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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

We consider a class of statistical inverse problems involving the estimation of a regression operator from a Polish space to a separable Hilbert space, where the target lies in a vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space induced by an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Jia-Qi Yang , Lei Shi

In this paper, we study the statistical limits in terms of Sobolev norms of gradient descent for solving inverse problem from randomly sampled noisy observations using a general class of objective functions. Our class of objective functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Yiping Lu , Jose Blanchet , Lexing Ying

We present the first optimal rates for infinite-dimensional vector-valued ridge regression on a continuous scale of norms that interpolate between $L_2$ and the hypothesis space, which we consider as a vector-valued reproducing kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-07 Zhu Li , Dimitri Meunier , Mattes Mollenhauer , Arthur Gretton

Convergence rates in spectral regularization methods quantify the approximation error in inverse problems as a function of the noise level or the number of sampling points. Classical strong convergence rate results typically rely on source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Sabrina Guastavino , Gabriele Santin , Francesco Marchetti , Federico Benvenuto

Recent advances in machine learning have inspired a surge of research into reconstructing specific quantities of interest from measurements that comply with certain physical laws. These efforts focus on inverse problems that are governed by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-23 Honam Wong , Wendao Wu , Fanghui Liu , Yiping Lu

We study the kernel instrumental variable (KIV) algorithm, a kernel-based two-stage least-squares method for nonparametric instrumental variable regression. We provide a convergence analysis covering both identified and non-identified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Dimitri Meunier , Zhu Li , Tim Christensen , Arthur Gretton

Kernel ridge regression (KRR), also known as the least-squares support vector machine, is a fundamental method for learning functions from finite samples. While most existing analyses focus on the noisy setting with constant-level label…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-14 Jihao Long , Xiaojun Peng , Lei Wu

A well-recognized limitation of kernel learning is the requirement to handle a kernel matrix, whose size is quadratic in the number of training examples. Many methods have been proposed to reduce this computational cost, mostly by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yishay Mansour , Ohad Shamir

Any applied mathematical model contains parameters. The paper proposes to use kernel learning for the parametric analysis of the model. The approach consists in setting a distribution on the parameter space, obtaining a finite training…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Vladimir Norkin , Alois Pichler

Spectral algorithms leverage spectral regularization techniques to analyze and process data, providing a flexible framework for addressing supervised learning problems. To deepen our understanding of their performance in real-world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-23 Jun Fan , Zheng-Chu Guo , Lei Shi

This paper studies an intriguing phenomenon related to the good generalization performance of estimators obtained by using large learning rates within gradient descent algorithms. First observed in the deep learning literature, we show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-06 Gaspard Beugnot , Julien Mairal , Alessandro Rudi

We consider multi-agent stochastic optimization problems over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). In this setting, a network of interconnected agents aims to learn decision functions, i.e., nonlinear statistical models, that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Alec Koppel , Santiago Paternain , Cedric Richard , Alejandro Ribeiro

Regularized kernel methods such as support vector machines (SVM) and support vector regression (SVR) constitute a broad and flexible class of methods which are theoretically well investigated and commonly used in nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-07 Robert Hable

We develop an approach for estimating models described via conditional moment restrictions, with a prototypical application being non-parametric instrumental variable regression. We introduce a min-max criterion function, under which the…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-06-15 Nishanth Dikkala , Greg Lewis , Lester Mackey , Vasilis Syrgkanis

In this article, we consider convergence rates in functional linear regression with functional responses, where the linear coefficient lies in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Without assuming that the reproducing kernel and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-11-20 Heng Lian

Conditional expectiles are becoming an increasingly important tool in finance as well as in other areas of applications. We analyse a support vector machine type approach for estimating conditional expectiles and establish learning rates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Muhammad Farooq , Ingo Steinwart

There are many ways to upsample functions from multivariate scattered data locally, using only a few neighbouring data points of the evaluation point. The position and number of the actually used data points is not trivial, and many cases…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Robert Schaback

We develop a kernel-based approach for estimating the spatially varying Sobolev regularity~$s$ of an unknown $d$-variate function~$f$ from scattered sampling data, which quantifies the degree of local differentiability supported by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Xiaobin Li , Leevan Ling , Yizhong Sun

A learning approach for determining which operator from a class of nonlocal operators is optimal for the regularization of an inverse problem is investigated. The considered class of nonlocal operators is motivated by the use of squared…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Gernot Holler , Karl Kunisch