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48 results for empirical kernel matrix

Study shows deterministic equivalent for neural network kernel convergence.

problem Understanding convergence of neural network kernels.
method Analyzes empirical spectral distribution of Conjugate Kernel, proving convergence to a deterministic limit.
result Obtains a deterministic equivalent for the Stieltjes transform and resolvent of the Conjugate Kernel.

Recent studies utilize multiple kernel learning to deal with incomplete-data problem. In this study, we introduce new methods that do not only complete multiple incomplete kernel matrices simultaneously, but also allow control of the flexibility of the model by parameterizing the model matrix. By imposing restrictions …

2018-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Kernel PCA explains self-attention mechanisms in deep learning models.

problem Understanding and explaining self-attention mechanisms in deep learning models.
method Deriving self-attention from kernel principal component analysis (kernel PCA).
result RPC-Attention, a robust attention mechanism, outperforms softmax attention in various tasks.

Paper speeds up Gaussian process inference using Matérn kernels.

problem Efficiently performing Gaussian process inference for large datasets.
method Exact Matérn kernel decomposition into empirical cumulative distribution functions, combined with divide-and-conquer approach.
result The proposed algorithm significantly speeds up Gaussian process inference for low-dimensional problems with hundreds of thousands of data points.

Kernel clustering algorithm improved for large datasets using incomplete Cholesky factorization.

problem Large memory usage in kernel-based clustering for large-scale datasets.
method Approximate the kernel matrix using incomplete Cholesky factorization and apply linear kk-means clustering.
result The proposed method achieves similar performance to kernel kk-means clustering but handles large-scale datasets efficiently.

Paper connects neural networks to Gaussian processes for understanding double-descent.

problem Understanding the double-descent phenomenon in neural networks.
method Uses techniques from random matrix theory and Gaussian processes.
result Establishes a connection between NNGP and random matrix theory for neural networks.

Study reveals an equivalence principle for the spectrum of random inner-product kernel matrices in polynomial scaling.

problem Understanding the spectrum of random kernel matrices in polynomial scaling regimes.
method Investigates random matrices with nonlinear kernel functions applied to inner products of uniformly distributed vectors.
result The spectrum of the random kernel matrix is asymptotically equivalent to a simpler matrix model through free additive convolution.

Kernel methods are widespread in machine learning; however, they are limited by the quadratic complexity of the construction, application, and storage of kernel matrices. Low-rank matrix approximation algorithms are widely used to address this problem and reduce the arithmetic and storage cost. However, we observed tha…

2015-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a particle-based inference algorithm that leverages gradient information for efficient approximate inference. In this work, we enhance SVGD by leveraging preconditioning matrices, such as the Hessian and Fisher information matrix, to incorporate geometric information into SV…

2019-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Random matrix theory predicts neural representations generalize well.

problem Understanding why neural representations generalize well in practice.
method Applied random matrix theory to kernel regression and neural networks.
result GCV estimator accurately predicts generalization risk in overparameterized settings.

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) offer a powerful approach to modeling diversity in many applications where the goal is to select a diverse subset. We study the problem of learning the parameters (the kernel matrix) of a DPP from labeled training data. We make two contributions. First, we show how to reparameterize…

2014-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

With the huge influx of various data nowadays, extracting knowledge from them has become an interesting but tedious task among data scientists, particularly when the data come in heterogeneous form and have missing information. Many data completion techniques had been introduced, especially in the advent of kernel meth…

2017-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we propose a data-adaptive non-parametric kernel learning framework in margin based kernel methods. In model formulation, given an initial kernel matrix, a data-adaptive matrix with two constraints is imposed in an entry-wise scheme. Learning this data-adaptive matrix in a formulation-free strategy enlar…

2018-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The empirical NTK diverges from the NTK in classification problems during overtraining.

problem The divergence of empirical NTK from NTK in classification problems during overtraining.
method Demonstrated strictly positive definiteness of NTKs for FCNs and ResNets. Proved divergence of neural network parameters during training with cross-entropy loss.
result The empirical NTK does not uniformly converge to the NTK across all times on the training samples as the network width increases.

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 step of modern kernel methods (e.g., kernel-based non-parametric tests) that rel…

2014-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2012-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

One approach to improving the running time of kernel-based machine learning methods is to build a small sketch of the input and use it in lieu of the full kernel matrix in the machine learning task of interest. Here, we describe a version of this approach that comes with running time guarantees as well as improved guar…

2014-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

This work improves knowledge distillation by transferring full kernel matrices efficiently.

problem Efficiently transferring full pairwise similarity matrices for model compression in deep learning.
method The authors propose a method to transfer the full similarity matrix effectively using the Nyström method, decomposing it into partial matrices.
result The difference between the full kernel matrices of teacher and student can be well bounded by partial matrices, improving optimization efficiency.

We present an intriguing discovery related to Random Fourier Features: in Gaussian kernel approximation, replacing the random Gaussian matrix by a properly scaled random orthogonal matrix significantly decreases kernel approximation error. We call this technique Orthogonal Random Features (ORF), and provide theoretical…

2016-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a new MCMC-based Wishart prior for Gaussian Process covariance matrix.

problem Difficult inference for multivariate Gaussian Processes with multiple lengthscale parameters.
method Introduces a self-assembled Wishart prior and uses MCMC for Bayesian inference on kernel hyperparameters.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the new prior in GP-based learning with empirical results.

A well-recognized limitation of kernel learning is the requirement to handle a kernel matrix, whose size is quadratic in the number of training examples. Many methods have been proposed to reduce this computational cost, mostly by using a subset of the kernel matrix entries, or some form of low-rank matrix approximatio…

2014-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe how cross-kernel matrices, that is, kernel matrices between the data and a custom chosen set of `feature spanning points' can be used for learning. The main potential of cross-kernels lies in the fact that (a) only one side of the matrix scales with the number of data points, and (b) cross-kernels, as oppos…

2014-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning representations of nodes in a low dimensional space is a crucial task with many interesting applications in network analysis, including link prediction and node classification. Two popular approaches for this problem include matrix factorization and random walk-based models. In this paper, we aim to bring toge…

2019-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel Newton method for large-scale kernel methods using random features.

problem Efficiently solving large-scale finite-sum minimization problems in RKHS.
method Randomized feature-based Newton method for empirical risk minimization.
result Local superlinear and global linear convergence of the method.

The kernel embedding algorithm is an important component for adapting kernel methods to large datasets. Since the algorithm consumes a major computation cost in the testing phase, we propose a novel teacher-learner framework of learning computation-efficient kernel embeddings from specific data. In the framework, the h…

2017-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper presents a method to reduce computational and storage costs in PCA and spectral clustering.

problem Efficiently reducing computational and storage costs in PCA and spectral clustering.
method Randomly 'puncturing' the data matrix and kernel matrix through Bernoulli masks.
result The spectral behavior of the resulting kernel is fully tractable and can be drastically punctured without significant loss in performance.

A determinantal point process (DPP) is a probabilistic model of set diversity compactly parameterized by a positive semi-definite kernel matrix. To fit a DPP to a given task, we would like to learn the entries of its kernel matrix by maximizing the log-likelihood of the available data. However, log-likelihood is non-co…

2014-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of metric learning subject to a set of constraints on relative-distance comparisons between the data items. Such constraints are meant to reflect side-information that is not expressed directly in the feature vectors of the data items. The relative-distance constraints used in this work are part…

2016-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

This work incorporates the multi-modality of the data distribution into a Gaussian Process regression model. We approach the problem from a discriminative perspective by learning, jointly over the training data, the target space variance in the neighborhood of a certain sample through metric learning. We start by using…

2018-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Constructing the adjacency graph is fundamental to graph-based clustering. Graph learning in kernel space has shown impressive performance on a number of benchmark data sets. However, its performance is largely determined by the chosen kernel matrix. To address this issue, the previous multiple kernel learning algorith…

2019-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We extend kernelized matrix factorization with a fully Bayesian treatment and with an ability to work with multiple side information sources expressed as different kernels. Kernel functions have been introduced to matrix factorization to integrate side information about the rows and columns (e.g., objects and users in …

2012-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗