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Lipschitz bounds for integral kernels

Reverdi, Justin, Zhang, Sixin, Gamboa, Fabrice, Gratton, Serge

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Feature maps associated with positive definite kernels play a central role in kernel methods and learning theory, where regularity properties such as Lipschitz continuity are closely related to robustness and stability guarantees. Despite their importance, explicit characterizations of the Lipschitz constant of kernel feature maps are available only in a limited number of cases. In this paper, we study the Lipschitz regularity of feature maps associated with integral kernels under differentiability assumptions. We first provide sufficient conditions ensuring Lipschitz continuity and derive explicit formulas for the corresponding Lipschitz constants. We then identify a condition under which the feature map fails to be Lipschitz continuous and apply these results to several important classes of kernels. For infinite width two-layer neural network with isotropic Gaussian weight distributions, we show that the Lipschitz constant of the associated kernel can be expressed as the supremum of a two-dimensional integral, leading to an explicit characterization for the Gaussian kernel and the ReLU random neural network kernel. We also study continuous and shift-invariant kernels such as Gaussian, Laplace, and Matérn kernels, which admit an interpretation as neural network with cosine activation function. In this setting, we prove that the feature map is Lipschitz continuous if and only if the weight distribution has a finite second-order moment, and we then derive its Lipschitz constant. Finally, we raise an open question concerning the asymptotic behavior of the convergence of the Lipschitz constant in finite width neural networks. Numerical experiments are provided to support this behavior.






Metric space valued Fréchet regression

Györfi, László, Humbert, Pierre, Bars, Batiste Le

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We consider the problem of estimating the Fréchet and conditional Fréchet mean from data taking values in separable metric spaces. Unlike Euclidean spaces, where well-established methods are available, there is no practical estimator that works universally for all metric spaces. Therefore, we introduce a computable estimator for the Fréchet mean based on random quantization techniques and establish its universal consistency across any separable metric spaces. Additionally, we propose another estimator for the conditional Fréchet mean, leveraging data-driven partitioning and quantization, and demonstrate its universal consistency when the output space is any Banach space.




Learning Functional Transduction

Neural Information Processing Systems

In contrast, deep learning research has mostly endeavored to find inductive solutions, relying on stochastic gradient descent to faithfully encode functional relationships described by large datasets into the weights of a neural network.