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High-dimensional planted problems, such as finding a hidden dense subgraph within a random graph, often exhibit a gap between statistical and computational feasibility. While recovering the hidden structure may be statistically possible, it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Youngtak Sohn , Alexander S. Wein

We study the fundamental limits of detecting the presence of an additive rank-one perturbation, or spike, to a Wigner matrix. When the spike comes from a prior that is i.i.d. across coordinates, we prove that the log-likelihood ratio of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Ahmed El Alaoui , Florent Krzakala , Michael I. Jordan

We consider the problem of detecting the presence of a signal in a rank-one spiked Wigner model. For general non-Gaussian noise, assuming that the signal is drawn from the Rademacher prior, we prove that the log likelihood ratio (LR) of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Hye Won Chung , Jiho Lee , Ji Oon Lee

We consider rank-one symmetric tensor estimation when the tensor is corrupted by Gaussian noise and the spike forming the tensor is a structured signal coming from a generalized linear model. The latter is a mathematically tractable model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Clément Luneau , Nicolas Macris

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

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

We consider the high-dimensional inference problem where the signal is a low-rank symmetric matrix which is corrupted by an additive Gaussian noise. Given a probabilistic model for the low-rank matrix, we compute the limit in the large…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Marc Lelarge , Léo Miolane

We consider the problem of estimating a rank-one perturbation of a Wigner matrix in a setting of low signal-to-noise ratio. This serves as a simple model for principal component analysis in high dimensions. The mutual information per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ahmed El Alaoui , Florent Krzakala

In datasets where the number of parameters is fixed and the number of samples is large, principal component analysis (PCA) is a powerful dimension reduction tool. However, in many contemporary datasets, when the number of parameters is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Enrico Au-Yeung , Greg Zanotti

We study the problem of estimating a rank one signal matrix from an observed matrix generated by corrupting the signal with additive rotationally invariant noise. We develop a new class of approximate message-passing algorithms for this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Rishabh Dudeja , Songbin Liu , Junjie Ma

We consider a group synchronization problem with multiple frequencies which involves observing pairwise relative measurements of group elements on multiple frequency channels, corrupted by Gaussian noise. We study the computational phase…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Anastasia Kireeva , Afonso S. Bandeira , Dmitriy Kunisky

We develop methodology and theory for the detection of a phase transition in a time-series of high-dimensional random matrices. In the model we study, at each time point \( t = 1,2,\ldots \), we observe a deformed Wigner matrix \(…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Nina Dörnemann , Piotr Kokoszka , Tim Kutta , Sunmin Lee

High-dimensional time series are a core ingredient of the statistical modeling toolkit, for which numerous estimation methods are known.But when observations are scarce or corrupted, the learning task becomes much harder.The question is:…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Guillaume Dalle , Yohann de Castro

In this paper, we study a nonlinear spiked random matrix model where a nonlinear function is applied element-wise to a noise matrix perturbed by a rank-one signal. We establish a signal-plus-noise decomposition for this model and identify…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Behrad Moniri , Hamed Hassani

We consider a generalization of an important class of high-dimensional inference problems, namely spiked symmetric matrix models, often used as probabilistic models for principal component analysis. Such paradigmatic models have recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jean Barbier , Galen Reeves

We study the problem of approximate ranking from observations of pairwise interactions. The goal is to estimate the underlying ranks of $n$ objects from data through interactions of comparison or collaboration. Under a general framework of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Chao Gao

We study a principal component analysis problem under the spiked Wishart model in which the structure in the signal is captured by a class of union-of-subspace models. This general class includes vanilla sparse PCA as well as its variants…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Guanyi Wang , Mengqi Lou , Ashwin Pananjady

We study the recovery of multiple high-dimensional signals from two noisy, correlated modalities: a spiked matrix and a spiked tensor sharing a common low-rank structure. This setting generalizes classical spiked matrix and tensor models,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Hugo Tabanelli , Pierre Mergny , Lenka Zdeborova , Florent Krzakala

How do statistical dependencies in measurement noise influence high-dimensional inference? To answer this, we study the paradigmatic spiked matrix model of principal components analysis (PCA), where a rank-one matrix is corrupted by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jean Barbier , Francesco Camilli , Marco Mondelli , Manuel Saenz

In this work, we show the first average-case reduction transforming the sparse Spiked Covariance Model into the sparse Spiked Wigner Model and as a consequence obtain the first computational equivalence result between two well-studied…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Guy Bresler , Alina Harbuzova