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We study nonconvex optimization in high dimensions through Langevin dynamics, focusing on the multi-spiked tensor PCA problem. This tensor estimation problem involves recovering $r$ hidden signal vectors (spikes) from noisy Gaussian tensor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-20 Gérard Ben Arous , Cédric Gerbelot , Vanessa Piccolo

We consider the Principal Component Analysis problem for large tensors of arbitrary order $k$ under a single-spike (or rank-one plus noise) model. On the one hand, we use information theory, and recent results in probability theory, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Andrea Montanari , Emile Richard

We study the high-dimensional inference of a rank-one signal corrupted by sparse noise. The noise is modelled as the adjacency matrix of a weighted undirected graph with finite average connectivity in the large size limit. Using the replica…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Urte Adomaityte , Gabriele Sicuro , Pierpaolo Vivo

We study the Order-$k$ ($k \geq 4$) spiked tensor model for the tensor principal component analysis (PCA) problem: given $N$ i.i.d. observations of a $k$-th order tensor generated from the model $\mathbf{T} = \lambda \cdot v_*^{\otimes k} +…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Shihong Ding , Yihong Gu , Yuanshi Liu , Cong Fang

We study the high-dimensional dynamics of online stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for the multi-spiked tensor model. This multi-index model arises from the tensor principal component analysis (PCA) problem with multiple spikes, where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-24 Gérard Ben Arous , Cédric Gerbelot , Vanessa Piccolo

We consider the problem of estimating a large rank-one tensor ${\boldsymbol u}^{\otimes k}\in({\mathbb R}^{n})^{\otimes k}$, $k\ge 3$ in Gaussian noise. Earlier work characterized a critical signal-to-noise ratio $\lambda_{Bayes}= O(1)$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Gerard Ben Arous , Song Mei , Andrea Montanari , Mihai Nica

We study the dynamics of gradient flow in high dimensions for the multi-spiked tensor problem, where the goal is to estimate $r$ unknown signal vectors (spikes) from noisy Gaussian tensor observations. Specifically, we analyze the maximum…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Gérard Ben Arous , Cédric Gerbelot , Vanessa Piccolo

We study the problem of sparse tensor principal component analysis: given a tensor $\pmb Y = \pmb W + \lambda x^{\otimes p}$ with $\pmb W \in \otimes^p\mathbb{R}^n$ having i.i.d. Gaussian entries, the goal is to recover the $k$-sparse unit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Davin Choo , Tommaso d'Orsi

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

We study the statistical limits of both detecting and estimating a rank-one deformation of a symmetric random Gaussian tensor. We establish upper and lower bounds on the critical signal-to-noise ratio, under a variety of priors for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira

We study a statistical model for the tensor principal component analysis problem introduced by Montanari and Richard: Given a order-$3$ tensor $T$ of the form $T = \tau \cdot v_0^{\otimes 3} + A$, where $\tau \geq 0$ is a signal-to-noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Samuel B. Hopkins , Jonathan Shi , David Steurer

This paper tackles the problem of recovering a low-rank signal tensor with possibly correlated components from a random noisy tensor, or so-called spiked tensor model. When the underlying components are orthogonal, they can be recovered…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-20 Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Mohammed Mahfoud , Merouane Debbah

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

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

Optimal $k$-thresholding algorithms are a class of $k$-sparse signal recovery algorithms that overcome the shortcomings of traditional hard thresholding algorithms caused by the oscillation of the residual function. In this paper, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jialiang Xu , Xu Zhang

Low-rank matrix recovery problems involving high-dimensional and heterogeneous data appear in applications throughout statistics and machine learning. The contribution of this paper is to establish the fundamental limits of recovery for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-22 Joshua K. Behne , Galen Reeves

This paper studies the statistical and computational limits of high-order clustering with planted structures. We focus on two clustering models, constant high-order clustering (CHC) and rank-one higher-order clustering (ROHC), and study the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Yuetian Luo , Anru R. Zhang

We propose Selective Multiple Power Iterations (SMPI), a new algorithm to address the important Tensor PCA problem that consists in recovering a spike $\bf{v_0}^{\otimes k}$ corrupted by a Gaussian noise tensor $\bf{Z} \in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Mohamed Ouerfelli , Mohamed Tamaazousti , Vincent Rivasseau

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

An increasing number of data science and machine learning problems rely on computation with tensors, which better capture the multi-way relationships and interactions of data than matrices. When tapping into this critical advantage, a key…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-23 Harry Dong , Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Yuejie Chi
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