Fast Spectrum Estimation of Some Kernel Matrices

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Autor principal: Lepilov, Mikhail
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author Lepilov, Mikhail
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contents In data science, individual observations are often assumed to come independently from an underlying probability space. Kernel matrices formed from large sets of such observations arise frequently, for example during classification tasks. It is desirable to know the eigenvalue decay properties of these matrices without explicitly forming them, such as when determining if a low-rank approximation is feasible. In this work, we introduce a new eigenvalue quantile estimation framework for some kernel matrices. This framework gives meaningful bounds for all the eigenvalues of a kernel matrix while avoiding the cost of constructing the full matrix. The kernel matrices under consideration come from a kernel with quick decay away from the diagonal applied to uniformly-distributed sets of points in Euclidean space of any dimension. We prove the efficacy of this framework given certain bounds on the kernel function, and we provide empirical evidence for its accuracy. In the process, we also prove a general interlacing-type theorem for finite sets of numbers. Additionally, we indicate an application of this framework to the study of the intrinsic dimension of data, as well as several other directions in which to generalize this work.
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Lepilov, Mikhail
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
In data science, individual observations are often assumed to come independently from an underlying probability space. Kernel matrices formed from large sets of such observations arise frequently, for example during classification tasks. It is desirable to know the eigenvalue decay properties of these matrices without explicitly forming them, such as when determining if a low-rank approximation is feasible. In this work, we introduce a new eigenvalue quantile estimation framework for some kernel matrices. This framework gives meaningful bounds for all the eigenvalues of a kernel matrix while avoiding the cost of constructing the full matrix. The kernel matrices under consideration come from a kernel with quick decay away from the diagonal applied to uniformly-distributed sets of points in Euclidean space of any dimension. We prove the efficacy of this framework given certain bounds on the kernel function, and we provide empirical evidence for its accuracy. In the process, we also prove a general interlacing-type theorem for finite sets of numbers. Additionally, we indicate an application of this framework to the study of the intrinsic dimension of data, as well as several other directions in which to generalize this work.
title Fast Spectrum Estimation of Some Kernel Matrices
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00657