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20162026
most citedA Rigorous Theory of Conditional Mean Embeddings

32 citations · 91 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

math.DS2026

Verifiable Regularity Criterion for Conditional Expectation Operators and Conditional Mean Embeddings with Applications to Nonparametric Regression, Bayesian Inverse Problems, and Koopman Operators

Maximiliano Hertel, Ilja Klebanov, Manuel Schaller +1

Conditional expectation operators (CEOs) and their associated conditional mean embeddings (CMEs) play a central role across applied mathematics and machine learning, appearing in n…

math.ST2026

Error Bounds for Importance Sampling with Estimated Proposal Distributions

Cathrine Aeckerle-Willems, Ilja Klebanov, Simon Weissmann

Importance sampling with data-driven proposal distributions is widely used in practice. A common workflow first generates an auxiliary sample of size from an approximation of t…

stat.ME2026

Mixture-Weighted Ensemble Kalman Filter with Quasi-Monte Carlo Transport

Ilja Klebanov, Claudia Schillings, Dana Wrischnig

The Bootstrap Particle Filter (BPF) and the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) are two widely used methods for sequential Bayesian filtering: the BPF is asymptotically exact but can suf…

math.NA2025

Lattice Rules Meet Kernel Cubature

Vesa Kaarnioja, Ilja Klebanov, Claudia Schillings +1

Rank-1 lattice rules are a class of equally weighted quasi-Monte Carlo methods that achieve essentially linear convergence rates for functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space…

stat.ML2024

Deterministic Fokker-Planck Transport -- With Applications to Sampling, Variational Inference, Kernel Mean Embeddings & Sequential Monte Carlo

Ilja Klebanov

The Fokker-Planck equation can be reformulated as a continuity equation, which naturally suggests using the associated velocity field in particle flow methods. While the resulting…

math.NA2023★ 2 cited

Transporting Higher-Order Quadrature Rules: Quasi-Monte Carlo Points and Sparse Grids for Mixture Distributions

Ilja Klebanov, T. J. Sullivan

Integration against, and hence sampling from, high-dimensional probability distributions is of essential importance in many application areas and has been an active research area f…

cs.IT2023

Coherent set identification via direct low rank maximum likelihood estimation

Robert Polzin, Ilja Klebanov, Nikolas Nüsken +1

We analyze connections between two low rank modeling approaches from the last decade for treating dynamical data. The first one is the coherence problem (or coherent set approach),…

math.PR2023

Classification of small-ball modes and maximum a posteriori estimators in metric spaces

Ilja Klebanov, Hefin Lambley, T. J. Sullivan

A mode, or `most likely point', for a probability measure can be defined in various ways via the asymptotic behaviour of the -mass of balls as their radius tends to zero. Su…

math.ST2023

Graph Convex Hull Bounds as generalized Jensen Inequalities

Ilja Klebanov

Jensen's inequality is ubiquitous in measure and probability theory, statistics, machine learning, information theory and many other areas of mathematics and data science. It state…

math.ST2022★ 10 cited

Maximum a posteriori estimators in are well-defined for diagonal Gaussian priors

Ilja Klebanov, Philipp Wacker

We prove that maximum a posteriori estimators are well-defined for diagonal Gaussian priors on under common assumptions on the potential . Further, we show connecti…

math.ST2021★ 11 cited

Γ-convergence of Onsager-Machlup functionals. Part II: Infinite product measures on Banach spaces

Birzhan Ayanbayev, Ilja Klebanov, Han Cheng Lie +1

We derive Onsager-Machlup functionals for countable product measures on weighted subspaces of the sequence space . Each measure in the product is…

math.ST2021★ 18 cited

Γ-convergence of Onsager-Machlup functionals. Part I: With applications to maximum a posteriori estimation in Bayesian inverse problems

Birzhan Ayanbayev, Ilja Klebanov, Han Cheng Lie +1

The Bayesian solution to a statistical inverse problem can be summarised by a mode of the posterior distribution, i.e. a MAP estimator. The MAP estimator essentially coincides with…

math.ST2020★ 9 cited

The linear conditional expectation in Hilbert space

Ilja Klebanov, Björn Sprungk, T. J. Sullivan

The linear conditional expectation (LCE) provides a best linear (or rather, affine) estimate of the conditional expectation and hence plays an important rôle in approximate Bayesia…

math.ST2019★ 32 cited

A Rigorous Theory of Conditional Mean Embeddings

Ilja Klebanov, Ingmar Schuster, T. J. Sullivan

Conditional mean embeddings (CMEs) have proven themselves to be a powerful tool in many machine learning applications. They allow the efficient conditioning of probability distribu…

math.FA2018★ 1 cited

Adaptive Convolutions

Ilja Klebanov

When smoothing a function via convolution with some kernel, it is often desirable to adapt the amount of smoothing locally to the variation of . For this purpose, the consta…

math.ST2018★ 7 cited

Axiomatic Approach to Variable Kernel Density Estimation

Ilja Klebanov

Variable kernel density estimation allows the approximation of a probability density by the mean of differently stretched and rotated kernels centered at given sampling points $y_n…

stat.ML2018★ 1 cited

Markov Chain Importance Sampling -- a highly efficient estimator for MCMC

Ingmar Schuster, Ilja Klebanov

Markov chain (MC) algorithms are ubiquitous in machine learning and statistics and many other disciplines. Typically, these algorithms can be formulated as acceptance rejection met…

stat.ME2016

Empirical Bayes Methods for Prior Estimation in Systems Medicine

Ilja Klebanov, Alexander Sikorski, Christof Schütte +1

One of the main goals of mathematical modeling in systems medicine related to medical applications is to obtain patient-specific parameterizations and model predictions. In clinica…

stat.ME2016

Objective Priors in the Empirical Bayes Framework

Ilja Klebanov, Alexander Sikorski, Christof Schütte +1

When dealing with Bayesian inference the choice of the prior often remains a debatable question. Empirical Bayes methods offer a data-driven solution to this problem by estimating…