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We obtain general, exact formulas for the overlaps between the eigenvectors of large correlated random matrices, with additive or multiplicative noise. These results have potential applications in many different contexts, from quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Joël Bun , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Marc Potters

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

In this paper we consider the trace regression model. Assume that we observe a small set of entries or linear combinations of entries of an unknown matrix $A_0$ corrupted by noise. We propose a new rank penalized estimator of $A_0$. For…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Olga Klopp

We analyze cross-correlations between price fluctuations of different stocks using methods of random matrix theory (RMT). Using two large databases, we calculate cross-correlation matrices C of returns constructed from (i) 30-min returns of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Plerou , P. Gopikrishnan , B. Rosenow , L. A. N. Amaral , T. Guhr , H. E. Stanley

Computing eigenvalues of very large matrices is a critical task in many machine learning applications, including the evaluation of log-determinants, the trace of matrix functions, and other important metrics. As datasets continue to grow in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-16 Siavash Ameli , Chris van der Heide , Liam Hodgkinson , Michael W. Mahoney

The subspace-based techniques are widely utilized in various scientific fields, and they need accurate estimation of the signal subspace dimension. The classic RMT estimator for model order estimation based on random matrix theory assumes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Huiyue Yi , Wuxiong Zhang , Hui Xu

Relying on random matrix theory (RMT), this paper studies asymmetric order-$d$ spiked tensor models with Gaussian noise. Using the variational definition of the singular vectors and values of (Lim, 2005), we show that the analysis of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Maxime Guillaud , Romain Couillet

A new approach to solving random matrix models directly in the large $N$ limit is developed. First, a set of numerical values for some low-pt correlation functions is guessed. The large $N$ loop equations are then used to generate values of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-17 Henry W. Lin

In this paper we study the problem of reconstruction of a low-rank matrix observed with additive Gaussian noise. First we show that under mild assumptions (about the prior distribution of the signal matrix) we can restrict our attention to…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-07-26 Andrey Shabalin , Andrew Nobel

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are ideal for estimating causal effects, because the distributions of background covariates are similar in expectation across treatment groups. When estimating causal effects using observational data,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-27 Anthony D. Scotina , Roee Gutman

This work analyzes singular-value spectra of weight matrices in pretrained transformer models to understand how information is stored at both ends of the spectrum. Using Random Matrix Theory (RMT) as a zero information hypothesis, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Max Staats , Matthias Thamm , Bernd Rosenow

I present here some results on the statistical behaviour of large random matrices in an ensemble where the probability distribution is not a function of the eigenvalues only. The perturbative expansion can be cast in a closed form and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-03 Giorgio Parisi

Supervised fine-tuning of large language models relies on human-annotated data, yet annotation pipelines routinely involve multiple crowdworkers of heterogeneous expertise. Standard practice aggregates labels via majority vote or simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Mark Beliaev , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

This paper uses techniques from Random Matrix Theory to find the ideal training-testing data split for a simple linear regression with m data points, each an independent n-dimensional multivariate Gaussian. It defines "ideal" as satisfying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-26 Alexander Dubbs

In this work, we proposed a novel inferential procedure assisted by machine learning based adjustment for randomized control trials. The method was developed under the Rosenbaum's framework of exact tests in randomized experiments with…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-23 Han Yu , Alan D. Hutson , Xiaoyi Ma

We analyze the spectral properties of large, time-lagged correlation matrices using the tools of random matrix theory. We compare predictions of the one-dimensional spectra, based on approaches already proposed in the literature. Employing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 Maciej A. Nowak , Wojciech Tarnowski

This paper examines a general class of noisy matrix completion tasks where the goal is to estimate a matrix from observations obtained at a subset of its entries, each of which is subject to random noise or corruption. Our specific focus is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-18 Akshay Soni , Swayambhoo Jain , Jarvis Haupt , Stefano Gonella

We introduce a new method for estimating determinants or determinant ratios of large matrices, which combines the techniques of Pad\`{e} approximation with rational functions and $Z_{2}$ noise estimation of traces of large matrices. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Thron , K. F. Liu , S. J. Dong

A random matrix is likely to be well conditioned, and motivated by this well known property we employ random matrix multipliers to advance some fundamental matrix computations. This includes numerical stabilization of Gaussian elimination…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Victor Y. Pan , Guoliang Qian

We introduce a covariance matrix estimator that both takes into account the heteroskedasticity of financial returns (by using an exponentially weighted moving average) and reduces the effective dimensionality of the estimation (and hence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Szilard Pafka , Marc Potters , Imre Kondor