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We propose an optimal algorithm for estimating conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) when response functions lie in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). We study settings in which the contrast function is structurally simpler…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-25 Seok-Jin Kim

This survey provides an overview of optimal estimation of linear functionals which depend on the unknown values of a stationary stochastic sequence. Based on observations of the sequence without noise as well as observations of the sequence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Mikhail Moklyachuk

Estimating the kernel mean in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space is a critical component in many kernel learning algorithms. Given a finite sample, the standard estimate of the target kernel mean is the empirical average. Previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xiaobo Xia , Shuo Shan , Mingming Gong , Nannan Wang , Fei Gao , Haikun Wei , Tongliang Liu

Regularization is used to find a solution that both fits the data and is sufficiently smooth, and thereby is very effective for designing and refining learning algorithms. But the influence of its exponent remains poorly understood. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-15 Julien Audiffren , Hachem Kadri

The minimization of a data-fidelity term and an additive regularization functional gives rise to a powerful framework for supervised learning. In this paper, we present a unifying regularization functional that depends on an operator and on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Michael Unser

We demonstrate an equivalence between reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embeddings of conditional distributions and vector-valued regressors. This connection introduces a natural regularized loss function which the RKHS embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Steffen Grünewälder , Guy Lever , Luca Baldassarre , Sam Patterson , Arthur Gretton , Massimilano Pontil

In functional data analysis (FDA), covariance function is fundamental not only as a critical quantity for understanding elementary aspects of functional data but also as an indispensable ingredient for many advanced FDA methods. This paper…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-24 Raymond K. W. Wong , Xiaoke Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of regression to reconstruct functions, which are observed with superimposed errors at random locations. We address the problem in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. It is demonstrated that the estimator,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Paul Dommel , Alois Pichler

Estimating linear, mean-square continuous functionals is a pivotal challenge in statistics. In high-dimensional contexts, this estimation is often performed under the assumption of exact model sparsity, meaning that only a small number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Jelena Bradic , Victor Chernozhukov , Whitney K. Newey , Yinchu Zhu

In this paper we consider two closely related problems : estimation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the covariance kernel of functional data based on (possibly) irregular measurements, and the problem of estimating the eigenvalues and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Debashis Paul , Jie Peng

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) are key elements of many non-parametric tools successfully used in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. In this work, we aim to address three issues of the classical RKHS based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Maria Peifer , Luiz. F. O. Chamon , Santiago Paternain , Alejandro Ribeiro

In the misspecified kernel ridge regression problem, researchers usually assume the underground true function $f_{\rho}^{*} \in [\mathcal{H}]^{s}$, a less-smooth interpolation space of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) $\mathcal{H}$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Haobo Zhang , Yicheng Li , Weihao Lu , Qian Lin

In this work, we investigate the generalization properties of random feature methods. Our analysis extends prior results for Tikhonov regularization to a broad class of spectral regularization techniques and further generalizes the setting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

Mutual information (MI) is an information-theoretic measure of dependency between two random variables. Several methods to estimate MI, from samples of two random variables with unknown underlying probability distributions have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 P Aditya Sreekar , Ujjwal Tiwari , Anoop Namboodiri

We study the approximation of a square-integrable function from a finite number of evaluations on a random set of nodes according to a well-chosen distribution. This is particularly relevant when the function is assumed to belong to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-13 Ayoub Belhadji , Rémi Bardenet , Pierre Chainais

Kernel Adaptive Filtering (KAF) are mathematically principled methods which search for a function in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. While they work well for tasks such as time series prediction and system identification they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Benjamin Colburn , Jose C. Principe , Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo

Under the reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), we consider the penalized least-squares of the partially functional linear models (PFLM), whose predictor contains both functional and traditional multivariate parts, and the multivariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Huiming Zhang , Xiaoyu Lei

Traditional functional linear regression usually takes a one-dimensional functional predictor as input and estimates the continuous coefficient function. Modern applications often generate two-dimensional covariates, which become matrices…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-26 Dan Yang , Jianlong Shao , Haipeng Shen , Hongtu Zhu

This paper proposes a multivariate nonlinear function-on-function regression model, which allows both the response and the covariates can be multi-dimensional functions. The model is built upon the multivariate functional reproducing kernel…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-28 Xu Haijie , Zhang Chen

In this paper, we extend the correspondence between Bayesian estimation and optimal smoothing in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) adding a convexe constraints on the solution. Through a sequence of approximating Hilbertian spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 X Bay , Laurence Grammont
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