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A mean function in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), or a kernel mean, is central to kernel methods in that it is used by many classical algorithms such as kernel principal component analysis, and it also forms the core inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-26 Krikamol Muandet , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu , Arthur Gretton , Bernhard Schölkopf

Under mild assumptions on the kernel, we obtain the best known error rates in a regularized learning scenario taking place in the corresponding reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). The main novelty in the analysis is a proof that one…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Shahar Mendelson , Joseph Neeman

There has been much progress on efficient algorithms for clustering data points generated by a mixture of $k$ probability distributions under the assumption that the means of the distributions are well-separated, i.e., the distance between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-13 Amit Kumar , Ravindran Kannan

We propose a simple and efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data with a large number of clusters. Our algorithm achieves high-performance by evaluating distances of datapoints with a subset of the cluster centres. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Georgios Exarchakis , Omar Oubari , Gregor Lenz

K-means is an effective clustering technique used to separate similar data into groups based on initial centroids of clusters. In this paper, Normalization based K-means clustering algorithm(N-K means) is proposed. Proposed N-K means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Deepali Virmani , Shweta Taneja , Geetika Malhotra

This paper presents a kernel-based discriminative learning framework on probability measures. Rather than relying on large collections of vectorial training examples, our framework learns using a collection of probability distributions that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-15 Krikamol Muandet , Kenji Fukumizu , Francesco Dinuzzo , Bernhard Schölkopf

The learning of mixture models can be viewed as a clustering problem. Indeed, given data samples independently generated from a mixture of distributions, we often would like to find the {\it correct target clustering} of the samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-26 Zhaoqiang Liu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

The analysis of continously larger datasets is a task of major importance in a wide variety of scientific fields. In this sense, cluster analysis algorithms are a key element of exploratory data analysis, due to their easiness in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-10 Marco Capó , Aritz Pérez , Jose A. Lozano

We study the approximation of a square-integrable function from a finite number of evaluations on a random set of nodes according to a well-chosen distribution. This is particularly relevant when the function is assumed to belong to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-13 Ayoub Belhadji , Rémi Bardenet , Pierre Chainais

We consider a size-structured population describing the cell divisions. The cell population is described by an empirical measure and we observe the divisions in the continuous time interval [0, T ]. We address here the problem of estimating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Van Ha Hoang

Clustering partitions a dataset such that observations placed together in a group are similar but different from those in other groups. Hierarchical and $K$-means clustering are two approaches but have different strengths and weaknesses.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Anna D. Peterson , Arka P. Ghosh , Ranjan Maitra

Clustering is an important exploratory data analysis technique to group objects based on their similarity. The widely used $K$-means clustering method relies on some notion of distance to partition data into a fewer number of groups. In the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-14 Yubo Zhuang , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang

The $k$-means algorithm is a prevalent clustering method due to its simplicity, effectiveness, and speed. However, its main disadvantage is its high sensitivity to the initial positions of the cluster centers. The global $k$-means is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Georgios Vardakas , Aristidis Likas

Spectral clustering and diffusion maps are celebrated dimensionality reduction algorithms built on eigen-elements related to the diffusive structure of the data. The core of these procedures is the approximation of a Laplacian through a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Loucas Pillaud-Vivien , Francis Bach

We propose a simple yet effective multiple kernel clustering algorithm, termed simple multiple kernel k-means (SimpleMKKM). It extends the widely used supervised kernel alignment criterion to multi-kernel clustering. Our criterion is given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Jiyuan Liu , Timothy Hospedales , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

This paper proposes a consensus-based distributed nonlinear filter with kernel mean embedding (KME). This fills with gap of posterior density approximation with KME for distributed nonlinear dynamic systems. To approximate the posterior…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Liping Guo , Jimin Wang , Yanlong Zhao , Ji-Feng Zhang

The problem of estimating the number of clusters (say k) is one of the major challenges for the partitional clustering. This paper proposes an algorithm named k-SCC to estimate the optimal k in categorical data clustering. For the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Duy-Tai Dinh , Tsutomu Fujinami , Van-Nam Huynh

Kernel methods, being supported by a well-developed theory and coming with efficient algorithms, are among the most popular and successful machine learning techniques. From a mathematical point of view, these methods rest on the concept of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-20 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Michael Rom , Chiara Segala , Sebastian Trimpe

We introduce kernel thinning, a new procedure for compressing a distribution $\mathbb{P}$ more effectively than i.i.d. sampling or standard thinning. Given a suitable reproducing kernel $\mathbf{k}_{\star}$ and $O(n^2)$ time, kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-14 Raaz Dwivedi , Lester Mackey

This paper studies the optimality of kernel methods in high-dimensional data clustering. Recent works have studied the large sample performance of kernel clustering in the high-dimensional regime, where Euclidean distance becomes less…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Leena Chennuru Vankadara , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar