Title
Cartesian Kernel: An Efficient Alternative To The Pairwise Kernel
Abstract
Pairwise classification has many applications including network prediction, entity resolution, and collaborative filtering. The pairwise kernel has been proposed for those purposes by several research groups independently, and has been used successfully in several fields. In this paper, we propose an efficient alternative which we call a Cartesian kernel. While the existing pairwise kernel (which we refer to as the Kronecker kernel) can be interpreted as the weighted adjacency matrix of the Kronecker product graph of two graphs, the Cartesian kernel can be interpreted as that of the Cartesian graph, which is more sparse than the Kronecker product graph. We discuss the generalization bounds of the two pairwise kernels by using eigenvalue analysis of the kernel matrices. Also, we consider the N-wise extensions of the two pairwise kernels. Experimental results show the Cartesian kernel is much faster than the Kronecker kernel, and at the same time, competitive with the Kronecker kernel in predictive performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1587/transinf.E93.D.2672
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
kernel methods, pairwise kernels, link prediction
Discrete mathematics,Radial basis function kernel,Kernel embedding of distributions,Computer science,Tree kernel,Kernel principal component analysis,Polynomial kernel,String kernel,Variable kernel density estimation,Kernel (statistics)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E93D
10
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.38
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hisashi Kashima11739118.04
Satoshi Oyama226534.67
Yoshihiro Yamanishi3126883.44
Koji Tsuda41664122.25