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Kernel-based methods in Numerical Analysis have the advantage of yielding optimal recovery processes in the "native" Hilbert space $\calh$ in which they are reproducing. Continuous kernels on compact domains have an expansion into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Gabriele Santin , Robert Schaback

We propose a method for the approximation of high- or even infinite-dimensional feature vectors, which play an important role in supervised learning. The goal is to reduce the size of the training data, resulting in lower storage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-06 Patrick Gelß , Stefan Klus , Ingmar Schuster , Christof Schütte

This article develops direct and inverse estimates for certain finite dimensional spaces arising in kernel approximation. Both the direct and inverse estimates are based on approximation spaces spanned by local Lagrange functions which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Thomas Hangelbroek , Francis J. Narcowich , Christian Rieger , Joseph D. Ward

Despite a variety of available techniques the issue of the proper regularization parameter choice for inverse problems still remains one of the biggest challenges. The main difficulty lies in constructing a rule, allowing to compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Ernesto De Vito , Massimo Fornasier , Valeriya Naumova

We propose a framework for 2D shape analysis using positive definite kernels defined on Kendall's shape manifold. Different representations of 2D shapes are known to generate different nonlinear spaces. Due to the nonlinearity of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

We study in this paper a smoothness regularization method for functional linear regression and provide a unified treatment for both the prediction and estimation problems. By developing a tool on simultaneous diagonalization of two positive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Ming Yuan , T. Tony Cai

Kernel interpolation is a fundamental technique for approximating functions from scattered data, with a well-understood convergence theory when interpolating elements of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Beyond this classical setting,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Toni Karvonen , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

This paper presents a convergence analysis of kernel-based quadrature rules in misspecified settings, focusing on deterministic quadrature in Sobolev spaces. In particular, we deal with misspecified settings where a test integrand is less…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Motonobu Kanagawa , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Kenji Fukumizu

In this paper, we introduce a superconvergent approximation method that employs radial basis functions (RBFs) in the numerical solution of conservation laws. The use of RBFs for interpolation and approximation is a well developed area of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Andrew Christlieb , William Sands , Hyoseon Yang

Kernel quadrature is widely used to approximate integrals of smooth functions, with worst-case error typically decaying at the minimax rate $n^{-\alpha/d}$ for smoothness $\alpha$ in dimension $d$. Existing rate-optimal methods often depend…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-19 Edoardo Bandoni , Christian Robert , Julien Stoehr

Random features is one of the most popular techniques to speed up kernel methods in large-scale problems. Related works have been recognized by the NeurIPS Test-of-Time award in 2017 and the ICML Best Paper Finalist in 2019. The body of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-13 Fanghui Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Yudong Chen , Johan A. K. Suykens

For the past 30 years or so, machine learning has stimulated a great deal of research in the study of approximation capabilities (expressive power) of a multitude of processes, such as approximation by shallow or deep neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hrushikesh Mhaskar

The problem of establishing out-of-sample bounds for the values of an unkonwn ground-truth function is considered. Kernels and their associated Hilbert spaces are the main formalism employed herein along with an observational model where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Paul Scharnhorst , Emilio T. Maddalena , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones

This paper focuses on parameter selection issues of kernel ridge regression (KRR). Due to special spectral properties of KRR, we find that delicate subdivision of the parameter interval shrinks the difference between two successive KRR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shao-Bo Lin

We study kernel quadrature rules with convex weights. Our approach combines the spectral properties of the kernel with recombination results about point measures. This results in effective algorithms that construct convex quadrature rules…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Satoshi Hayakawa , Harald Oberhauser , Terry Lyons

In this article we present a modification of classical Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation techniques aimed at reducing oscillations near discontinuities in one and two dimensions. Our approach introduces an adaptive mechanism by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 José Kuruc , David Levin , Pep Mulet , Juan Ruiz-Álvarez , Dionisio F. Yáñez

This paper develops a frequentist solution to the functional calibration problem, where the value of a calibration parameter in a computer model is allowed to vary with the value of control variables in the physical system. The need of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-20 Rui Tuo , Shiyuan He , Arash Pourhabib , Yu Ding , Jianhua Z. Huang

We prove rates of convergence in the statistical sense for kernel-based least squares regression using a conjugate gradient algorithm, where regularization against overfitting is obtained by early stopping. This method is directly related…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-30 Gilles Blanchard , Nicole Kraemer

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

Interpolation and approximation of functionals with conditionally positive definite kernels is considered on sets of centers that are not determining for polynomials. It is shown that polynomial consistency is sufficient in order to define…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Oleg Davydov