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In high-dimensional principal component analysis, important inferential targets include both leading spikes and the associated principal eigenspaces. Such problems arise naturally in high-dimensional factor models, where leading principal…

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We develop a method for estimating well-conditioned and sparse covariance and inverse covariance matrices from a sample of vectors drawn from a sub-gaussian distribution in high dimensional setting. The proposed estimators are obtained by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Ashwini Maurya

This paper studies inference for the mean vector of a high-dimensional $U$-statistic. In the era of Big Data, the dimension $d$ of the $U$-statistic and the sample size $n$ of the observations tend to be both large, and the computation of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Xiaohui Chen , Kengo Kato

This paper is aimed at deriving the universality of the largest eigenvalue of a class of high-dimensional real or complex sample covariance matrices of the form $\mathcal{W}_N=\Sigma^{1/2}XX^*\Sigma ^{1/2}$. Here, $X=(x_{ij})_{M,N}$ is an…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Zhigang Bao , Guangming Pan , Wang Zhou

The statistical properties of estimator using covariance matrix for the account of point-to-point correlations due to systematic errors are analyzed. It is shown that the covariance matrix estimator (CME) is consistent for the realistic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Alekhin Sergey

The eigenvalue density of a matrix plays an important role in various types of scientific computing such as electronic-structure calculations. In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm for computing the eigenvalue density in a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Yasunori Futamura , Xiucai Ye , Tetsuya Sakurai

We study the eigenvector mass distribution of an $N\times N$ Wigner matrix on a set of coordinates $I$ satisfying $| I | \ge c N$ for some constant $c >0$. For eigenvectors corresponding to eigenvalues at the spectral edge, we show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Lucas Benigni , Nixia Chen , Patrick Lopatto , Xiaoyu Xie

Covariance estimation becomes challenging in the regime where the number p of variables outstrips the number n of samples available to construct the estimate. One way to circumvent this problem is to assume that the covariance matrix is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Richard Y. Chen , Alex Gittens , Joel A. Tropp

Eigenvalues of a density matrix characterize well the quantum state's properties, such as coherence and entanglement. We propose a simple method to determine all the eigenvalues of an unknown density matrix of a finite-dimensional system in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-24 Tohru Tanaka , Yukihiro Ota , Mitsunori Kanazawa , Gen Kimura , Hiromichi Nakazato , Franco Nori

In this paper, we use an adjusted autoencoder to estimate the true eigenvalues of the population correlation matrix from the sample correlation matrix when the number of samples is small. We show that the model outperforms the Rotational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Soufiane Hayou

A constrained L1 minimization method is proposed for estimating a sparse inverse covariance matrix based on a sample of $n$ iid $p$-variate random variables. The resulting estimator is shown to enjoy a number of desirable properties. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-02-14 Tony Cai , Weidong Liu , Xi Luo

Covariance estimation for matrix-valued data has received an increasing interest in applications. Unlike previous works that rely heavily on matrix normal distribution assumption and the requirement of fixed matrix size, we propose a class…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-20 Yichi Zhang , Weining Shen , Dehan Kong

Spectral analysis plays a crucial role in high-dimensional statistics, where determining the asymptotic distribution of various spectral statistics remains a challenging task. Due to the difficulties of deriving the analytic form, recent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Guoyu Zhang , Dandan Jiang , Fang Yao

In this article, the joint fluctuations of the extreme eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a large dimensional sample covariance matrix are analyzed when the associated population covariance matrix is a finite-rank perturbation of the identity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Romain Couillet , Walid Hachem

This paper investigates the asymptotics of eigenstructure of sample covariance matrix under the spiked covariance matrix model in ultra-high-dimensional settings, where the dimensionality can grow much faster than the sample size with $ p…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Wonjun Seo

We compute exactly the overlap between the eigenvectors of two large empirical covariance matrices computed over intersecting time intervals, generalizing the results obtained previously for non-intersecting intervals. Our method relies on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-30 Volodymyr Riabov , Konstantin Tikhonov , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

In this paper we consider estimation of sparse covariance matrices and propose a thresholding procedure which is adaptive to the variability of individual entries. The estimators are fully data driven and enjoy excellent performance both…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-02-14 Tony Cai , Weidong Liu

We consider large complex random sample covariance matrices obtained from "spiked populations", that is when the true covariance matrix is diagonal with all but finitely many eigenvalues equal to one. We investigate the limiting behavior of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Delphine Féral , Sandrine Péché

We prove a central limit theorem for the difference of linear eigenvalue statistics of a sample covariance matrix $\widetilde{W}$ and its minor $W$. We find that the fluctuation of this difference is much smaller than those of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Giorgio Cipolloni , László Erdős

We compute analytically the joint probability density of eigenvalues and the level spacing statistics for an ensemble of random matrices with interesting features. It is invariant under the standard symmetry groups (orthogonal and unitary)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-21 Zdzisław Burda , Giacomo Livan , Pierpaolo Vivo