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Correlation matrices are the sub-class of positive definite real matrices with all entries on the diagonal equal to unity. Earlier work has exhibited a parametrisation of the corresponding Cholesky factorisation in terms of partial…
We propose a Cholesky factor parameterization of correlation matrices that facilitates a priori restrictions on the correlation matrix. It is a smooth and differentiable transform that allows additional boundary constraints on the…
We consider the problem of writing an arbitrary symmetric matrix as the difference of two positive semidefinite matrices. We start with simple ideas such as eigenvalue decomposition. Then, we develop a simple adaptation of the Cholesky that…
The Cholesky decomposition plays an important role in finding the inverse of the correlation matrices. As it is a fast and numerically stable for linear system solving, inversion, and factorization compared to singular valued decomposition…
A new algorithm to approximate Hermitian matrices by positive semidefinite Hermitian matrices based on modified Cholesky decompositions is presented. In contrast to existing algorithms, this algorithm allows to specify bounds on the…
Cholesky factorization provides photonic lattices that are the isospectral partners or the square root of other arrays of coupled waveguides. The procedure is similar to that used in supersymmetric quantum mechanics. However, Cholesky…
The modified Cholesky decomposition is commonly used for precision matrix estimation given a specified order of random variables. However, the order of variables is often not available or cannot be pre-determined. In this work, we propose…
This paper studies the estimation of a large covariance matrix. We introduce a novel procedure called ChoSelect based on the Cholesky factor of the inverse covariance. This method uses a dimension reduction strategy by selecting the pattern…
The randomly pivoted partial Cholesky algorithm (RPCholesky) computes a factorized rank-k approximation of an N x N positive-semidefinite (psd) matrix. RPCholesky requires only (k + 1) N entry evaluations and O(k^2 N) additional arithmetic…
The particular symmetry of the random-phase-approximation (RPA) matrix has been utilized in the past to reduce the RPA eigenvalue problem into a symmetric-matrix problem of half the dimension. The condition of positive definiteness of at…
The Cholesky decomposition is a fundamental tool for solving linear systems with symmetric and positive definite matrices which are ubiquitous in linear algebra, optimization, and machine learning. Its numerical stability can be improved by…
In this paper we present a method for matrix inversion based on Cholesky decomposition with reduced number of operations by avoiding computation of intermediate results; further, we use fixed point simulations to compare the numerical…
In this article, we explore Bayesian extensions of the tensor normal model through a geometric expansion of the multi-way covariance's Cholesky factor inspired by the Fr\'echet mean under the log-Cholesky metric. Specifically, within a…
Estimating large covariance matrices has been a longstanding important problem in many applications and has attracted increased attention over several decades. This paper deals with two methods based on pre-existing works to impose sparsity…
Asymptotic distribution for the proportional covariance model under multivariate normal distributions is derived. To this end, the parametrization of the common covariance matrix by its Cholesky root is adopted. The derivations are made in…
We analyze two algorithms for computing the symplectic $LL^T$ factorization $A=LL^T$ of a given symmetric positive definite symplectic matrix $A$. The first algorithm $W_1$ is an implementation of the $HH^T$ factorization from [Dopico et…
Estimation of covariance matrices is a fundamental problem in multivariate statistics. Recently, growing efforts have focused on incorporating covariate effects into these matrices, facilitating subject-specific estimation. Despite these…
This paper presents a new algorithm for generating random inverse-Wishart matrices that directly generates the Cholesky factor of the matrix without computing the factorization. Whenever parameterized in terms of a precision matrix…
This article proposes and analyzes several variants of the randomized Cholesky QR factorization of a matrix $X$. Instead of computing the R factor from $X^T X$, as is done by standard methods, we obtain it from a small, efficiently…
The nonnegative matrix factorization is a widely used, flexible matrix decomposition, finding applications in biology, image and signal processing and information retrieval, among other areas. Here we present a related matrix factorization.…