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We develop a comprehensive framework for spatio-temporal prediction of time-varying vector fields using operator-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (OV RKHS). By integrating Sobolev regularity with Koopman operator theory, we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Mahishanka Withanachchi

We present a general framework to learn functions in tensor product reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (TP-RKHSs). The methodology is based on a novel representer theorem suitable for existing as well as new spectral penalties for tensors.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Marco Signoretto , Lieven De Lathauwer , Johan A. K. Suykens

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) play an important role in many statistics and machine learning applications ranging from support vector machines to Gaussian processes and kernel embeddings of distributions. Operators acting on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Mattes Mollenhauer , Ingmar Schuster , Stefan Klus , Christof Schütte

We study a class of dynamical systems modelled as Markov chains that admit an invariant distribution via the corresponding transfer, or Koopman, operator. While data-driven algorithms to reconstruct such operators are well known, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Vladimir Kostic , Pietro Novelli , Andreas Maurer , Carlo Ciliberto , Lorenzo Rosasco , Massimiliano Pontil

Predictive State Representations (PSRs) are an expressive class of models for controlled stochastic processes. PSRs represent state as a set of predictions of future observable events. Because PSRs are defined entirely in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Byron Boots , Geoffrey Gordon , Arthur Gretton

A key question in sequence modeling with neural networks is how to represent and learn highly nonlinear and probabilistic state dynamics. Operator theory views such dynamics as linear maps on Hilbert spaces containing mean embedding vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jinwoo Kim , Max Beier , Petar Bevanda , Nayun Kim , Seunghoon Hong

Learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces has achieved empirical success in many disciplines of machine learning, including generative modeling, functional data analysis, causal inference, and multi-agent reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jikai Jin , Yiping Lu , Jose Blanchet , Lexing Ying

The Koopman operator provides a powerful framework for representing the dynamics of general nonlinear dynamical systems. However, existing data-driven approaches to learning the Koopman operator rely on batch data. In this work, we present…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-16 Boya Hou , Sina Sanjari , Nathan Dahlin , Alec Koppel , Subhonmesh Bose

The reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embedding method is a recently introduced estimation approach that seeks to identify the unknown or uncertain function in the governing equations of a nonlinear set of ordinary differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Jia Guo , Sai Tej Paruchuri , Andrew J. Kurdila

The Koopman operator provides a powerful framework for representing the dynamics of general nonlinear dynamical systems. Data-driven techniques to learn the Koopman operator typically assume that the chosen function space is closed under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-06 Boya Hou , Sina Sanjari , Nathan Dahlin , Alec Koppel , Subhonmesh Bose

We develop novel learning rates for conditional mean embeddings by applying the theory of interpolation for reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). We derive explicit, adaptive convergence rates for the sample estimator under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Prem Talwai , Ali Shameli , David Simchi-Levi

This paper investigates a general regularization framework for unsupervised domain adaptation in vector-valued regression under the covariate shift assumption, utilizing vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (vRKHS). Covariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Markus Holzleitner , Sergiy Pereverzyev , Sergei V. Pereverzyev , Vaibhav Silmana , S. Sivananthan

We consider a class of operator-induced norms, acting as finite-dimensional surrogates to the L2 norm, and study their approximation properties over Hilbert subspaces of L2 . The class includes, as a special case, the usual empirical norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-01 Arash A. Amini , Martin J. Wainwright

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

The aim of this article is to explore in all remaining aspects the spectral theory of locally normal operators. In a previous article we proved the spectral theorem in terms of locally spectral measures. Here we prove the spectral theorem…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Aurelian Gheondea

This work presents a nonparametric framework for dissipativity learning in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, which enables data-driven certification of stability and performance properties for unknown nonlinear systems without requiring an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Xiuzhen Ye , Wentao Tang

We develop a rigorous framework for extending neural operators to handle out-of-distribution input functions. We leverage kernel approximation techniques and provide theory for characterizing the input-output function spaces in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Blaine Quackenbush , Paul J. Atzberger

We propose a new point of view for regularizing deep neural networks by using the norm of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Even though this norm cannot be computed, it admits upper and lower approximations leading to various…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-15 Alberto Bietti , Grégoire Mialon , Dexiong Chen , Julien Mairal

This manuscript gives a theoretical framework for a new Hilbert space of functions, the so called occupation kernel Hilbert space (OKHS), that operate on collections of signals rather than real or complex numbers. To support this new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Joel A. Rosenfeld , Benjamin Russo , Xiuying Li

Traditionally, kernel methods rely on the representer theorem which states that the solution to a learning problem is obtained as a linear combination of the data mapped into the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). While elegant from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Riikka Huusari , Sahely Bhadra , Cécile Capponi , Hachem Kadri , Juho Rousu