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We establish precise upper-tail asymptotics and large deviation principles for the rightmost eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ of Wigner matrices with sub-Gaussian entries. In contrast to the case of heavier tails, where deviations of $\lambda_1$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Nicholas A. Cook , Raphael Ducatez , Alice Guionnet

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely utilized to preserve training data privacy in deep learning, which first clips the gradients to a predefined norm and then injects calibrated noise into the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haichao Sha , Yang Cao , Yong Liu , Yuncheng Wu , Ruixuan Liu , Hong Chen

We study the generalization properties of unregularized gradient methods applied to separable linear classification -- a setting that has received considerable attention since the pioneering work of Soudry et al. (2018). We establish tight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Matan Schliserman , Tomer Koren

We consider the precise upper large deviations estimates for the maximal displacement of a branching random walk. In addition, we obtain a description of the extremal process of the branching random walk conditioned on this large deviations…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Lianghui Luo

We continue the investigation of the spectral theory and exponential asymptotics of Markov processes, following Kontoyiannis and Meyn (2003). We introduce a new family of nonlinear Lyapunov drift criteria, characterizing distinct subclasses…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , S. P. Meyn

The one-point distribution of the height for the continuum Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation is determined numerically using the mapping to the directed polymer in a random potential at high temperature. Using an importance sampling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-05-24 Alexander K. Hartmann , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso , Gregory Schehr

We study convex optimization problems under differential privacy (DP). With heavy-tailed gradients, existing works achieve suboptimal rates. The main obstacle is that existing gradient estimators have suboptimal tail properties, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Puning Zhao , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu , Chong Wang , Rongfei Fan , Qingming Li

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are an important concept in random matrix theory and combinatorics. They have also recently attracted interest in the study of numerical methods for machine learning, as they offer an elegant "missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Philipp Hennig , Roman Garnett

We derive a large deviation principle for families of random variables in the basin of attraction of spectrally positive stable distributions by proving a uniform version of the Tauberian theorem for Laplace-Stieltjes transforms. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Gaia Pozzoli

The main result of this paper is that determinantal point processes on the real line corresponding to projection operators with integrable kernels are quasi-invariant, in the continuous case, under the group of diffeomorphisms with compact…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Alexander I. Bufetov

Eigenvalues of Wigner matrices has been a major topic of investigation. A particularly important subclass of such random matrices is formed by the adjacency matrix of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graph $\mathcal{G}_{n,p}$ equipped with i.i.d.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Shirshendu Ganguly , Ella Hiesmayr , Kyeongsik Nam

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) enable the modeling of repulsion: they provide diverse sets of points. The repulsion is encoded in a kernel $K$ that can be seen as a matrix storing the similarity between points. The diversity comes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-24 Claire Launay , Bruno Galerne , Agnès Desolneux

The paper contains an exposition of recent as well as old enough results on determinantal random point fields. We start with some general theorems including the proofs of the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Alexander Soshnikov

The Pearcey process is a universal point process in random matrix theory and depends on a parameter $\rho \in \mathbb{R}$. Let $N(x)$ be the random variable that counts the number of points in this process that fall in the interval…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Christophe Charlier

In this article, we consider a branching random walk on the real-line where displacements coming from the same parent have jointly regularly varying tails. The genealogical structure is assumed to be a supercritical Galton-Watson tree,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Ayan Bhattacharya

We study the upper tail of the number of arithmetic progressions of a given length in a random subset of {1,...,n}, establishing exponential bounds which are best possible up to constant factors in the exponent. The proof also extends to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Lutz Warnke

Let X be a critical branching L{\'e}vy process whose offspring distribution is in the domain of attraction of a stable random variable. We study the tail probability of the maximum location ever reached by a particle in two different…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Christophe Profeta

We obtain sharp large deviation estimates for exceedance probabilities in dependent triangular array threshold models with a diverging number of latent factors. The prefactors quantify how latent-factor dependence and tail geometry enter at…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Fengnan Deng , Anand N. Vidyashankar , Jeffrey F. Collamore

In this paper, we revisit the proof of the large deviations principle of Wiener chaoses partially given by Borel, and then by Ledoux in its full form. We show that some heavy-tail phenomena observed in large deviations can be explained by…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Fanny Augeri

In this paper, we study large time large deviations for the height function $\mathfrak{h}(x,t)$ of the $q$-deformed polynuclear growth introduced in ABW22 [arXiv:2108.06018]. We show that the upper-tail deviations have speed $t$ and derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Sayan Das , Yuchen Liao , Matteo Mucciconi