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In a spiked population model, the population covariance matrix has all its eigenvalues equal to units except for a few fixed eigenvalues (spikes). This model is proposed by Johnstone to cope with empirical findings on various data sets. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Zhidong Bai , Jian-feng Yao

We introduce a new approach for estimating the number of spikes in a general class of spiked covariance models without directly computing the eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrix. This approach is based on the Lanczos algorithm and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Charbel Abi Younes , Xiucai Ding , Thomas Trogdon

We develop a pseudo-likelihood theory for rank one matrix estimation problems in the high dimensional limit. We prove a variational principle for the limiting pseudo-maximum likelihood which also characterizes the performance of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Curtis Grant , Aukosh Jagannath , Justin Ko

We consider an invariant random matrix model where the standard Gaussian potential is distorted by an additional single pole of order $m$. We compute the average or macroscopic spectral density in the limit of large matrix size, solving the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Gernot Akemann , Dario Villamaina , Pierpaolo Vivo

Inhomogeneous random matrices with non-trivial variance profiles determined by symmetric stochastic matrices and with independent sub-Gaussian entries up to Hermitian symmetry, encompass a wide range of important models, including sparse…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Ruohan Geng , Dang-Zheng Liu , Guangyi Zou

We study the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum of a random matrix where a non-linearity is applied entry-wise to a Wigner matrix perturbed by a rank-one spike with independent and identically distributed entries. In this setting, we show…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Alice Guionnet , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala , Pierre Mergny , Lenka Zdeborová

We consider the matrix completion problem under a form of row/column weighted entrywise sampling, including the case of uniform entrywise sampling as a special case. We analyze the associated random observation operator, and prove that with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

We determine statistical and computational limits for estimation of a rank-one matrix (the spike) corrupted by an additive gaussian noise matrix, in a sparse limit, where the underlying hidden vector (that constructs the rank-one matrix)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Jean Barbier , Nicolas Macris , Cynthia Rush

Consider a spiked random tensor obtained as a mixture of two components: noise in the form of a symmetric Gaussian $p$-tensor for $p\geq 3$ and signal in the form of a symmetric low-rank random tensor. The latter is defined as a linear…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Wei-Kuo Chen , Madeline Handschy , Gilad Lerman

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

The top eigenvalues of rank $r$ spiked real Wishart matrices and additively perturbed Gaussian orthogonal ensembles are known to exhibit a phase transition in the large size limit. We show that they have limiting distributions for…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Alex Bloemendal , Bálint Virág

We study the maximum-average submatrix problem, in which given an $N \times N$ matrix $J$ one needs to find the $k \times k$ submatrix with the largest average of entries. We study the problem for random matrices $J$ whose entries are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-24 Vittorio Erba , Florent Krzakala , Rodrigo Pérez , Lenka Zdeborová

We use tools from random matrix theory to study the multi-spiked tensor model, i.e., a rank-$r$ deformation of a symmetric random Gaussian tensor. In particular, thanks to the nature of local optimization methods used to find the maximum…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Yang Qi , Alexis Decurninge

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behaviors of the extreme eigenvectors in a general spiked covariance matrix, where the dimension and sample size increase proportionally. We eliminate the restrictive assumption of the block…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Zhangni Pu , Xiaozhuo Zhang , Jiang Hu , Zhidong Bai

We consider the weak detection problem in a rank-one spiked Wigner data matrix where the signal-to-noise ratio is small so that reliable detection is impossible. We propose a hypothesis test on the presence of the signal by utilizing the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Hye Won Chung , Ji Oon Lee

Tensor models play an increasingly prominent role in many fields, notably in machine learning. In several applications, such as community detection, topic modeling and Gaussian mixture learning, one must estimate a low-rank signal from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 José Henrique de Morais Goulart , Romain Couillet , Pierre Comon

One of the classic data mining tasks is to discover bursts, time intervals, where events occur at abnormally high rate. In this paper we revisit Kleinberg's seminal work, where bursts are discovered by using exponential distribution with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Nikolaj Tatti

We study low-rank matrix estimation for a generic inhomogeneous output channel through which the matrix is observed. This generalizes the commonly considered spiked matrix model with homogeneous noise to include for instance the dense…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Alice Guionnet , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

In the analysis of elastic-scattering experimental data, optical-model parameters (usually, depths of real and imaginary potentials) are fitted and conclusions are drawn analyzing their variations at bombardment energies close to the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-03-16 Daniel Abriola , A. Arazi , J. Testoni , F. Gollan , G. V. Martí

Motivated by multimodal estimation, we study a multi-view spiked Wigner model in which several noisy matrix observations contain correlated latent spikes. We derive a spectral estimator for the latent spikes by linearizing approximate…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Xiaodong Yang , Subhabrata Sen , Yue M. Lu