the need for efficient and personalized learning in mobile health, we investigate the problem of online kernel selection for Gaussian Process regression in the multi-task setting. We propose a novel generative process on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Eura Shin , Pedja Klasnja , Susan Murphy , Finale Doshi-Velez

Radial Basis Function (RBF), or Gaussian, kernels are among the most widely used parametric kernels in machine learning, particularly in methods such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) and kernel-based subspace approaches. The kernel…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Lakhdar Remaki

Gaussian Radial Basis Function (RBF) Kernels are the most-often-employed kernels in artificial intelligence and machine learning routines for providing optimally-best results in contrast to their respective counter-parts. However, a little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Himanshu Singh

A method to reconstruct fields, source strengths and physical parameters based on Gaussian process regression is presented for the case where data are known to fulfill a given linear differential equation with localized sources. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-09-10 Christopher G. Albert

In convolutional neural networks, the convolutions are conventionally performed using a square kernel with a fixed N $\times$ N receptive field (RF). However, what matters most to the network is the effective receptive field (ERF) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qi Chen , Chao Li , Jia Ning , Stephen Lin , Kun He

Transformers have increasingly become the de facto method to model sequential data with state-of-the-art performance. Due to its widespread use, being able to estimate and calibrate its modeling uncertainty is important to understand and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Long Minh Bui , Tho Tran Huu , Duy Dinh , Tan Minh Nguyen , Trong Nghia Hoang

We present a Gaussian kernel loss function and training algorithm for convolutional neural networks that can be directly applied to both distance metric learning and image classification problems. Our method treats all training features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Benjamin J. Meyer , Ben Harwood , Tom Drummond

General predictive models do not provide a measure of confidence in predictions without Bayesian assumptions. A way to circumvent potential restrictions is to use conformal methods for constructing non-parametric confidence regions, that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-21 Evgeny Burnaev , Ivan Nazarov