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In this paper we show how specific families of positive definite kernels serve as powerful tools in analyses of iteration algorithms for multiple layer feedforward Neural Network models. Our focus is on particular kernels that adapt well to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song , James Tian

Quantum kernel methods are a promising method in quantum machine learning thanks to the guarantees connected to them. Their accessibility for analytic considerations also opens up the possibility of prescreening datasets based on their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Sebastian Egginger , Alona Sakhnenko , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

In this paper, we study the spectrum and the eigenvectors of radial kernels for mixtures of distributions in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Our approach focuses on high dimensions and relies solely on the concentration properties of the components in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-07 David Cohen-Steiner , Alba Chiara de Vitis

Models like support vector machines or Gaussian process regression often require positive semi-definite kernels. These kernels may be based on distance functions. While definiteness is proven for common distances and kernels, a proof for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Günter Rudolph

In this work, we propose a parameterised quantum circuit learning approach to point set matching problem. In contrast to previous annealing-based methods, we propose a quantum circuit-based framework whose parameters are optimised via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Hanchen Wang

The notion of a (polynomial) kernelization from parameterized complexity is a well-studied model for efficient preprocessing for hard computational problems. By now, it is quite well understood which parameterized problems do or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Leonid Antipov , Stefan Kratsch

Kernel methods are fundamental tools in machine learning that allow detection of non-linear dependencies between data without explicitly constructing feature vectors in high dimensional spaces. A major disadvantage of kernel methods is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Thomas D. Ahle , Michael Kapralov , Jakob B. T. Knudsen , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker , David Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

The problem of estimating the kernel mean in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) is central to kernel methods in that it is used by classical approaches (e.g., when centering a kernel PCA matrix), and it also forms the core inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-05 Krikamol Muandet , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Bernhard Schölkopf

Kernel methods are an important class of techniques in machine learning. To be effective, good feature maps are crucial for mapping non-linearly separable input data into a higher dimensional (feature) space, thus allowing the data to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Rowan Pellow-Jarman , Anban Pillay , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

Spectral kernel methods are techniques for transforming data into a coordinate system that efficiently reveals the geometric structure - in particular, the "connectivity" - of the data. These methods depend on certain tuning parameters. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-11-04 Ann B. Lee , Larry Wasserman

Genomic sequence analysis plays a crucial role in various scientific and medical domains. Traditional machine-learning approaches often struggle to capture the complex relationships and hierarchical structures of sequence data when working…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Sarwan Ali , Haris Mansoor , Murray Patterson

We present the discrete version of heat kernel smoothing on graph data structure. The method is used to smooth data in an irregularly shaped domains in 3D images. New statistical properties are derived. As an application, we show how to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-24 Moo K. Chung , Yanli Wang , Gurong Wu

Kernels are often developed and used as implicit mapping functions that show impressive predictive power due to their high-dimensional feature space representations. In this study, we gradually construct a series of simple feature maps that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Gurhan Ceylan , S. Ilker Birbil

Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces provide a foundational framework for kernel-based learning, where regularization and interpolation problems admit finite-dimensional solutions through classical representer theorems. Many modern learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Isabel de la Higuera , Francisco Herrera , M. Victoria Velasco

Domain specific (dis-)similarity or proximity measures used e.g. in alignment algorithms of sequence data, are popular to analyze complex data objects and to cover domain specific data properties. Without an underlying vector space these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Andrej Gisbrecht , Frank-Michael Schleif

Coarse-grained models are a core computational tool in theoretical chemistry and biophysics. A judicious choice of a coarse-grained model can yield physical insight by isolating the essential degrees of freedom that dictate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Shriram Chennakesavalu , David J. Toomer , Grant M. Rotskoff

The results on the heat kernel expansion for the electromagnetic field in the background of dielectric media are briefly reviewed. The common approaches to the calculation of the heat kernel coefficients are discussed from the viewpoint of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Irina Pirozhenko

Targeting simulations on parallel hardware architectures, this paper presents computational kernels for efficient computations in mortar finite element methods. Mortar methods enable a variationally consistent imposition of coupling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Matthias Mayr , Alexander Popp

Automated tuning of compute kernels is a popular area of research, mainly focused on finding optimal kernel parameters for a problem with fixed input sizes. This approach is good for deploying machine learning models, where the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 John Lawson

Kernel methods are powerful machine learning techniques which implement generic non-linear functions to solve complex tasks in a simple way. They Have a solid mathematical background and exhibit excellent performance in practice. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 J. Emmanuel Johnson , Valero Laparra , Adrián Pérez-Suay , Miguel D. Mahecha , Gustau Camps-Valls