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This paper aims to address two fundamental challenges arising in eigenvector estimation and inference for a low-rank matrix from noisy observations: (1) how to estimate an unknown eigenvector when the eigen-gap (i.e. the spacing between the…
We study ill-conditioned positive definite matrices that are disturbed by the sum of $m$ rank-one matrices of a specific form. We provide estimates for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors. When the condition number of the initial matrix tends…
The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of nonnormal matrices can be unstable under perturbations of their entries. This renders an obstacle to the analysis of numerical algorithms for non-Hermitian eigenvalue problems. A recent technique to…
Estimating eigenvectors and low-dimensional subspaces is of central importance for numerous problems in statistics, computer science, and applied mathematics. This paper characterizes the behavior of perturbed eigenvectors for a range of…
We consider a discrete, non-Hermitian random matrix model, which can be expressed as a shift of a rank-one perturbation of an anti-symmetric matrix. We show that, asymptotically almost surely, the real parts of the eigenvalues of the…
Spectral methods are widely used to estimate eigenvectors of a low-rank signal matrix subject to noise. These methods use the leading eigenspace of an observed matrix to estimate this low-rank signal. Typically, the entrywise estimation…
We study the matrix denoising problem of estimating the singular vectors of a rank-$1$ signal corrupted by noise with both column and row correlations. Existing works are either unable to pinpoint the exact asymptotic estimation error or,…
Let $A$ be a rectangular matrix of size $m\times n$ and $A_1$ be the random matrix where each entry of $A$ is multiplied by an independent $\{0,1\}$-Bernoulli random variable with parameter $1/2$. This paper is about when, how and why the…
Low-rank pseudoinverses are widely used to approximate matrix inverses in scalable machine learning, optimization, and scientific computing. However, real-world matrices are often observed with noise, arising from sampling, sketching, and…
This work investigates the multiplicity and differentiability of eigenfrequencies in structures with various symmetries. In particular, the study explores how the geometric and design variable symmetries affect the distribution of…
Computing the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a perturbed matrix can be remarkably difficult when the unperturbed matrix has repeated eigenvalues. In this work we show how the limiting eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix…
Sensitivity of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of symmetric matrix estimates to the removal of a single observation have been well documented in the literature. However, a complicating factor can exist in that the rank of the eigenvalues may…
Symmetry arises often when learning from high dimensional data. For example, data sets consisting of point clouds, graphs, and unordered sets appear routinely in contemporary applications, and exhibit rich underlying symmetries.…
Matrix completion algorithms recover a low rank matrix from a small fraction of the entries, each entry contaminated with additive errors. In practice, the singular vectors and singular values of the low rank matrix play a pivotal role for…
Positive semi-definite matrices commonly occur as normal matrices of least squares problems in statistics or as kernel matrices in machine learning and approximation theory. They are typically large and dense. Thus algorithms to solve…
We consider the problem of subspace estimation in situations where the number of available snapshots and the observation dimension are comparable in magnitude. In this context, traditional subspace methods tend to fail because the…
We investigate the noise sensitivity of the top eigenvector of a sparse random symmetric matrix. Let $v$ be the top eigenvector of an $N\times N$ sparse random symmetric matrix with an average of $d$ non-zero centered entries per row. We…
Understanding the distributions of spectral estimators in low-rank random matrix models, also known as signal-plus-noise matrix models, is fundamentally important in various statistical learning problems, including network analysis, matrix…
It is common in machine learning and statistics to use symmetries derived from expert knowledge to simplify problems or improve performance, using methods like data augmentation or penalties. In this paper we consider the unsupervised and…
Spectral estimators are fundamental in lowrank matrix models and arise throughout machine learning and statistics, with applications including network analysis, matrix completion and PCA. These estimators aim to recover the leading…