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We introduce a framework for learning continuous neural representations of formal specifications by distilling the geometry of their semantics into a latent space. Existing approaches rely either on symbolic kernels -- which preserve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sara Candussio , Gabriele Sarti , Gaia Saveri , Luca Bortolussi

We present a description of the function space and the smoothness class associated with a convolutional network using the machinery of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We show that the mapping associated with a convolutional network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-17 Meyer Scetbon , Zaid Harchaoui

In-context learning is a remarkable capability of transformers, referring to their ability to adapt to specific tasks based on a short history or context. Previous research has found that task-specific information is locally encoded within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Liu Yang , Ziqian Lin , Kangwook Lee , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Robert Nowak

By making a seminal use of the maximum modulus principle of holomorphic functions we prove existence of $n$-best kernel approximation for a wide class of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of holomorphic functions in the unit disc, and for…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Tao Qian

A number of machine learning tasks entail a high degree of invariance: the data distribution does not change if we act on the data with a certain group of transformations. For instance, labels of images are invariant under translations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Song Mei , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Andrea Montanari

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

CoVariance Neural Networks (VNNs) perform graph convolutions on the empirical covariance matrix of signals defined over finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, motivated by robustness and transferability properties. Yet, little is known about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Claudio Battiloro , Andrea Cavallo , Elvin Isufi

Cover's function counting theorem is a milestone in the theory of artificial neural networks. It provides an answer to the fundamental question of determining how many binary assignments (dichotomies) of $p$ points in $n$ dimensions can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-05-20 Pietro Rotondo , Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino , Marco Gherardi

This paper generalizes recent advances on quadratic manifold (QM) dimensionality reduction by developing kernel methods-based nonlinear-augmentation dimensionality reduction. QMs, and more generally feature map-based nonlinear corrections,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alejandro N. Diaz , Jacob T. Needels , Irina K. Tezaur , Patrick J. Blonigan

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

Feature learning is widely regarded as the key mechanism distinguishing neural networks from fixed-kernel methods, yet its impact on the induced function space remains poorly understood. In this work, we precisely characterize how the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 João Lobo , Bruno Loureiro , Long Tran-Than , Fanghui Liu

The kernel matrix used in kernel methods encodes all the information required for solving complex nonlinear problems defined on data representations in the input space using simple, but implicitly defined, solutions. Spectral analysis on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Alexandros Iosifidis

We present the self-encoder, a neural network trained to guess the identity of each data sample. Despite its simplicity, it learns a very useful representation of data, in a self-supervised way. Specifically, the self-encoder learns to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Armand Boschin , Thomas Bonald , Marc Jeanmougin

This paper introduces a computational framework to identify nonlinear input-output operators that fit a set of system trajectories while satisfying incremental integral quadratic constraints. The data fitting algorithm is thus regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Henk J. van Waarde , Rodolphe Sepulchre

In this paper, we study the feature learning ability of two-layer neural networks in the mean-field regime through the lens of kernel methods. To focus on the dynamics of the kernel induced by the first layer, we utilize a two-timescale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shokichi Takakura , Taiji Suzuki

Learning representations of nodes in a low dimensional space is a crucial task with numerous interesting applications in network analysis, including link prediction, node classification, and visualization. Two popular approaches for this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Abdulkadir Celikkanat , Yanning Shen , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Situations of a functional predictor paired with a scalar response are increasingly encountered in data analysis. Predictors are often appropriately modeled as square integrable smooth random functions. Imposing minimal assumptions on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Peter Hall , Hans-Georg Müller , Fang Yao

In this paper we combine the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces with the field of collocation methods to solve boundary value problems with special emphasis on reproducing property of kernels. From the reproducing property of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Babak Azarnavid , Mahdi Emamjome , Mohammad Nabati , Saeid Abbasbandy

Outside of transfer learning settings, reinforcement learning agents start their learning process from a clean slate. As a result, such agents have to go through a slow process to learn even the most obvious skills required to solve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Rubens O. Moraes , Quazi Asif Sadmine , Hendrik Baier , Levi H. S. Lelis

Tensors provide a structured representation for multidimensional data, yet discretization can obscure important information when such data originates from continuous processes. We address this limitation by introducing a functional Tucker…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-27 Noah Steidle , Joppe De Jonghe , Mariya Ishteva