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Kernel k-means clustering can correctly identify and extract a far more varied collection of cluster structures than the linear k-means clustering algorithm. However, kernel k-means clustering is computationally expensive when the non-linear feature map is high-dimensional and there are many input points. Kernel …
The Nystrom method is a popular technique that uses a small number of landmark points to compute a fixed-rank approximation of large kernel matrices that arise in machine learning problems. In practice, to ensure high quality approximations, the number of landmark points is chosen to be greater than the target rank. Ho…
We give the first algorithm for kernel Nyström approximation that runs in *linear time in the number of training points* and is provably accurate for all kernel matrices, without dependence on regularity or incoherence conditions. The algorithm projects the kernel onto a set of s landmark points sampled by their *rid…
We develop an improved bound for the approximation error of the Nyström method under the assumption that there is a large eigengap in the spectrum of kernel matrix. This is based on the empirical observation that the eigengap has a significant impact on the approximation error of the Nyström method. Our approach is bas…
The Nystrom method has been popular for generating the low-rank approximation of kernel matrices that arise in many machine learning problems. The approximation quality of the Nystrom method depends crucially on the number of selected landmark points and the selection procedure. In this paper, we present a novel algori…
The Nyström methods have been popular techniques for scalable kernel based learning. They approximate explicit, low-dimensional feature mappings for kernel functions from the pairwise comparisons with the training data. However, Nyström methods are generally applied without the supervision provided by the training labe…
Incremental versions of batch algorithms are often desired, for increased time efficiency in the streaming data setting, or increased memory efficiency in general. In this paper we present a novel algorithm for incremental kernel PCA, based on rank one updates to the eigendecomposition of the kernel matrix, which is mo…
The Nystrom method is an efficient technique used to speed up large-scale learning applications by generating low-rank approximations. Crucial to the performance of this technique is the assumption that a matrix can be well approximated by working exclusively with a subset of its columns. In this work we relate this as…
This paper describes a new method for low rank kernel approximation called IKA. The main advantage of IKA is that it produces a function ψ(x) defined as a linear combination of arbitrarily chosen functions. In contrast the approximation produced by Nyström method is a linear combination of kernel evaluations. The pro…
Simulating the time-evolution of quantum mechanical systems is BQP-hard and expected to be one of the foremost applications of quantum computers. We consider classical algorithms for the approximation of Hamiltonian dynamics using subsampling methods from randomized numerical linear algebra. We derive a simulation tech…
Diffusion maps are an emerging data-driven technique for non-linear dimensionality reduction, which are especially useful for the analysis of coherent structures and nonlinear embeddings of dynamical systems. However, the computational complexity of the diffusion maps algorithm scales with the number of observations. T…
The GMM (generalized min-max) kernel was recently proposed (Li, 2016) as a measure of data similarity and was demonstrated effective in machine learning tasks. In order to use the GMM kernel for large-scale datasets, the prior work resorted to the (generalized) consistent weighted sampling (GCWS) to convert the GMM ker…
The Sinkhorn "distance", a variant of the Wasserstein distance with entropic regularization, is an increasingly popular tool in machine learning and statistical inference. However, the time and memory requirements of standard algorithms for computing this distance grow quadratically with the size of the data, making th…