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In this paper, we consider the problem of sequentially optimizing a black-box function $f$ based on noisy samples and bandit feedback. We assume that $f$ is smooth in the sense of having a bounded norm in some reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Jonathan Scarlett , Ilijia Bogunovic , Volkan Cevher

We present a kernel-based linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach for the approximate solution of Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equations arising in nonlinear optimal control. The method represents the gradient of the value function in a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boumediene Hamzi , Umesh Vaidya

The analysis of Tikhonov regularization for nonlinear ill-posed equations with smoothness promoting penalties is an important topic in inverse problem theory. With focus on Hilbert scale models, the case of oversmoothing penalties, i.e.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Bernd Hofmann , Christopher Hofmann , Peter Mathé , Robert Plato

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

We consider the problem of reconstructing a function from a finite set of noise-corrupted samples. Two kernel algorithms are analyzed, namely kernel ridge regression and $\varepsilon$-support vector regression. By assuming the ground-truth…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Emilio T. Maddalena , Paul Scharnhorst , Colin N. Jones

We propose a new decentralized robust kernel-based learning algorithm within the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) by utilizing a networked system that can be represented as a connected graph. The robust loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zhan Yu , Zhongjie Shi , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Kernel-based bandit is an extensively studied black-box optimization problem, in which the objective function is assumed to live in a known reproducing kernel Hilbert space. While nearly optimal regret bounds (up to logarithmic factors) are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-27 Sattar Vakili

It is common to model a deterministic response function, such as the output of a computer experiment, as a Gaussian process with a Mat\'ern covariance kernel. The smoothness parameter of a Mat\'ern kernel determines many important…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Toni Karvonen

We study distributed learning with the least squares regularization scheme in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). By a divide-and-conquer approach, the algorithm partitions a data set into disjoint data subsets, applies the least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Shao-Bo Lin , Xin Guo , Ding-Xuan Zhou

For the Tikhonov regularization of ill-posed nonlinear operator equations, convergence is studied in a Hilbert scale setting. We include the case of oversmoothing penalty terms, which means that the exact solution does not belong to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Bernd Hofmann , Robert Plato

We recently introduced a scale of kernel-based greedy schemes for approximating the solutions of elliptic boundary value problems. The procedure is based on a generalized interpolation framework in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and was…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Bernard Haasdonk , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

The RKHS bandit problem (also called kernelized multi-armed bandit problem) is an online optimization problem of non-linear functions with noisy feedback. Although the problem has been extensively studied, there are unsatisfactory results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Sho Takemori , Masahiro Sato

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a difference-of-convex objective over a nonlinear conic constraint, where the cone is closed, convex, pointed and has a nonempty interior. We assume that the support function of a compact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jiefeng Xu , Ting Kei Pong , Nung-sing Sze

Kernel ridge regression (KRR) is a well-known and popular nonparametric regression approach with many desirable properties, including minimax rate-optimality in estimating functions that belong to common reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-15 Arash A. Amini

Approximating the optimal value function $v^*$ for infinite-horizon, nonlinear, autonomous optimal control problems is both challenging and essential for synthesizing real-time optimal feedback. We develop an abstract optimal recovery…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Tobias Ehring , Behzad Azmi , Bernard Haasdonk

Data-driven approximations of the infinite-dimensional Koopman operator rely on finite-dimensional projections, where the predictive accuracy of the resulting models hinges heavily on the invariance of the chosen subspace. Subspace pruning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Dhruv Shah , Jorge Cortes

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Shubhayan Pan , Kushal Bose , Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das

The submodular knapsack problem (SKP), which seeks to maximize a submodular set function by selecting a subset of elements within a given budget, is an important discrete optimization problem. The majority of existing approaches to solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yimin Hao , Yi Zhou , Chao Xu , Zhang-Hua Fu

In this paper we study the convergence of online gradient descent algorithms in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) without regularization. We establish a sufficient condition and a necessary condition for the convergence of excess…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Yunwen Lei , Lei Shi , Zheng-Chu Guo

We study Tikhonov regularization for possibly nonlinear inverse problems with weighted $\ell^1$-penalization. The forward operator, mapping from a sequence space to an arbitrary Banach space, typically an $L^2$-space, is assumed to satisfy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Philip Miller , Thorsten Hohage