arXiv Machine Learning

Random features for Grassmannian kernel approximation with bounded rank-one projections

arXiv:2608. 04227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a family of random feature maps for scalable kernel machines on low-dimensional subspaces, ie on the Grassmannian manifold.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Kernel PCA for Out-of-Distribution Detection: Non-Linear Kernel Selection and Approximation

arXiv:2505. 15284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection is vital for the reliability of deep neural networks, the key of which lies in effectively characterizing the disparities between OoD and In-Distribution (InD) data.

By Kun Fang, Qinghua Tao, Mingzhen He, Kexin Lv, Runze Yang, Haibo Hu, Xiaolin Huang, Jie Yang, Longbing Cao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

gp2Scale: A Class of Compactly Supported Non-Stationary Kernels and Distributed Computing for Exact Gaussian Processes on 10 Million Data Points

arXiv:2512. 06143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite a large corpus of recent work on scaling up Gaussian processes, a stubborn trade-off between computational speed, prediction and uncertainty quantification accuracy, and customizability persists.

By Marcus M. Noack, Mark D. Risser, Hengrui Luo, Vardaan Tekriwal, Ronald J. Pandolfi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Expanding SPHERE-JEPA: A Family of Statistical Regularizers for the Hypersphere

arXiv:2606. 17603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), preventing representation collapse by explicitly enforcing a uniform distribution on the unit hypersphere has proven to be effective.

By L\'eo Nicollier (CB, ATT), Enric Meinhardt-Llopis (CB), Max Dunitz (ATT), Marc Pic (ATT), Pablo Mus\'e (CB, IFUMI), Gabriele Facciolo (CB)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

A General Kernel Framework for Non-CND Distance Measures Using |D|-Dimensional Sparse Landmark Embeddings

The paper introduces the Sparse Landmark Embedding (SLE) kernel, a new framework that removes the need for conditionally negative definite (CND) distance measures in kernel methods and Gaussian Processes. By embedding each input into a sparse feature vector using compactly supported bump functions centered at all training points, any standard positive semi-definite (PSD) kernel can be applied in this embedding space, guaranteeing PSD for arbitrary distance measures. The authors provide theoretical guarantees on PSD, sparsity, stability, and universal approximation, and show through experiments with geodesic and Wasserstein distances that the SLE kernel matches or surpasses domain-specific baselines in predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification.

By Marcus M. Noack, Maher B. Alghalayini, Mark D. Risser
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Cut-ViT: Task-Specific Model Pruning via Gram Anchoring Subspace Consistency

Cut‑ViT introduces a task‑specific pruning pipeline for visual foundation models that uses gram anchoring matrices and subspace decomposition to align feature representations between native and pruned DINOv3 models. The method incorporates basis‑agnostic and residual constraints to preserve robustness across spatial and channel dimensions, and employs spectral entropy adaptation to tailor the pruning objective to downstream tasks. Experiments demonstrate that Cut‑ViT achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on six tasks across nine datasets while reducing pruning time to about one minute on a single A100 GPU, using only 20.9% of the time and 45.5% of the GPU memory compared to prior methods.

By Jianjian Yin, Liulei Li, Tao Chen, Yi Chen, Yazhou Yao, Wenguan Wang