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Kernel smoothing is a highly flexible and popular approach for estimation of probability density and intensity functions of continuous spatial data. In this role it also forms an integral part of estimation of functionals such as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-24 Tilman M. Davies , Jonathan C. Marshall , Martin L. Hazelton

This work introduces a kernel-independent, multilevel, adaptive algorithm for efficiently evaluating a discrete convolution kernel with a given source distribution. The method is based on linear algebraic tools such as low rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Anna Yesypenko , Chao Chen , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Many scientific problems involve data exhibiting both temporal and cross-sectional dependencies. While linear dependencies have been extensively studied, the theoretical analysis of regression estimators under nonlinear dependencies remains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Marie-Christine Düker , Adam Waterbury

The huge amount of available data nowadays is a challenge for kernel-based machine learning algorithms like SVMs with respect to runtime and storage capacities. Local approaches might help to relieve these issues and to improve statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-05 Florian Dumpert

This article describes a new class of prior distributions for nonparametric function estimation. The unknown function is modeled as a limit of weighted sums of kernels or generator functions indexed by continuous parameters that control…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Robert L. Wolpert , Merlise A. Clyde , Chong Tu

This paper studies approximation by shallow ReLU$^s$ networks, $\sigma_s(t)=\max\{0,t\}^s$, together with their generalization behavior under $\ell_1$ path-norm control. For the $L^p$-type integral spaces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Weizhao Li , Fanghui Liu , Lei Shi

This article establishes sharp inverse and saturation statements for kernel-based approximation using finitely smooth Sobolev kernels on bounded Lipschitz regions. The analysis focuses on the superconvergence regime, for which direct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Tizian Wenzel

We study model spaces, in the sense of Hairer, for stochastic partial differential equations involving the fractional Laplacian. We prove that the fractional Laplacian is a singular kernel suitable to apply the theory of regularity…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Nils Berglund , Christian Kuehn

For supervised classification problems, this paper considers estimating the query's label probability through local regression using observed covariates. Well-known nonparametric kernel smoother and $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) estimator,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-25 Ruixing Cao , Akifumi Okuno , Kei Nakagawa , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Estimation of the covariance structure of spatial processes is of fundamental importance in spatial statistics. In the literature, several non-parametric and semi-parametric methods have been developed to estimate the covariance structure…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-06 Shu Yang , Zhengyuan Zhu

This paper introduces a multilevel kernel-based approximation method to estimate efficiently solutions to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with periodic random coefficients. Building upon the work of Kaarnioja, Kazashi, Kuo,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Alexander D. Gilbert , Michael B. Giles , Frances Y. Kuo , Ian H. Sloan , Abirami Srikumar

In the spatial point process context, kernel intensity estimation has been mainly restricted to exploratory analysis due to its lack of consistency. Different methods have been analysed to overcome this problem, and the inclusion of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-21 M. I. Borrajo , W. González-Manteiga , M. D. Martínez-Miranda

Functional data registration is a critical challenge in modern statistics, essential for separating phase variability from amplitude variability. While derivative-based frameworks offer mathematically elegant solutions, their dependence on…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-15 Wei Wu

Representing, comparing, and measuring the distance between probability distributions is a key task in computational statistics and machine learning. The choice of representation and the associated distance determine properties of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-26 Masha Naslidnyk

We establish some higher differentiability results for solution to non-autonomous obstacle problems of the form \begin{equation*} \min \left\{\int_{\Omega}f\left(x, Dv(x)\right)dx\,:\, v\in \mathcal{K}_\psi(\Omega)\right\}, \end{equation*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Andrea Gentile , Raffaella Giova

This paper introduces an approach for detecting differences in the first-order structures of spatial point patterns. The proposed approach leverages the kernel mean embedding in a novel way by introducing its approximate version tailored to…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-15 Raif M. Rustamov , James T. Klosowski

We study recursive regularized learning algorithms in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) with non-stationary online data streams. We introduce the concept of random Tikhonov regularization path and decompose the tracking error of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiwei Zhang , Yan Chen , Tao Li

A kernel method for estimating a probability density function (pdf) from an i.i.d. sample drawn from such density is presented. Our estimator is a linear combination of kernel functions, the coefficients of which are determined by a linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Yoshihito Kazashi , Fabio Nobile

In this paper, we develop the theory of Sobolev spaces on locally finite graphs, including completeness, reflexivity, separability, and Sobolev inequalities. Since there is no exact concept of dimension on graphs, classical methods that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Mengqiu Shao , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

Most multivariate outlier detection procedures ignore the spatial dependency of observations, which is present in many real data sets from various application areas. This paper introduces a new outlier detection method that accounts for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-25 Patricia Puchhammer , Peter Filzmoser