Convergence Analysis of Nyström Subsampling in Covariate Shift Adaptation for Misspecified case

Abstract: This paper investigates convergence properties of regularized Nyström subsampling applied to the unsupervised domain adaptation problem under covariate shift. We focus on the low-smoothness (misspecified) case where the target function lies outside the reproducing kernel Hilbert space. By combining Tikhonov regularization with Nyström projection onto a subsampled subspace, we obtain upper bounds on the excess risk that hold with high probability and are expressed in terms of the source condition, the effective dimension, and the sample sizes. We further extend the analysis to the setting where the Radon-Nikodym derivative between the target and source marginal distributions is unknown and must be approximated, and we identify the minimal additional sample sizes required to maintain the same convergence rate as in the oracle case.