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Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 James Tian

These notes provide a self-contained introduction to kernel methods and their geometric foundations in machine learning. Starting from the construction of Hilbert spaces, we develop the theory of positive definite kernels, reproducing…

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

Much recent work has addressed the solution of a family of partial differential equations by computing the inverse operator map between the input and solution space. Toward this end, we incorporate function-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Kaijun Bao , Xu Qian , Ziyuan Liu , Songhe Song

Quantum processors may enhance machine learning by mapping high-dimensional data onto quantum systems for processing. Conventional feature maps, for encoding data onto a quantum circuit are currently impractical, as the number of entangling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Utkarsh Singh , Jean-Frédéric Laprade , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

We propose a method for the approximation of high- or even infinite-dimensional feature vectors, which play an important role in supervised learning. The goal is to reduce the size of the training data, resulting in lower storage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-06 Patrick Gelß , Stefan Klus , Ingmar Schuster , Christof Schütte

This is a tutorial and survey paper on kernels, kernel methods, and related fields. We start with reviewing the history of kernels in functional analysis and machine learning. Then, Mercer kernel, Hilbert and Banach spaces, Reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

An invex function generalizes a convex function in the sense that every stationary point is a global minimizer. Recently, invex functions and their subclasses have attracted attention in signal processing and machine learning. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Akatsuki Nishioka

The kernel matrix used in kernel methods encodes all the information required for solving complex nonlinear problems defined on data representations in the input space using simple, but implicitly defined, solutions. Spectral analysis on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Alexandros Iosifidis

In this paper, the framework of kernel machines with two layers is introduced, generalizing classical kernel methods. The new learning methodology provide a formal connection between computational architectures with multiple layers and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Francesco Dinuzzo

In this paper, we introduce a new kernel function which differs from previous functions, and play an important role for generating a new design of primal-dual interior point algorithms for semidefinite linear complementarity problem. Its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Nabila Abdessemed , Rachid Benacer , Naima Boudiaf

We propose a framework for 2D shape analysis using positive definite kernels defined on Kendall's shape manifold. Different representations of 2D shapes are known to generate different nonlinear spaces. Due to the nonlinearity of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

The general perception is that kernel methods are not scalable, and neural nets are the methods of choice for nonlinear learning problems. Or have we simply not tried hard enough for kernel methods? Here we propose an approach that scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Bo Dai , Bo Xie , Niao He , Yingyu Liang , Anant Raj , Maria-Florina Balcan , Le Song

Deep kernel learning aims at designing nonlinear combinations of multiple standard elementary kernels by training deep networks. This scheme has proven to be effective, but intractable when handling large-scale datasets especially when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi

In supervised learning, the output variable to be predicted is often represented as a function, such as a spectrum or probability distribution. Despite its importance, functional output regression remains relatively unexplored. In this…

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This paper presents a kernelized version of the t-SNE algorithm, capable of mapping high-dimensional data to a low-dimensional space while preserving the pairwise distances between the data points in a non-Euclidean metric. This can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Denis C. Ilie-Ablachim , Bogdan Dumitrescu , Cristian Rusu

One of the most natural connections between quantum and classical machine learning has been established in the context of kernel methods. Kernel methods rely on kernels, which are inner products of feature vectors living in large feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Elies Gil-Fuster , Jens Eisert , Vedran Dunjko

Autoencoders learn data representations (codes) in such a way that the input is reproduced at the output of the network. However, it is not always clear what kind of properties of the input data need to be captured by the codes. Kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-24 Michael Kampffmeyer , Sigurd Løkse , Filippo M. Bianchi , Robert Jenssen , Lorenzo Livi

We develop an approach for feature elimination in statistical learning with kernel machines, based on recursive elimination of features.We present theoretical properties of this method and show that it is uniformly consistent in finding the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-29 Sayan Dasgupta , Yair Goldberg , Michael Kosorok

By leveraging the kernel trick in the output space, kernel-induced losses provide a principled way to define structured output prediction tasks for a wide variety of output modalities. In particular, they have been successfully used in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-14 Tamim El Ahmad , Junjie Yang , Pierre Laforgue , Florence d'Alché-Buc