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Nonlinear kernels can be approximated using finite-dimensional feature maps for efficient risk minimization. Due to the inherent trade-off between the dimension of the (mapped) feature space and the approximation accuracy, the key problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Shahin Shahrampour , Vahid Tarokh

The reconstruction of an unknown quantity from noisy measurements is a mathematical problem relevant in most applied sciences, for example, in medical imaging, radar inverse scattering, or astronomy. This underlying mathematical problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Nina M. Gottschling , David Iagaru , Jakob Gawlikowski , Ioannis Sgouralis

Kernel method has been developed as one of the standard approaches for nonlinear learning, which however, does not scale to large data set due to its quadratic complexity in the number of samples. A number of kernel approximation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Lingfei Wu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jie Chen , Rui Yan

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

The paper is concerned with classic kernel interpolation methods, in addition to approximation methods that are augmented by gradient measurements. To apply kernel interpolation using radial basis functions (RBFs) in a stable way, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Akil Narayan , Liang Yan , Tao Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive kernel for the radial basis function (RBF) neural networks. The proposed kernel adaptively fuses the Euclidean and cosine distance measures to exploit the reciprocating properties of the two. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-10 Shujaat Khan , Imran Naseem , Roberto Togneri , Mohammed Bennamoun

We study kernel methods in machine learning from the perspective of feature subspace. We establish a one-to-one correspondence between feature subspaces and kernels and propose an information-theoretic measure for kernels. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Xiangxiang Xu , Lizhong Zheng

An infinitely wide model is a weighted integration $\int \varphi(x,v) d \mu(v)$ of feature maps. This model excels at handling an infinite number of features, and thus it has been adopted to the theoretical study of deep learning. Kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-08 Sho Sonoda

We consider the global minimization of smooth functions based solely on function evaluations. Algorithms that achieve the optimal number of function evaluations for a given precision level typically rely on explicitly constructing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Alessandro Rudi , Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Francis Bach

We present a method to match three dimensional shapes under non-isometric deformations, topology changes and partiality. We formulate the problem as matching between a set of pair-wise and point-wise descriptors, imposing a continuity prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Zorah Lähner , Matthias Vestner , Amit Boyarski , Or Litany , Ron Slossberg , Tal Remez , Emanuele Rodolà , Alex Bronstein , Michael Bronstein , Ron Kimmel , Daniel Cremers

Random Fourier features is one of the most popular techniques for scaling up kernel methods, such as kernel ridge regression. However, despite impressive empirical results, the statistical properties of random Fourier features are still not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Haim Avron , Michael Kapralov , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh

This article studies the problem of approximating functions belonging to a Hilbert space $H_d$ with an isotropic or anisotropic Gaussian reproducing kernel, $$ K_d(\bx,\bt) = \exp\left(-\sum_{\ell=1}^d\gamma_\ell^2(x_\ell-t_\ell)^2\right) \…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Gregory E. Fasshauer , Fred J. Hickernell , Henryk Woźniakowski

Approximation using Fourier features is a popular technique for scaling kernel methods to large-scale problems, with myriad applications in machine learning and statistics. This method replaces the integral representation of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Ayoub Belhadji , Qianyu Julie Zhu , Youssef Marzouk

Over the past few decades, kernel-based approximation methods had achieved astonishing success in solving different problems in the field of science and engineering. However, when employing the direct or standard method of performing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Davoud Moazami , Mohsen Esmaeilbeigi , Tahereh Akbari

We produce precise estimates for the Kogbetliantz kernel for the approximation of functions on the sphere. Furthermore, we propose and study a new approximation kernel, which has slightly better properties.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Peter J. Grabner

Kernel based methods provide a way to reconstruct potentially high-dimensional functions from meshfree samples, i.e., sampling points and corresponding target values. A crucial ingredient for this to be successful is the distribution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin , Bernard Haasdonk

We show in this note that the Sobolev Discrepancy introduced in Mroueh et al in the context of generative adversarial networks, is actually the weighted negative Sobolev norm $||.||_{\dot{H}^{-1}(\nu_q)}$, that is known to linearize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Youssef Mroueh

Existing large-dimensional theory for spectral algorithms resolves either the optimally tuned point or the interpolation limit, but leaves the under-regularized regime unexplored. We study the learning curve and benign overfitting of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Weihao Lu , Qian Lin , Yingcun Xia , Dongming Huang

Kernel methods are widely used in machine learning, especially for classification problems. However, the theoretical analysis of kernel classification is still limited. This paper investigates the statistical performances of kernel…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Jianfa Lai , Zhifan Li , Dongming Huang , Qian Lin

The basic problem of shape complementarity analysis appears fundamental to applications as diverse as mechanical design, assembly automation, robot motion planning, micro- and nano-fabrication, protein-ligand binding, and rational drug…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Morad Behandish , Horea T. Ilies