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Bayesian inference problems require sampling or approximating high-dimensional probability distributions. The focus of this paper is on the recently introduced Stein variational gradient descent methodology, a class of algorithms that rely…

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This paper introduces a new and effective algorithm for learning kernels in a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) setting. Although, we consider a MTL scenario here, our approach can be easily applied to standard single task learning, as well. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Niloofar Yousefi , Cong Li , Mansooreh Mollaghasemi , Georgios Anagnostopoulos , Michael Georgiopoulos

Kernel continual learning by \citet{derakhshani2021kernel} has recently emerged as a strong continual learner due to its non-parametric ability to tackle task interference and catastrophic forgetting. Unfortunately its success comes at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani , Xiantong Zhen , Ling Shao , Cees G. M. Snoek

The kernel herding algorithm is used to construct quadrature rules in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). While the computational efficiency of the algorithm and stability of the output quadrature formulas are advantages of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Kazuma Tsuji , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

This paper presents a novel kernel-based generative classifier which is defined in a distortion subspace using polynomial series expansion, named Kernel-Distortion (KD) classifier. An iterative kernel selection algorithm is developed to…

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This paper concerns models and convergence principles for dealing with stochasticity in a wide range of algorithms arising in nonlinear analysis and optimization in Hilbert spaces. It proposes a flexible geometric framework within which…

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Wasserstein gradient and Hamiltonian flows have emerged as essential tools for modeling complex dynamics in the natural sciences, with applications ranging from partial differential equations (PDEs) and optimal transport to quantum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jianyu Hu , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Daiying Yin

The notion of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) has emerged in system identification during the past decade. In the resulting framework, the impulse response estimation problem is formulated as a regularized optimization defined on an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Mohammad Khosravi , Roy S. Smith

In this paper, we introduce a new image representation based on a multilayer kernel machine. Unlike traditional kernel methods where data representation is decoupled from the prediction task, we learn how to shape the kernel with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-26 Julien Mairal

We propose a novel adaptive learning algorithm based on iterative orthogonal projections in the Cartesian product of multiple reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). The task is estimating/tracking nonlinear functions which are supposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Masahiro Yukawa

Convex clustering is a well-regarded clustering method, resembling the similar centroid-based approach of Lloyd's $k$-means, without requiring a predefined cluster count. It starts with each data point as its centroid and iteratively merges…

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We study generalization properties of distributed algorithms in the setting of nonparametric regression over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). We first investigate distributed stochastic gradient methods (SGM), with mini-batches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Junhong Lin , Volkan Cevher

We present several generative and predictive algorithms based on the RKHS (reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces) methodology, which, most importantly, are scale up efficiently with large datasets or high-dimensional data. It is well recognized…

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This paper addresses the problem of distributed learning under communication constraints, motivated by distributed signal processing in wireless sensor networks and data mining with distributed databases. After formalizing a general model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Joel B. Predd , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

A recent paper (Neural Networks, {\bf 132} (2020), 253-268) introduces a straightforward and simple kernel based approximation for manifold learning that does not require the knowledge of anything about the manifold, except for its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Eric Mason , Hrushikesh Mhaskar , Adam Guo

In this article, we show that solving the system of linear equations by manipulating the kernel and the range space is equivalent to solving the problem of least squares error approximation. This establishes the ground for a gradient-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Kar-Ann Toh , Zhiping Lin , Zhengguo Li , Beomseok Oh , Lei Sun

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

Modern information processing relies on the axiom that high-dimensional data lie near low-dimensional geometric structures. This paper revisits the problem of data-driven learning of these geometric structures and puts forth two new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Tong Wu , Waheed U. Bajwa

Large kernel convolutions offer a scalable alternative to vision transformers for high-resolution 3D volumetric analysis, yet naively increasing kernel size often leads to optimization instability. Motivated by the spatial bias inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ho Hin Lee , Quan Liu , Shunxing Bao , Yuankai Huo , Bennett A. Landman

Adversarial training has emerged as a key technique to enhance model robustness against adversarial input perturbations. Many of the existing methods rely on computationally expensive min-max problems that limit their application in…

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