Marcus M. Noack

A General Kernel Framework for Non-CND Distance Measures Using |D|-Dimensional Sparse Landmark Embeddings

Kernel methods, and Gaussian Processes (GPs) in particular, require a Hilbertian distance measure---one whose square is conditionally negative definite (CND)---to guarantee positive semi-definiteness (PSD) of the kernel matrix; a condition that fails for many natural input spaces, including smooth manifolds and spaces...