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Let $\{f(t): t\in T\}$ be a smooth Gaussian random field over a parameter space $T$, where $T$ may be a subset of Euclidean space or, more generally, a Riemannian manifold. For any local maximum of $f(t)$ located at $t_0$ in the interior of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Dan Cheng , Armin Schwartzman

We study the matrix discrepancy problem in the average-case setting. Given a sequence of $m \times m$ symmetric matrices $A_1,\ldots,A_n$, its discrepancy is defined as the minimal spectral norm over all signed sums $\sum_{i=1}^n x_iA_i$…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Dmitriy Kunisky , Timm Oertel , Nicola Wengiel , Peiyuan Zhang

Random matrix ensembles are introduced that respect the local tensor structure of Hamiltonians describing a chain of $n$ distinguishable spin-half particles with nearest-neighbour interactions. We prove a central limit theorem for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 J. P. Keating , N. Linden , H. J. Wells

Given an observation $\mathbf Y \in \mathbb{R}^{d_1\times d_2}$ from the model $\mathbf Y = \mathbf X + \mathbf E$ where $\mathbf X$ is constant and $\mathbf E$ has i.i.d. $N(0,1)$ entries, we consider the problem of detecting a planted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Parker Knight , Julien Chhor

Finding the mean of the total number of stationary points for N-dimensional random Gaussian landscapes can be reduced to averaging the absolute value of characteristic polynomial of the corresponding Hessian. First such a reduction is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Yan V Fyodorov

In the paper [25], written in collaboration with Gesine Reinert, we proved a universality principle for the Gaussian Wiener chaos. In the present work, we aim at providing an original example of application of this principle in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-02-08 Ivan Nourdin , Giovanni Peccati

For an $n\times n$ Laplacian random matrix $L$ with Gaussian entries it is proven that the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue and the largest diagonal entry of $L/\sqrt{n-1}$ are Gumbel. We first establish suitable non-asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Santiago Arenas-Velilla , Victor Pérez-Abreu

Motivated by the problem of fast processing of attention matrices, we study fast algorithms for computing matrix-vector products for asymmetric Gaussian Kernel matrices $K\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$. $K$'s columns are indexed by a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Piotr Indyk , Michael Kapralov , Kshiteej Sheth , Tal Wagner

We consider distributed estimation of the inverse covariance matrix, also called the concentration or precision matrix, in Gaussian graphical models. Traditional centralized estimation often requires global inference of the covariance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhaoshi Meng , Dennis Wei , Ami Wiesel , Alfred O. Hero

We describe Generalized Hermitian matrices ensemble sometimes called Chiral ensemble. We give global asymptotic of the density of eigenvalues or the statistical density. We will calculate a Laplace transform of such a density for finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Mohamed Bouali

Under certain conditions on k we calculate the limit distribution of the k:th largest eigenvalue, x_k, of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE). More specifically, if n is the dimension of a random matrix from the GUE and k is such that both…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Jonas Gustavsson

This article provides an original understanding of the behavior of a class of graph-oriented semi-supervised learning algorithms in the limit of large and numerous data. It is demonstrated that the intuition at the root of these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Xiaoyi Mai , Romain Couillet

We calculate analytically the probability of large deviations from its mean of the largest (smallest) eigenvalue of random matrices belonging to the Gaussian orthogonal, unitary and symplectic ensembles. In particular, we show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 David S. Dean , Satya N. Majumdar

We investigate the local spectral statistics of the loss surface Hessians of artificial neural networks, where we discover excellent agreement with Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble statistics across several network architectures and datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Nicholas P Baskerville , Diego Granziol , Jonathan P Keating

The problem of matrix sensing, or trace regression, is a problem wherein one wishes to estimate a low-rank matrix from linear measurements perturbed with noise. A number of existing works have studied both convex and nonconvex approaches to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Joshua Agterberg , René Vidal

Large random matrices appear in different fields of mathematics and physics such as combinatorics, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, number theory, quantum field theory, string theory etc... In the last ten years, they…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alice Guionnet

We observe a $N\times M$ matrix of independent, identically distributed Gaussian random variables which are centered except for elements of some submatrix of size $n\times m$ where the mean is larger than some $a>0$. The submatrix is sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Cristina Butucea , Yuri I. Ingster , Irina Suslina

The Gaussian and Laguerre orthogonal ensembles are fundamental to random matrix theory, and the marginal eigenvalue distributions are basic observable quantities. Notwithstanding a long history, a formulation providing high precision…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Peter J. Forrester , Santosh Kumar , Bo-Jian Shen

We study the problem of learning latent variables in Gaussian graphical models. Existing methods for this problem assume that the precision matrix of the observed variables is the superposition of a sparse and a low-rank component. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

We consider $N\times N$ Hermitian random matrices with independent identically distributed entries (Wigner matrices). The matrices are normalized so that the average spacing between consecutive eigenvalues is of order $1/N$. Under suitable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-13 Laszlo Erdos , Benjamin Schlein , Horng-Tzer Yau