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In this paper, we propose several approaches to learn the optimal population-dependent controls in order to solve mean field control problems (MFC). Such policies enable us to solve MFC problems with forms of common noises at a level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere , Jiacheng Zhang

In this paper we show how to use Fourier transform methods to analyze the asymptotic behavior of kernel distribution function estimators. Exact expressions for the mean integrated squared error in terms of the characteristic function of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-17 José E. Chacón , Pablo Monfort , Carlos Tenreiro

Mean-Field Control (MFC) is a powerful tool to solve Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) problems. Recent studies have shown that MFC can well-approximate MARL when the population size is large and the agents are exchangeable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Washim Uddin Mondal , Vaneet Aggarwal , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Kernel-based clustering algorithms have the ability to capture the non-linear structure in real world data. Among various kernel-based clustering algorithms, kernel k-means has gained popularity due to its simple iterative nature and ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Radha Chitta , Rong Jin , Timothy C. Havens , Anil K. Jain

Kernel approximation methods create explicit, low-dimensional kernel feature maps to deal with the high computational and memory complexity of standard techniques. This work studies a supervised kernel learning methodology to optimize such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Mert Al , Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung

A mean field feedback artificial neural network algorithm is developed and explored for the set covering problem. A convenient encoding of the inequality constraints is achieved by means of a multilinear penalty function. An approximate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mattias Ohlsson , Carsten Peterson , Bo Söderberg

The random Fourier features (RFFs) method is a powerful and popular technique in kernel approximation for scalability of kernel methods. The theoretical foundation of RFFs is based on the Bochner theorem that relates symmetric, positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mingzhen He , Fan He , Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang

We address the problem of approximating parametric Fourier imaging problems via interpolation/ extrapolation algorithms that impose smoothing constraints across contiguous values of the parameter. Previous works already proved that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Anna Volpara , Alessandro Lupoli , Emma Perracchione

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

Kernel power $k$-means (KPKM) leverages a family of means to mitigate local minima issues in kernel $k$-means. However, KPKM faces two key limitations: (1) the computational burden of the full kernel matrix restricts its use on extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yixi Chen , Weixuan Liang , Tianrui Liu , Jun-Jie Huang , Ao Li , Xueling Zhu , Xinwang Liu

In recent years, reinforcement learning and its multi-agent analogue have achieved great success in solving various complex control problems. However, multi-agent reinforcement learning remains challenging both in its theoretical analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kai Cui , Mengguang Li , Christian Fabian , Heinz Koeppl

The method of random projection (RP) is the standard technique in machine learning and many other areas, for dimensionality reduction, approximate near neighbor search, compressed sensing, etc. Basically, RP provides a simple and effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-26 Xiaoyun Li , Ping Li

Simulating a Gaussian process requires sampling from a high-dimensional Gaussian distribution, which scales cubically with the number of sample locations. Spectral methods address this challenge by exploiting the Fourier representation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-27 Arsalan Jawaid , Abdullah Karatas , Jörg Seewig

We propose the adaptive random Fourier features Gaussian kernel LMS (ARFF-GKLMS). Like most kernel adaptive filters based on stochastic gradient descent, this algorithm uses a preset number of random Fourier features to save computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Wei Gao , Jie Chen , Cédric Richard , Wentao Shi , Qunfei Zhang

Mean field limits are an important tool in the context of large-scale dynamical systems, in particular, when studying multiagent and interacting particle systems. While the continuous-time theory is well-developed, few works have considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Sebastian Trimpe

We investigate reinforcement learning in the setting of Markov decision processes for a large number of exchangeable agents interacting in a mean field manner. Applications include, for example, the control of a large number of robots…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 René Carmona , Mathieu Laurière , Zongjun Tan

We consider the problem of improving the efficiency of randomized Fourier feature maps to accelerate training and testing speed of kernel methods on large datasets. These approximate feature maps arise as Monte Carlo approximations to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-11 Haim Avron , Vikas Sindhwani , Jiyan Yang , Michael Mahoney

A fast simulation framework for stochastic Volterra processes based on Random Fourier Features (RFF) approximation of the kernel is developed. After recalling the main properties of Volterra processes and reviewing existing numerical…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-26 Othmane Zarhali , Nicolas Langrené

Kernel mean embedding is a useful tool to represent and compare probability measures. Despite its usefulness, kernel mean embedding considers infinite-dimensional features, which are challenging to handle in the context of differentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Margarita Vinaroz , Mohammad-Amin Charusaie , Frederik Harder , Kamil Adamczewski , Mijung Park

Many scientific problems require identifying a small set of covariates that are associated with a target response and estimating their effects. Often, these effects are nonlinear and include interactions, so linear and additive methods can…

Computation · Statistics 2022-12-02 Raj Agrawal , Tamara Broderick