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Supervised learning methods with missing data have been extensively studied not just due to the techniques related to low-rank matrix completion. Also in unsupervised learning one often relies on imputation methods. As a matter of fact,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Andreas Elsener , Sara van de Geer

We study distributed principal component analysis (PCA) in high-dimensional settings under the spiked model. In such regimes, sample eigenvectors can deviate significantly from population ones, introducing a persistent bias. Existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-29 Weiming Li , Zeng Li , Siyu Wang , Yanqing Yin , Junpeng Zhu

We study the asymptotic distributions of the spiked eigenvalues and the largest nonspiked eigenvalue of the sample covariance matrix under a general covariance matrix model with divergent spiked eigenvalues, while the other eigenvalues are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Tony Cai , Xiao Han , Guangming Pan

This work studies estimation of sparse principal components in high dimensions. Specifically, we consider a class of estimators based on kernel PCA, generalizing the covariance thresholding algorithm proposed by Krauthgamer et al. (2015).…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Michael J. Feldman , Theodor Misiakiewicz , Elad Romanov

Given underdetermined measurements of a Positive Semi-Definite (PSD) matrix $X$ of known low rank $K$, we present a new algorithm to estimate $X$ based on recent advances in non-convex optimization schemes. We apply this in particular to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Marcus Carlsson , Daniele Gerosa

Reduced-rank regression recognises the possibility of a rank-deficient matrix of coefficients. We propose a novel Bayesian model for estimating the rank of the coefficient matrix, which obviates the need for post-processing steps and allows…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-14 Maria F. Pintado , Matteo Iacopini , Luca Rossini , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff

In this paper, we study a spiked Wigner problem with an inhomogeneous noise profile. Our aim in this problem is to recover the signal passed through an inhomogeneous low-rank matrix channel. While the information-theoretic performances are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Aleksandr Pak , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala

We investigate the properties of a class of piecewise-fractional maps arising from the introduction of an invariance under rescaling into convex quadratic maps. The subsequent maps are quasiconvex, and pseudoconvex on specific convex cones;…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Alexandra Zverovich , Matthew Hutchings , Bertrand Gauthier

Learning kernels in operators from data lies at the intersection of inverse problems and statistical learning, providing a powerful framework for capturing non-local dependencies in function spaces and high-dimensional settings. In contrast…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sichong Zhang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu

In this paper, we study a new notion of scaled minimaxity for sparse estimation in high-dimensional linear regression model. We present more optimistic lower bounds than the one given by the classical minimax theory and hence improve on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Mohamed Ndaoud

This paper presents a new method for estimating high dimensional covariance matrices. The method, permuted rank-penalized least-squares (PRLS), is based on a Kronecker product series expansion of the true covariance matrix. Assuming an…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-25 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Alfred O. Hero

Principal component analysis (PCA) requires the computation of a low-rank approximation to a matrix containing the data being analyzed. In many applications of PCA, the best possible accuracy of any rank-deficient approximation is at most a…

Computation · Statistics 2010-06-04 Vladimir Rokhlin , Arthur Szlam , Mark Tygert

In this paper we show error bounds for randomly subsampled rank-1 lattices. We pay particular attention to the ratio of the size of the subset to the size of the initial lattice, which is decisive for the computational complexity. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Felix Bartel , Alexander D. Gilbert , Frances Y. Kuo , Ian H. Sloan

Sparse covariance matrices play crucial roles by encoding the interdependencies between variables in numerous fields such as genetics and neuroscience. Despite substantial studies on sparse covariance matrices, existing methods face several…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-03 Rakheon Kim , Irina Gaynanova

In this paper, we investigate the almost sure convergence, in supremum norm, of the rank-based linear wavelet estimator for a multivariate copula density. Based on empirical process tools, we prove a uniform limit law for the deviation,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Cheikh Tidiane Seck , Salha Mamane

In this paper, we study regression problems over a separable Hilbert space with the square loss, covering non-parametric regression over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We investigate a class of spectral/regularized algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-18 Junhong Lin , Alessandro Rudi , Lorenzo Rosasco , Volkan Cevher

We propose a distributionally robust formulation for simultaneously estimating the covariance matrix and the precision matrix of a random vector.The proposed model minimizes the worst-case weighted sum of the Frobenius loss of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-19 Renjie Chen , Viet Anh Nguyen , Huifu Xu

The estimation of the diffusion matrix $\Sigma$ of a high-dimensional, possibly time-changed L\'evy process is studied, based on discrete observations of the process with a fixed distance. A low-rank condition is imposed on $\Sigma$.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Denis Belomestny , Mathias Trabs

This paper introduces a novel framework called Mode-wise Principal Subspace Pursuit (MOP-UP) to extract hidden variations in both the row and column dimensions for matrix data. To enhance the understanding of the framework, we introduce a…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-06 Runshi Tang , Ming Yuan , Anru R. Zhang

Estimating large covariance and precision matrices are fundamental in modern multivariate analysis. The problems arise from statistical analysis of large panel economics and finance data. The covariance matrix reveals marginal correlations…

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