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Kernel interpolation is a versatile tool for the approximation of functions from data, and it can be proven to have some optimality properties when used with kernels related to certain Sobolev spaces. In the context of interpolation, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel , Bernard Haasdonk

In this paper we propose an enhanced version of the residual sub-sampling method (RSM) in [9] for adaptive interpolation by radial basis functions (RBFs). More precisely, we introduce in the context of sub-sampling methods a maximum profile…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 R. Cavoretto A. De Rossi

Functional linear regression is one of the fundamental and well-studied methods in functional data analysis. In this work, we investigate the functional linear regression model within the context of reproducing kernel Hilbert space by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Naveen Gupta , S. Sivananthan , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Kernel methods are widespread in machine learning; however, they are limited by the quadratic complexity of the construction, application, and storage of kernel matrices. Low-rank matrix approximation algorithms are widely used to address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-05 Ruoxi Wang , Yingzhou Li , Michael W. Mahoney , Eric Darve

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

The paper introduces new sufficient conditions of strict positive definiteness for kernels on d-dimensional spheres which are not radially symmetric but possess specific coefficient structures. The results use the series expansion of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Martin Buhmann , Janin Jäger

Positive definite kernels and their associated Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces provide a mathematically compelling and practically competitive framework for learning from data. In this paper we take the approximation theory point of view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Mikhail Belkin

Various methods in statistical learning build on kernels considered in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. In applications, the kernel is often selected based on characteristics of the problem and the data. This kernel is then employed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Paul Dommel , Alois Pichler

Fixed a continuous kernel K on the $d$-dimensional torus, we consider a generalization of the univariate $sk$-spline to the torus, associated with the kernel K. It is proved an estimate which provides the rate of convergence of a given…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Juliana Gaiba Oliveira , Sergio Antonio Tozoni

We consider the problem of improving kernel approximation via randomized feature maps. These maps arise as Monte Carlo approximation to integral representations of kernel functions and scale up kernel methods for larger datasets. Based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Marina Munkhoeva , Yermek Kapushev , Evgeny Burnaev , Ivan Oseledets

Accurate interpolation of functions and derivatives is crucial in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The Radial Basis Function (RBF) method has become an extremely popular and robust approach for interpolation on scattered data.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Amirhossein Fashamiha , David Salac

The problem of efficient approximation of a linear operator induced by the Gaussian or softmax kernel is often addressed using random features (RFs) which yield an unbiased approximation of the operator's result. Such operators emerge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Valerii Likhosherstov , Krzysztof Choromanski , Avinava Dubey , Frederick Liu , Tamas Sarlos , Adrian Weller

A nearly optimal explicitly-sparse representation for oscillatory kernels is presented in this work by developing a curvelet based method. Multilevel curvelet-like functions are constructed as the transform of the original nodal basis. Then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Yanchuang Cao , Jun Liu , Dawei Chen

Random feature approximation is arguably one of the most widely used techniques for kernel methods in large-scale learning algorithms. In this work, we analyze the generalization properties of random feature methods, extending previous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

Learning kernels in operators from data lies at the intersection of inverse problems and statistical learning, providing a powerful framework for capturing non-local dependencies in function spaces and high-dimensional settings. In contrast…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sichong Zhang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu

Random Fourier Features (RFF) demonstrate wellappreciated performance in kernel approximation for largescale situations but restrict kernels to be stationary and positive definite. And for non-stationary kernels, the corresponding RFF could…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-15 Qin Luo , Kun Fang , Jie Yang , Xiaolin Huang

The success of kernel-based learning methods depend on the choice of kernel. Recently, kernel learning methods have been proposed that use data to select the most appropriate kernel, usually by combining a set of base kernels. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Arash Afkanpour , Csaba Szepesvari , Michael Bowling

Low-rank approximation of kernels is a fundamental mathematical problem with widespread algorithmic applications. Often the kernel is restricted to an algebraic variety, e.g., in problems involving sparse or low-rank data. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jason M. Altschuler , Pablo A. Parrilo

Many algorithms for the computation of correspondences between deformable shapes rely on some variant of nearest neighbor matching in a descriptor space. Such are, for example, various point-wise correspondence recovery algorithms used as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Matthias Vestner , Roee Litman , Emanuele Rodolà , Alex Bronstein , Daniel Cremers

Kernel methods are one of the cornerstones of learning-based control, modern system identification, surrogate modelling, and related fields. A key advantage of this class of learning and function approximation methods is the availability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Tizian Wenzel , Abdullah Tokmak , Christian Fiedler