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A highly popular regularized (shrinkage) covariance matrix estimator is the shrinkage sample covariance matrix (SCM) which shares the same set of eigenvectors as the SCM but shrinks its eigenvalues toward the grand mean of the eigenvalues…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-29 Esa Ollila , Daniel P. Palomar , Frédéric Pascal

The mean-variance model remains the most prevalent investment framework, built on diversification principles. However, it consistently struggles with estimation errors in expected returns and the covariance matrix, its core parameters. To…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-29 Rupendra Yadav , Amita Sharma , Aparna Mehra

In large-scale, data-driven applications, parameters are often only known approximately due to noise and limited data samples. In this paper, we focus on high-dimensional optimization problems with linear constraints under uncertain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Naqi Huang , Nestor Parolya , Theresia van Essen

We propose a new prediction method for multivariate linear regression problems where the number of features is less than the sample size but the number of outcomes is extremely large. Many popular procedures, such as penalized regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-20 Yihe Wang , Sihai Dave Zhao

In many astrophysical settings covariance matrices of large datasets have to be determined empirically from a finite number of mock realisations. The resulting noise degrades inference and precludes it completely if there are fewer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Benjamin Joachimi

Multi-target linear shrinkage is an extension of the standard single-target linear shrinkage for covariance estimation. We combine several constant matrices - the targets - with the sample covariance matrix. We derive the oracle and a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Benoit Oriol

In this paper, we perform a comprehensive study of different covariance and precision matrix estimation methods in the context of minimum variance portfolio allocation. The set of models studied by us can be broadly categorized as: Gaussian…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-05-22 Sumanjay Dutta , Shashi Jain

While leverage score sampling provides powerful tools for approximating solutions to large least squares problems, the cost of computing exact scores and sampling often prohibits practical application. This paper addresses this challenge by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Osman Asif Malik , Yiming Xu , Nuojin Cheng , Stephen Becker , Alireza Doostan , Akil Narayan

One of the goals in scaling sequential machine learning methods pertains to dealing with high-dimensional data spaces. A key related challenge is that many methods heavily depend on obtaining the inverse covariance matrix of the data. It is…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-28 Tomer Lancewicki

To recover a low rank structure from a noisy matrix, truncated singular value decomposition has been extensively used and studied. Recent studies suggested that the signal can be better estimated by shrinking the singular values. We pursue…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-25 Julie Josse , Sylvain Sardy

The covariance matrix plays a fundamental role in many modern exploratory and inferential statistical procedures, including dimensionality reduction, hypothesis testing, and regression. In low-dimensional regimes, where the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-12 Philippe Boileau , Nima S. Hejazi , Mark J. van der Laan , Sandrine Dudoit

Low rank approximation is an important tool used in many applications of signal processing and machine learning. Recently, randomized sketching algorithms were proposed to effectively construct low rank approximations and obtain approximate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Shashanka Ubaru , Arya Mazumdar , Yousef Saad

Covariance matrix estimates are an essential part of many signal processing algorithms, and are often used to determine a low-dimensional principal subspace via their spectral decomposition. However, exact eigenanalysis is computationally…

Applications · Statistics 2011-12-01 Nicholas Arcolano , Patrick J. Wolfe

In this paper, we apply shrinkage strategies to estimate regression coefficients efficiently for the high-dimensional multiple regression model, where the number of samples is smaller than the number of predictors. We assume in the sparse…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-19 B. Yuzbasi , M. Arashi , S. E. Ahmed

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a typical method for classification problems with large dimensions and small samples. There are various types of LDA methods that are based on the different types of estimators for the covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Jaehoan Kim , Hoyoung Park , Junyong Park

In this paper, we study the problem of high-dimensional approximately low-rank covariance matrix estimation with missing observations. We propose a simple procedure computationally tractable in high-dimension and that does not require…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Karim Lounici

Partial coherence is an important quantity derived from spectral or precision matrices and is used in seismology, meteorology, oceanography, neuroscience and elsewhere. If the number of complex degrees of freedom only slightly exceeds the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-03 D. Schneider-Luftman , A. T. Walden

This paper proposes low-complexity robust adaptive beamforming (RAB) techniques based on shrinkage methods. We firstly briefly review a Low-Complexity Shrinkage-Based Mismatch Estimation (LOCSME) batch algorithm to estimate the desired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-08 H. Ruan , R. C. de Lamare

This paper introduces a new data-driven methodology for estimating sparse covariance matrices of the random coefficients in logit mixture models. Researchers typically specify covariance matrices in logit mixture models under one of two…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-16 Youssef M Aboutaleb , Mazen Danaf , Yifei Xie , Moshe Ben-Akiva

Networked systems usually face different random uncertainties that make the performance of the least-squares (LS) linear filter decline significantly. For this reason, great attention has been paid to the search for other kinds of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Raquel Caballero-Águila , Josefa Linares-Pérez