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A mathematical model for variable selection in functional regression models with scalar response is proposed. By "variable selection" we mean a procedure to replace the whole trajectories of the functional explanatory variables with their…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-21 José R. Berrendero , Beatriz Bueno-Larraz , Antonio Cuevas

Data-driven machine learning models are being increasingly employed in several important inference problems in biology, chemistry, and physics which require learning over combinatorial spaces. Recent empirical evidence (see, e.g., [1], [2],…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Amirali Aghazadeh , Nived Rajaraman , Tony Tu , Kannan Ramchandran

Many scientific studies collect data where the response and predictor variables are both functions of time, location, or some other covariate. Understanding the relationship between these functional variables is a common goal in these…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-12 Xiaoxiao Sun , Pang Du , Xiao Wang , Ping Ma

So-called functional error estimators provide a valuable tool for reliably estimating the discretization error for a sum of two convex functions. We apply this concept to Tikhonov regularization for the solution of inverse problems for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Christian Clason , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Daniel Wachsmuth

We describe a method to perform functional operations on probability distributions of random variables. The method uses reproducing kernel Hilbert space representations of probability distributions, and it is applicable to all operations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-14 Bernhard Schölkopf , Krikamol Muandet , Kenji Fukumizu , Jonas Peters

In this paper we study the kernel multiple ridge regression framework, which we refer to as multi-task regression, using penalization techniques. The theoretical analysis of this problem shows that the key element appearing for an optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Matthieu Solnon , Sylvain Arlot , Francis Bach

We consider the problem of clustering a sample of probability distributions from a random distribution on $\mathbb R^p$. Our proposed partitioning method makes use of a symmetric, positive-definite kernel $k$ and its associated reproducing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-23 Amparo Baíllo , Jose R. Berrendero , Martín Sánchez-Signorini

To solve convex optimization problems with a noisy gradient input, we analyze the global behavior of subgradient-like flows under stochastic errors. The objective function is composite, being equal to the sum of two convex functions, one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Jalal Fadili , Hedy Attouch

These notes provide a self-contained introduction to kernel methods and their geometric foundations in machine learning. Starting from the construction of Hilbert spaces, we develop the theory of positive definite kernels, reproducing…

Inspired by several recent developments in regularization theory, optimization, and signal processing, we present and analyze a numerical approach to multi-penalty regularization in spaces of sparsely represented functions. The sparsity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Valeriya Naumova , Steffen Peter

Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has enjoyed a lot of success in many machine learning and statistical applications, including non-parametric hypothesis testing, because of its ability to handle non-Euclidean data. Recently, it has been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Omar Hagrass , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Bing Li

We consider high-dimensional measurement errors with high-frequency data. Our objective is on recovering the high-dimensional cross-sectional covariance matrix of the random errors with optimality. In this problem, not all components of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Jinyuan Chang , Qiao Hu , Cheng Liu , Cheng Yong Tang

This paper develops a framework for the estimation of the functional mean and the functional principal components when the functions form a random field. More specifically, the data we study consist of curves $X(\mathbf{s}_k;t),t\in[0,T]$,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Siegfried Hörmann , Piotr Kokoszka

High-dimensional matrix regression has been studied in various aspects, such as statistical properties, computational efficiency and application to specific instances including multivariate regression, system identification and matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

This paper is concerned with functional learning by utilizing two-stage sampled distribution regression. We study a multi-penalty regularization algorithm for distribution regression under the framework of learning theory. The algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zhan Yu , Daniel W. C. Ho

Calibration ensures that probabilistic forecasts meaningfully capture uncertainty by requiring that predicted probabilities align with empirical frequencies. However, many existing calibration methods are specialized for post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Charles Marx , Sofian Zalouk , Stefano Ermon

This paper proposes a method for constructing one-step prediction tubes for nonlinear systems using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We approximate a bounded reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) hypothesis set by a finite-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Jannis Lübsen , Annika Eichler

In this work we investigate the relationship between kernel regularity and algorithmic performance in the bandit optimization of RKHS functions. While reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods traditionally rely on global kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-08 Madison Lee , Tara Javidi

Statistical machine learning plays an important role in modern statistics and computer science. One main goal of statistical machine learning is to provide universally consistent algorithms, i.e., the estimator converges in probability or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-18 Andreas Christmann , Florian Dumpert , Dao-Hong Xiang

We propose a novel procedure for estimating and conducting inference on average marginal effects in partially linear instrumental regressions using Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space methods. Our procedure relies on a single regularization…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-04-14 Lucas Girard , Elia Lapenta