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The paper introduces new sufficient conditions of strict positive definiteness for kernels on d-dimensional spheres which are not radially symmetric but possess specific coefficient structures. The results use the series expansion of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Martin Buhmann , Janin Jäger

Machine-learning models based on a point-cloud representation of a physical object are ubiquitous in scientific applications and particularly well-suited to the atomic-scale description of molecules and materials. Among the many different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Filippo Bigi , Sergey N. Pozdnyakov , Michele Ceriotti

In this paper, a class of high order numerical schemes is proposed to solve the nonlinear parabolic equations with variable coefficients. This method is based on our previous work [10] for convection-diffusion equations, which relies on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Kaipeng Wang , Andrew Christlieb , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

Learning models of dynamical systems characterized by specific stability properties is of crucial importance in applications. Existing results mainly focus on linear systems or some limited classes of nonlinear systems and stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Matteo Scandella , Michelangelo Bin , Thomas Parisini

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

Traditional linear methods for forecasting multivariate time series are not able to satisfactorily model the non-linear dependencies that may exist in non-Gaussian series. We build on the theory of learning vector-valued functions in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Magda Gregorová , Alexandros Kalousis , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Invariance has recently proven to be a powerful inductive bias in machine learning models. One such class of predictive or generative models are tensor networks. We introduce a new numerical algorithm to construct a basis of tensors that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Brent Sprangers , Nick Vannieuwenhoven

The use of kernel functions is a common technique to extract important features from data sets. A quantum computer can be used to estimate kernel entries as transition amplitudes of unitary circuits. Quantum kernels exist that, subject to…

The positive definiteness of real quadratic forms with convolution structures plays an important role in stability analysis for time-stepping schemes for nonlocal operators.In this work, we present a novel analysis tool to handle discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Hong-lin Liao , Tao Tang , Tao Zhou

We consider the problem of positive-semidefinite continuation: extending a partially specified covariance kernel from a subdomain $\Omega$ of a rectangular domain $I\times I$ to a covariance kernel on the entire domain $I\times I$. For a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Kartik G. Waghmare , Victor M. Panaretos

We analyze in this paper a random feature map based on a theory of invariance I-theory introduced recently. More specifically, a group invariant signal signature is obtained through cumulative distributions of group transformed random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Youssef Mroueh , Stephen Voinea , Tomaso Poggio

This paper presents a parametric family of compactly-supported positive semidefinite kernels aimed to model the covariance structure of second-order stationary isotropic random fields defined in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Both the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Xavier Emery , Alfredo Alegría

We consider a kernel based harmonic analysis of "boundary," and boundary representations. Our setting is general: certain classes of positive definite kernels. Our theorems extend (and are motivated by) results and notions from classical…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

Hilbert-Schmidt independence criterion and distance covariance are methods to describe independence of random variables using either the Kronecker product of positive definite kernels or the Kronecker product of conditionally negative…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Jean Carlo Guella

We introduce a new class of nonstationary kernels, which we derive as covariance functions of a novel family of stochastic processes we refer to as string Gaussian processes (string GPs). We construct string GPs to allow for multiple types…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-09 Yves-Laurent Kom Samo , Stephen Roberts

The composition operators preserving total non-negativity and total positivity for various classes of kernels are classified, following three themes. Letting a function act by post composition on kernels with arbitrary domains, it is shown…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Alexander Belton , Dominique Guillot , Apoorva Khare , Mihai Putinar

In this paper, by mapping datasets to a set of non-linear coherent states, the process of encoding inputs in quantum states as a non-linear feature map is re-interpreted. As a result of this fact that the Radial Basis Function is recovered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Prayag Tiwari , Shahram Dehdashti , Abdul Karim Obeid , Massimo Melucci , Peter Bruza

In a general context of positive definite kernels $k$, we develop tools and algorithms for sampling in reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$ (RKHS). With reference to these RKHSs, our results allow inference from samples; more…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-28 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

Motivated by applications, we consider here new operator theoretic approaches to Conditional mean embeddings (CME). Our present results combine a spectral analysis-based optimization scheme with the use of kernels, stochastic processes, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song , James Tian

Analysis of large-scale sequential data has been one of the most crucial tasks in areas such as bioinformatics, text, and audio mining. Existing string kernels, however, either (i) rely on local features of short substructures in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lingfei Wu , Ian En-Hsu Yen , Siyu Huo , Liang Zhao , Kun Xu , Liang Ma , Shouling Ji , Charu Aggarwal