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Kernel embeddings of distributions and the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), the resulting distance between distributions, are useful tools for fully nonparametric two-sample testing and learning on distributions. However, it is rarely that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Ho Chung Leon Law , Christopher Yau , Dino Sejdinovic

The widespread adoption of the \emph{maximum mean discrepancy} (MMD) in goodness-of-fit testing has spurred extensive research on its statistical performance. However, recent studies indicate that the inherent structure of MMD may constrain…

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We provide an algorithm to approximate a finitely supported discrete measure $\mu$ by a measure $\nu_{N}$ corresponding to a set of $N$ points so that the total variation between $\mu$ and $\nu_N$ has an upper bound. As a consequence if…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Samantha Fairchild , Max Goering , Christian Weiß

The rate of normal approximation for the integral norm of kernel density estimators is investigated in the case of densities with power-type singularities. The quantities from the formulations of published results by the author are…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Andrei Yu. Zaitsev

This paper studies convergence of empirical risks in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). A conventional assumption in the existing research is that empirical training data do not contain any noise but this may not be satisfied in some…

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In this work, we study the tradeoffs between the error probabilities of classical-quantum channels and the blocklength $n$ when the transmission rates approach the channel capacity at a rate slower than $1/\sqrt{n}$, a research topic known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Hao-Chung Cheng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We introduce a new information-theoretic formulation of quantum measurement uncertainty relations, based on the notion of relative entropy between measurement probabilities. In the case of a finite-dimensional system and for any approximate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti , Alessandro Toigo

Approximation of a target probability distribution using a finite set of points is a problem of fundamental importance in numerical integration. Several authors have proposed to select points by minimising a maximum mean discrepancy (MMD),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-13 Zonghao Chen , Toni Karvonen , Heishiro Kanagawa , François-Xavier Briol , Chris. J. Oates

The effect of errors in variables in empirical minimization is investigated. Given a loss $l$ and a set of decision rules $\mathcal{G}$, we prove a general upper bound for an empirical minimization based on a deconvolution kernel and a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-09 Sébastien Loustau

Kernel discrepancies are a powerful tool for analyzing worst-case errors in quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. Building on recent advances in optimizing such discrepancy measures, we extend the subset selection problem to the setting of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-05 Deyao Chen , François Clément , Carola Doerr , Nathan Kirk

Let $\mu_N$ be the empirical measure associated to a $N$-sample of a given probability distribution $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. We are interested in the rate of convergence of $\mu_N$ to $\mu$, when measured in the Wasserstein distance of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Nicolas Fournier , Arnaud Guillin

Kernel Stein discrepancies (KSDs) have emerged as a powerful tool for quantifying goodness-of-fit over the last decade, featuring numerous successful applications. To the best of our knowledge, all existing KSD estimators with known rate…

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Given a probability measure $\mu$ on the unit circle $\mathbb{T}$, consider the reproducing kernel $k_{\mu,n}(z_1, z_2)$ in the space of polynomials of degree at most $n-1$ with the $L^2(\mu)$-inner product. Let $u, v \in \mathbb{C}$. It is…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Roman Bessonov

The approximation of probability measures on compact metric spaces and in particular on Riemannian manifoldsby atomic or empirical ones is a classical task in approximation and complexity theory with a wide range of applications. Instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Martin Ehler , Manuel Gräf , Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

We study optimal solutions to an abstract optimization problem for measures, which is a generalization of classical variational problems in information theory and statistical physics. In the classical problems, information and relative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Roman V. Belavkin

Quantum information processing is limited, in practice, to efficiently implementable operations. This motivates the study of quantum divergences that preserve their operational meaning while faithfully capturing these computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Álvaro Yángüez , Thomas A. Hahn , Jan Kochanowski

Let $\mu$ be an even Borel probability measure on ${\mathbb R}$. For every $N>n$ consider $N$ independent random vectors $\vec{X}_1,\ldots ,\vec{X}_N$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$, with independent coordinates having distribution $\mu $. We establish…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Minas Pafis

We study methods based on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces for estimating the value function of an infinite-horizon discounted Markov reward process (MRP). We study a regularized form of the kernel least-squares temporal difference (LSTD)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-27 Yaqi Duan , Mengdi Wang , Martin J. Wainwright

Nonparametric estimation of nonlocal interaction kernels is crucial in various applications involving interacting particle systems. The inference challenge, situated at the nexus of statistical learning and inverse problems, arises from the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Xiong Wang , Inbar Seroussi , Fei Lu

We study a random matching problem on closed compact $2$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds (with respect to the squared Riemannian distance), with samples of random points whose common law is absolutely continuous with respect to the volume…

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