arXiv Machine Learning

Random Projections for Spectral Algorithms: Optimal Rates in Sobolev Norms

The paper studies random projections (RP) for spectral algorithms, providing a comprehensive analysis of their generalization performance under broad conditions. By exploiting the RKHS embedding property and operator similarity, it establishes optimal learning rates in Sobolev norms that match minimax lower bounds up to logarithmic factors. For common RP implementations—randomized sketches and Nyström sub-sampling—the required projection dimension scales with the effective dimension, reducing computational cost while preserving statistical efficiency.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Minimax Lower Bounds of Kernel Discrepancy Estimation: MMD, HSIC, KSD

arXiv:2607. 24235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past 20 years, kernel discrepancies have been leveraged as a highly powerful tool for quantifying the disagreement of distributions, with numerous successful applications in two-sample, goodness-of-fit, and independence testing, among others.

By Jose Cribeiro-Ramallo, Florian Kalinke, Zolt\'an Szab\'o
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Fast Learning Rates for Physics-Informed Kernel Methods

arXiv:2609. 18901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In physics-informed machine learning, a target function $u^*$ is learned from noisy value observations $y_i=u^*(x_i)+ \varepsilon_i$, together with differential information, given either by noisy observations $d_j=(Du^*)(z_j)+\xi_j$ or by a known physical constraint $Du^*=v$.

By Luc Brogat-Motte, Joachim Bona-Pellissier, Giacomo Meanti, Lorenzo Rosasco
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 12

Approximating Uniform Random Rotations by Two-Stage Structured Hadamard Rotations in High Dimensions

The paper investigates how well two-stage structured Hadamard rotations approximate uniform random rotations in high-dimensional spaces. It establishes nonasymptotic upper bounds of order √{log d/d} for one-dimensional marginals, while showing a persistent Wasserstein-1 discrepancy for the full vector that does not vanish as dimension grows. These results highlight a separation between marginal and joint approximation quality, though they do not directly translate into algorithmic performance guarantees.

By Tomer Zilca, Gal Mendelson
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Bernstein-Schur Kernels: Random Features by Sketched Modulation and Radial Randomization

arXiv:2606. 11255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bernstein--Schur kernels are products of a finite-feature kernel (one with an explicit finite-dimensional feature map) and a completely monotone shift-invariant kernel: nonstationary kernels that fall between the shift-invariant and dot-product templates random features usually exploit, so in general neither Bochner sampling nor polynomial sketching applies to the full kernel directly.

By Taha Bouhsine
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

The Sample Complexity of Learning Lipschitz Operators with respect to Gaussian Measures

The paper investigates how many linear samples are needed to learn Lipschitz operators under Gaussian measures. It establishes both lower and upper bounds on the Hermite polynomial approximation error and shows that the minimal worst‑case error cannot converge algebraically with the number of samples. However, if the covariance operator of the Gaussian measure decays rapidly, convergence rates arbitrarily close to any algebraic rate can be achieved.

By Ben Adcock, Michael Griebel, Gregor Maier
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

Improving TensorSketch Using Complex Random Variables

\texttt{TensorSketch} by~\cite{pham2013fast,kar2012random} provides efficient sketching algorithms for high-dimensional polynomial kernels $\vec{x}^{\otimes p} \in \R^{d^p}$. \cite{kar2012random} uses dense Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL)-type projections with computational cost $O(pDd)$, where $D$ denotes the sketch dimension, whereas~\cite{pham2013fast} extends the sparse \texttt{CountSketch}~\citep{count_sketch} algorithm, yielding a faster algorithm for high-dimensional sparse inputs with running time $O\big(p(\nnz{\vec{x}} + D \log D)\big)$.