• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: Near-Optimal Coresets of Kernel Density Estimates
  • Contributor: Phillips, Jeff M. [Author]; Tai, Wai Ming [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.66
  • Keywords: Discrepancy ; Kernel Density Estimate ; Coresets
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  • Description: We construct near-optimal coresets for kernel density estimate for points in R^d when the kernel is positive definite. Specifically we show a polynomial time construction for a coreset of size O(sqrt{d log (1/epsilon)}/epsilon), and we show a near-matching lower bound of size Omega(sqrt{d}/epsilon). The upper bound is a polynomial in 1/epsilon improvement when d in [3,1/epsilon^2) (for all kernels except the Gaussian kernel which had a previous upper bound of O((1/epsilon) log^d (1/epsilon))) and the lower bound is the first known lower bound to depend on d for this problem. Moreover, the upper bound restriction that the kernel is positive definite is significant in that it applies to a wide-variety of kernels, specifically those most important for machine learning. This includes kernels for information distances and the sinc kernel which can be negative.
  • Access State: Open Access