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most citedGaussian Processes and Kernel Methods: A Review on Connections and Equivalences

184 citations · 315 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.LG2026

Machine-Learning Emulation of Satellite Greenhouse Gas Retrievals: Stability over Time

Nugzar Gognadze, Motonobu Kanagawa, Yu Someya +1

Retrieval algorithms are used to estimate atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), by solving inverse problems from hi…

cs.LG2026

Predictive Uncertainty in Short-Term PV Forecasting under Missing Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Parastoo Pashmchi, Jérôme Benoit, Motonobu Kanagawa

Missing values are common in photovoltaic (PV) power data, yet the uncertainty they induce is not propagated into predictive distributions. We develop a framework that incorporates…

stat.ML2025

kNNSampler: Stochastic Imputations for Recovering Missing Value Distributions

Parastoo Pashmchi, Jérôme Benoit, Motonobu Kanagawa

We study a missing-value imputation method, termed kNNSampler, that imputes a given unit's missing response by randomly sampling from the observed responses of the most similar…

stat.ML2025

Gaussian Processes and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces: Connections and Equivalences

Motonobu Kanagawa, Philipp Hennig, Dino Sejdinovic +1

This monograph studies the relations between two approaches using positive definite kernels: probabilistic methods using Gaussian processes, and non-probabilistic methods using rep…

stat.ME2024

Variable Selection for Comparing High-dimensional Time-Series Data

Kensuke Mitsuzawa, Margherita Grossi, Stefano Bortoli +1

Given a pair of multivariate time-series data of the same length and dimensions, an approach is proposed to select variables and time intervals where the two series are significant…

stat.ML2024

Fast Computation of Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation for -NN Regression

Motonobu Kanagawa

We describe a fast computation method for leave-one-out cross-validation (LOOCV) for -nearest neighbours (-NN) regression. We show that, under a tie-breaking condition for ne…

stat.ML2023

Variable Selection in Maximum Mean Discrepancy for Interpretable Distribution Comparison

Kensuke Mitsuzawa, Motonobu Kanagawa, Stefano Bortoli +2

We study two-sample variable selection: identifying variables that discriminate between the distributions of two sets of data vectors. Such variables help scientists understand the…

math.ST2023★ 3 cited

Comparing Scale Parameter Estimators for Gaussian Process Interpolation with the Brownian Motion Prior: Leave-One-Out Cross Validation and Maximum Likelihood

Masha Naslidnyk, Motonobu Kanagawa, Toni Karvonen +1

Gaussian process (GP) regression is a Bayesian nonparametric method for regression and interpolation, offering a principled way of quantifying the uncertainties of predicted functi…

stat.ML2023★ 2 cited

When is Importance Weighting Correction Needed for Covariate Shift Adaptation?

Davit Gogolashvili, Matteo Zecchin, Motonobu Kanagawa +2

This paper investigates when the importance weighting (IW) correction is needed to address covariate shift, a common situation in supervised learning where the input distributions…

stat.ML2022

Improved Random Features for Dot Product Kernels

Jonas Wacker, Motonobu Kanagawa, Maurizio Filippone

Dot product kernels, such as polynomial and exponential (softmax) kernels, are among the most widely used kernels in machine learning, as they enable modeling the interactions betw…

econ.GN2021★ 1 cited

Intergenerational risk sharing in a Defined Contribution pension system: analysis with Bayesian optimization

An Chen, Motonobu Kanagawa, Fangyuan Zhang

We study a fully funded, collective defined-contribution (DC) pension system with multiple overlapping generations. We investigate whether the welfare of participants can be improv…

stat.ML2021★ 3 cited

Connections and Equivalences between the Nyström Method and Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes

Veit Wild, Motonobu Kanagawa, Dino Sejdinovic

We investigate the connections between sparse approximation methods for making kernel methods and Gaussian processes (GPs) scalable to large-scale data, focusing on the Nyström met…

stat.ML2019★ 14 cited

Convergence Guarantees for Adaptive Bayesian Quadrature Methods

Motonobu Kanagawa, Philipp Hennig

Adaptive Bayesian quadrature (ABQ) is a powerful approach to numerical integration that empirically compares favorably with Monte Carlo integration on problems of medium dimensiona…

stat.ML2019

Model Selection for Simulator-based Statistical Models: A Kernel Approach

Takafumi Kajihara, Motonobu Kanagawa, Yuuki Nakaguchi +2

We propose a novel approach to model selection for simulator-based statistical models. The proposed approach defines a mixture of candidate models, and then iteratively updates the…

math.ST2018

On the positivity and magnitudes of Bayesian quadrature weights

Toni Karvonen, Motonobu Kanagawa, Simo Särkkä

This article reviews and studies the properties of Bayesian quadrature weights, which strongly affect stability and robustness of the quadrature rule. Specifically, we investigate…

stat.ML2018★ 6 cited

Simulator Calibration under Covariate Shift with Kernels

Keiichi Kisamori, Motonobu Kanagawa, Keisuke Yamazaki

We propose a novel calibration method for computer simulators, dealing with the problem of covariate shift. Covariate shift is the situation where input distributions for training…

stat.ML2018★ 184 cited

Gaussian Processes and Kernel Methods: A Review on Connections and Equivalences

Motonobu Kanagawa, Philipp Hennig, Dino Sejdinovic +1

This paper is an attempt to bridge the conceptual gaps between researchers working on the two widely used approaches based on positive definite kernels: Bayesian learning or infere…

stat.ML2018★ 1 cited

Counterfactual Mean Embeddings

Krikamol Muandet, Motonobu Kanagawa, Sorawit Saengkyongam +1

Counterfactual inference has become a ubiquitous tool in online advertisement, recommendation systems, medical diagnosis, and econometrics. Accurate modeling of outcome distributio…

stat.ML2018★ 10 cited

Kernel Recursive ABC: Point Estimation with Intractable Likelihood

Takafumi Kajihara, Motonobu Kanagawa, Keisuke Yamazaki +1

We propose a novel approach to parameter estimation for simulator-based statistical models with intractable likelihood. Our proposed method involves recursive application of kernel…

math.NA2017★ 5 cited

Convergence Analysis of Deterministic Kernel-Based Quadrature Rules in Misspecified Settings

Motonobu Kanagawa, Bharath K. Sriperumbudur, Kenji Fukumizu

This paper presents a convergence analysis of kernel-based quadrature rules in misspecified settings, focusing on deterministic quadrature in Sobolev spaces. In particular, we deal…

math.ST2017★ 62 cited

Large sample analysis of the median heuristic

Damien Garreau, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Motonobu Kanagawa

In kernel methods, the median heuristic has been widely used as a way of setting the bandwidth of RBF kernels. While its empirical performances make it a safe choice under many cir…

stat.ML2016★ 23 cited

Convergence guarantees for kernel-based quadrature rules in misspecified settings

Motonobu Kanagawa, Bharath K. Sriperumbudur, Kenji Fukumizu

Kernel-based quadrature rules are becoming important in machine learning and statistics, as they achieve super- convergence rates in numerical integration, and thus provi…

stat.ML2014

Model-based Kernel Sum Rule: Kernel Bayesian Inference with Probabilistic Models

Yu Nishiyama, Motonobu Kanagawa, Arthur Gretton +1

Kernel Bayesian inference is a principled approach to nonparametric inference in probabilistic graphical models, where probabilistic relationships between variables are learned fro…

stat.ML2013★ 1 cited

Filtering with State-Observation Examples via Kernel Monte Carlo Filter

Motonobu Kanagawa, Yu Nishiyama, Arthur Gretton +1

This paper addresses the problem of filtering with a state-space model. Standard approaches for filtering assume that a probabilistic model for observations (i.e. the observation m…