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Positive definite kernels and their associated Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces provide a mathematically compelling and practically competitive framework for learning from data. In this paper we take the approximation theory point of view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Mikhail Belkin

Kernel methods are successful approaches for different machine learning problems. This success is mainly rooted in using feature maps and kernel matrices. Some methods rely on the eigenvalues/eigenvectors of the kernel matrix, while for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Nima Reyhani , Hideitsu Hino , Ricardo Vigario

We study fast algorithms for computing fundamental properties of a positive semidefinite kernel matrix $K \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ corresponding to $n$ points $x_1,\ldots,x_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$. In particular, we consider estimating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk , Cameron Musco , Tal Wagner

In this paper, we derive entrywise error bounds for low-rank approximations of kernel matrices obtained using the truncated eigen-decomposition (or singular value decomposition). While this approximation is well-known to be optimal with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Alexander Modell

Kernel matrices are a key quantity in kernel-based approximation, and important properties such as stability and algorithmic convergence can be analyzed with their help. In this work we refine a multivariate Ingham-type theorem, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Tizan Wenzel , Armin Iske

Computing eigenvalues of very large matrices is a critical task in many machine learning applications, including the evaluation of log-determinants, the trace of matrix functions, and other important metrics. As datasets continue to grow in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-16 Siavash Ameli , Chris van der Heide , Liam Hodgkinson , Michael W. Mahoney

In this paper we study the concentration properties for the eigenvalues of kernel matrices, which are central objects in a wide range of kernel methods and, more recently, in network analysis. We present a set of concentration inequalities…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Ernesto Araya Valdivia

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

This paper studies inference in linear models with a high-dimensional parameter matrix that can be well-approximated by a ``spiked low-rank matrix.'' A spiked low-rank matrix has rank that grows slowly compared to its dimensions and nonzero…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Victor Chernozhukov , Christian Hansen , Yuan Liao , Yinchu Zhu

The kernel trick concept, formulated as an inner product in a feature space, facilitates powerful extensions to many well-known algorithms. While the kernel matrix involves inner products in the feature space, the sample covariance matrix…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-20 Tomer Lancewicki

Symmetric kernel matrices are a well-researched topic in the literature of kernel based approximation. In particular stability properties in terms of lower bounds on the smallest eigenvalue of such symmetric kernel matrices are thoroughly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Tizian Wenzel , Armin Iske

We investigate if kernel regularization methods can achieve minimax convergence rates over a source condition regularity assumption for the target function. These questions have been considered in past literature, but only under specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-15 Gilles Blanchard , Nicole Mücke

Quantum kernel methods are a promising branch of quantum machine learning, yet their effectiveness on diverse, high-dimensional, real-world data remains unverified. Current research has largely been limited to low-dimensional or synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jiang Yuhan , Matthew Otten

Kernel methods are an extremely popular set of techniques used for many important machine learning and data analysis applications. In addition to having good practical performances, these methods are supported by a well-developed theory.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-23 Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Mark Rudelson

Analyzing the structure of sampled features from an input data distribution is challenging when constrained by limited measurements in both the number of inputs and features. Traditional approaches often rely on the eigenvalue spectrum of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chanwoo Chun , SueYeon Chung , Daniel D. Lee

With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, numerical algorithms are moving towards more approximate approaches. For methods such as PCA or diffusion maps, it is necessary to compute eigenvalues of a large matrix, which may also be dense…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Keerthi Gaddameedi , Severin Reiz , Tobias Neckel , Hans-Joachim Bungartz

We show that kernel-based quadrature rules for computing integrals can be seen as a special case of random feature expansions for positive definite kernels, for a particular decomposition that always exists for such kernels. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Francis Bach

In this paper, we provide a strategy to determine the eigenvalue decay rate (EDR) of a large class of kernel functions defined on a general domain rather than $\mathbb S^{d}$. This class of kernel functions include but are not limited to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-08 Yicheng Li , Zixiong Yu , Guhan Chen , Qian Lin

Kernel density estimation is a convenient way to estimate the probability density of a distribution given the sample of data points. However, it has certain drawbacks: proper description of the density using narrow kernels needs large data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-02-27 Anton Poluektov

Domain specific (dis-)similarity or proximity measures used e.g. in alignment algorithms of sequence data, are popular to analyze complex data objects and to cover domain specific data properties. Without an underlying vector space these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Andrej Gisbrecht , Frank-Michael Schleif
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