Reduced Rank Multivariate Kernel Ridge Regression

In the multivariate regression, also referred to as multi-task learning in machine learning, the goal is to recover a vector-valued function based on noisy observations. The vector-valued function is often assumed to be of low rank. Although the multivariate linear regression is extensively studied in the literature, a theoretical study on the multivariate nonlinear regression is lacking. In this paper, we study reduced rank multivariate kernel ridge regression, proposed by citemukherjee2011reduced. We prove the consistency of the function predictor and provide the convergence rate. An algorithm based on nuclear norm relaxation is proposed. A few numerical examples are presented to show the smaller mean squared prediction error comparing with the elementwise univariate kernel ridge regression.