Near-optimal coresets of kernel density estimates

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Abstract: We construct near-optimal coresets for kernel density estimates for points in mathbbRd when the kernel is positive definite. Specifically we show a polynomial time construction for a coreset of size O(sqrtd/varepsiloncdotsqrtlog1/varepsilon), and we show a near-matching lower bound of size Omega(minsqrtd/varepsilon,1/varepsilon2). When dgeq1/varepsilon2, it is known that the size of coreset can be O(1/varepsilon2). The upper bound is a polynomial-in-(1/varepsilon) improvement when din[3,1/varepsilon2) 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.




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