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This paper addresses the problem of estimating the Hermitian Toeplitz covariance matrix under practical hardware constraints of sparse observations and coarse quantization. Within the triangular-dithered quantization framework, we propose…

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Portfolio managers faced with limited sample sizes must use factor models to estimate the covariance matrix of a high-dimensional returns vector. For the simplest one-factor market model, success rests on the quality of the estimated…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-14 Hubeyb Gurdogan , Alec Kercheval

Estimating time-varying correlation matrices is challenging because existing methods may adapt slowly to structural changes, impose insufficient regularization, or produce diffuse posterior uncertainty. In moderate dimensions, an additional…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-11 Daniel Andrew Coulson , David S. Matteson , Martin T. Wells

We address structured covariance estimation in Elliptical distribution. We assume it is a priori known that the covariance belongs to a given convex set, e.g., the set of Toeplitz or banded matrices. We consider the General Method of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Ilya Soloveychik , Ami Wiesel

Discovering the underlying low dimensional structure of high dimensional data has attracted a significant amount of researches recently and has shown to have a wide range of applications. As an effective dimension reduction tool, singular…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-09 Chencheng Cai , Rong Chen , Han Xiao

In many real-world problems, complex dependencies are present both among samples and among features. The Kronecker sum or the Cartesian product of two graphs, each modeling dependencies across features and across samples, has been used as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-21 Jun Ho Yoon , Seyoung Kim

This paper considers the regularized estimation of covariance matrices (CM) of high-dimensional (compound) Gaussian data for minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming. Linear shrinkage is applied to improve the accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Lei Xie , Zishu He , Jun Tong , Jun Li , Jiangtao Xi

We develop the information geometry of scaled Gaussian distributions for which the covariance matrix exhibits a Kronecker product structure. This model and its geometry are then used to propose an online change detection (CD) algorithm for…

Applications · Statistics 2023-12-06 Ammar Mian , Guillaume Ginolhac , Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy

In this article, we derive concentration inequalities for the spectral norm of two classical sample estimators of large dimensional Toeplitz covariance matrices, demonstrating in particular their asymptotic almost sure consistence. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Julia Vinogradova , Romain Couillet , Walid Hachem

We address structured covariance estimation in elliptical distributions by assuming that the covariance is a priori known to belong to a given convex set, e.g., the set of Toeplitz or banded matrices. We consider the General Method of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Ilya Soloveychik , Ami Wiesel

Subspace clustering is a useful technique for many computer vision applications in which the intrinsic dimension of high-dimensional data is often smaller than the ambient dimension. Spectral clustering, as one of the main approaches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Xianglong Liu , Jun Zhou , Hancock Edwin

We consider a problem of covariance estimation from a sample of i.i.d. high-dimensional random vectors. To avoid the curse of dimensionality, we impose an additional assumption on the structure of the covariance matrix $\Sigma$. To be more…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Artsiom Patarusau , Nikita Puchkin , Maxim Rakhuba , Fedor Noskov

Electroencephalographic signals are represented as multidimensional datasets. We introduce an enhancement to the augmented covariance method (ACM), exploiting more thoroughly its mathematical properties, in order to improve motor imagery…

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Covariance matrix estimation and principal component analysis (PCA) are two cornerstones of multivariate analysis. Classic textbook solutions perform poorly when the dimension of the data is of a magnitude similar to the sample size, or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Olivier Ledoit , Michael Wolf

We propose a test for a covariance matrix to have Kronecker Product Structure (KPS). KPS implies a reduced rank restriction on a certain transformation of the covariance matrix and the new procedure is an adaptation of the Kleibergen and…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-02-01 Patrik Guggenberger , Frank Kleibergen , Sophocles Mavroeidis

We study the sample complexity of estimating the covariance matrix $T$ of a distribution $\mathcal{D}$ over $d$-dimensional vectors, under the assumption that $T$ is Toeplitz. This assumption arises in many signal processing problems, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Yonina C. Eldar , Jerry Li , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

The state-of-the-art methods for estimating high-dimensional covariance matrices all shrink the eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix towards a data-insensitive shrinkage target. The underlying shrinkage transformation is either…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-25 Man-Chung Yue , Yves Rychener , Daniel Kuhn , Viet Anh Nguyen

The problem of estimating the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ of a $p$-variate distribution based on its $n$ observations arises in many data analysis contexts. While for $n>p$, the classical sample covariance matrix $\hat{\Sigma}_n$ is a good…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Maryia Kabanava , Holger Rauhut

This paper considers the estimation and inference of the low-rank components in high-dimensional matrix-variate factor models, where each dimension of the matrix-variates ($p \times q$) is comparable to or greater than the number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Elynn Y. Chen , Jianqing Fan