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20122026
most citedA new stable basis for RBF approximation

82 citations · 433 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.LG2026

Differentiable Kernel Ridge Regression for Deep Learning Pipelines

Jean-Marc Mercier, Gabriele Santin

Deep neural networks dominate modern machine learning, while alternative function approximators remain comparatively underexplored at scale. In this work, we revisit kernel methods…

math.NA2026

Piecewise linear interpolation via kernels

Toni Karvonen, Gabriele Santin, Tizian Wenzel

We consider piecewise linear interpolation from the perspective of kernel interpolation and quadrature. If the Sobolev space is equipped with a suitable inner product…

math.NA2026

Refined rates of convergence for target-data dependent greedy generalized interpolation with Sobolev kernels

Bernard Haasdonk, Gabriele Santin, Tizian Wenzel +1

Greedy methods have recently been successfully applied to generalized kernel interpolation, or the recovery of a function from data stemming from the evaluation of linear functiona…

math.NA2026

On the optimal shape parameter for kernel methods: Sharp direct and inverse statements

Tizian Wenzel, Gabriele Santin

The search for the optimal shape parameter for Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel approximation has been an outstanding research problem for decades. In this work, we establish a t…

math.NA2025

Kernel-based Greedy Approximation of Parametric Elliptic Boundary Value Problems

Bernard Haasdonk, Gabriele Santin, Tizian Wenzel

We recently introduced a scale of kernel-based greedy schemes for approximating the solutions of elliptic boundary value problems. The procedure is based on a generalized interpola…

math.NA2025

General superconvergence for kernel-based approximation

Toni Karvonen, Gabriele Santin, Tizian Wenzel

Kernel interpolation is a fundamental technique for approximating functions from scattered data, with a well-understood convergence theory when interpolating elements of a reproduc…

stat.ME2025

An algorithm for a constrained P-spline

Rosanna Campagna, Serena Crisci, Gabriele Santin +2

Regression splines are largely used to investigate and predict data behavior, attracting the interest of mathematicians for their beautiful numerical properties, and of statisticia…

math.DS2024★ 9 cited

Kernel Methods for the Approximation of the Eigenfunctions of the Koopman Operator

Jonghyeon Lee, Boumediene Hamzi, Boya Hou +3

The Koopman operator provides a linear framework to study nonlinear dynamical systems. Its spectra offer valuable insights into system dynamics, but the operator can exhibit both d…

math.NA2023★ 8 cited

On the optimality of target-data-dependent kernel greedy interpolation in Sobolev Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Gabriele Santin, Tizian Wenzel, Bernard Haasdonk

Kernel interpolation is a versatile tool for the approximation of functions from data, and it can be proven to have some optimality properties when used with kernels related to cer…

math.NA2022

Interpolation with the polynomial kernels

Giacomo Elefante, Wolfgang Erb, Francesco Marchetti +3

The polynomial kernels are widely used in machine learning and they are one of the default choices to develop kernel-based classification and regression models. However, they are r…

math.NA2022★ 1 cited

Equally spaced points are optimal for Brownian Bridge kernel interpolation

Gabriele Santin

In this paper we show how ideas from spline theory can be used to construct a local basis for the space of translates of a general iterated Brownian Bridge kernel $k_{β,\varepsilon…

math.NA2022★ 4 cited

Adaptive meshfree approximation for linear elliptic partial differential equations with PDE-greedy kernel methods

Tizian Wenzel, Daniel Winkle, Gabriele Santin +1

We consider meshless approximation for solutions of boundary value problems (BVPs) of elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) via symmetric kernel collocation. We discuss th…

cs.LG2022

Reprogramming FairGANs with Variational Auto-Encoders: A New Transfer Learning Model

Beatrice Nobile, Gabriele Santin, Bruno Lepri +1

Fairness-aware GANs (FairGANs) exploit the mechanisms of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to impose fairness on the generated data, freeing them from both disparate impact an…

math.NA2022★ 4 cited

Stability of convergence rates: Kernel interpolation on non-Lipschitz domains

Tizian Wenzel, Gabriele Santin, Bernard Haasdonk

Error estimates for kernel interpolation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHS) usually assume quite restrictive properties on the shape of the domain, especially in the case…

math.NA2021★ 2 cited

Greedy algorithms for learning via exponential-polynomial splines

Rosanna Campagna, Stefano De Marchi, Emma Perracchione +1

Kernel-based schemes are state-of-the-art techniques for learning by data. In this work we extend some ideas about kernel-based greedy algorithms to exponential-polynomial splines,…

math.NA2021★ 7 cited

HJB-RBF based approach for the control of PDEs

Alessandro Alla, Hugo Oliveira, Gabriele Santin

Semi-lagrangian schemes for discretization of the dynamic programming principle are based on a time discretization projected on a state-space grid. The use of a structured grid mak…

math.NA2021★ 11 cited

Convergence analysis for image interpolation in terms of the cSSIM

Francesco Marchetti, Gabriele Santin

Assessing the similarity of two images is a complex task that attracts significant efforts in the image processing community. The widely used Structural Similarity Index Measure (S…

math.NA2021★ 36 cited

Analysis of target data-dependent greedy kernel algorithms: Convergence rates for -, - and -greedy

Tizian Wenzel, Gabriele Santin, Bernard Haasdonk

Data-dependent greedy algorithms in kernel spaces are known to provide fast converging interpolants, while being extremely easy to implement and efficient to run. Despite this expe…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Analysis of Structured Deep Kernel Networks

Tizian Wenzel, Gabriele Santin, Bernard Haasdonk

In this paper, we leverage a recent deep kernel representer theorem to connect kernel based learning and (deep) neural networks in order to understand their interplay. In particula…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Structured Deep Kernel Networks for Data-Driven Closure Terms of Turbulent Flows

Tizian Wenzel, Marius Kurz, Andrea Beck +2

Standard kernel methods for machine learning usually struggle when dealing with large datasets. We review a recently introduced Structured Deep Kernel Network (SDKN) approach that…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Kernel-Based Models for Influence Maximization on Graphs based on Gaussian Process Variance Minimization

Salvatore Cuomo, Wolfgang Erb, Gabriele Santin

The inference of novel knowledge, the discovery of hidden patterns, and the uncovering of insights from large amounts of data from a multitude of sources make Data Science (DS) to…

math.NA2020★ 32 cited

Kernel methods for center manifold approximation and a data-based version of the Center Manifold Theorem

Bernard Haasdonk, Boumediene Hamzi, Gabriele Santin +1

For dynamical systems with a non hyperbolic equilibrium, it is possible to significantly simplify the study of stability by means of the center manifold theory. This theory allows…

math.NA2020★ 2 cited

Biomechanical surrogate modelling using stabilized vectorial greedy kernel methods

Bernard Haasdonk, Tizian Wenzel, Gabriele Santin +1

Greedy kernel approximation algorithms are successful techniques for sparse and accurate data-based modelling and function approximation. Based on a recent idea of stabilization of…

math.NA2020★ 11 cited

Sampling based approximation of linear functionals in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Gabriele Santin, Toni Karvonen, Bernard Haasdonk

In this paper we analyze a greedy procedure to approximate a linear functional defined in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space by nodal values. This procedure computes a quadrature r…