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We study the spectral aspects of the graph limit theory. We give a description of graphon convergence in terms of converegnce of eigenvalues and eigenspaces. Along these lines we prove a spectral version of the strong regularity lemma.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-31 Balazs Szegedy

We study the spectral properties of infinitely smooth multivariate kernel matrices when the nodes form a single cluster. We show that the geometry of the nodes plays an important role in the scaling of the eigenvalues of these kernel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Nuha Diab , Dmitry Batenkov

We show that, under mild assumptions, the spectrum of a sum of independent random matrices is close to that of the Gaussian random matrix whose entries have the same mean and covariance. This nonasymptotic universality principle yields…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Tatiana Brailovskaya , Ramon van Handel

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Konstantin Usevich , Simon Barthelme

Non-Hermitian random matrices with statistical spectral characteristics beyond the standard Ginibre ensembles have recently emerged in the description of dissipative quantum many-body systems as well as in non-ergodic wave transport in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Gernot Akemann , Yan V. Fyodorov , Dmitry V. Savin

Kernel matrices, as well as weighted graphs represented by them, are ubiquitous objects in machine learning, statistics and other related fields. The main drawback of using kernel methods (learning and inference using kernel matrices) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ainesh Bakshi , Piotr Indyk , Praneeth Kacham , Sandeep Silwal , Samson Zhou

This paper develops nonasymptotic growth and concentration bounds for a product of independent random matrices. These results sharpen and generalize recent work of Henriksen-Ward, and they are similar in spirit to the results of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-12 De Huang , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Joel A. Tropp , Rachel Ward

A kernel method is proposed to estimate the condensed density of the generalized eigenvalues of pencils of Hankel matrices whose elements have a joint noncentral Gaussian distribution with nonidentical covariance. These pencils arise when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Piero Barone

We investigate concentration properties of functions of random vectors with values in the discrete cube, satisfying the stochastic covering property (SCP) or the strong Rayleigh property (SRP). Our result for SCP measures include…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Radosław Adamczak , Bartłomiej Polaczyk

Approximating non-linear kernels using feature maps has gained a lot of interest in recent years due to applications in reducing training and testing times of SVM classifiers and other kernel based learning algorithms. We extend this line…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Purushottam Kar , Harish Karnick

We study the spectral convergence of compact, self-adjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space under operator norm perturbations, and derive asymptotic expansions for their eigenvalues and eigenprojections. Our analysis focuses on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Eunseong Bae , Wolfgang Polonik

For the past 30 years or so, machine learning has stimulated a great deal of research in the study of approximation capabilities (expressive power) of a multitude of processes, such as approximation by shallow or deep neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hrushikesh Mhaskar

We show that correlation matrices with particular average and variance of the correlation coefficients have a notably restricted spectral structure. Applying geometric methods, we derive lower bounds for the largest eigenvalue and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Yuriy Stepanov , Hendrik Herrmann , Thomas Guhr

In this paper, we investigate the eigenvalue distribution of a class of kernel random matrices whose $(i,j)$-th entry is $f(X_i,X_j)$ where $f$ is a symmetric function belonging to the Paley-Wiener space $\mathcal{B}_c$ and $(X_i)_{1\leq i…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Jebalia Mohamed , Ahmed Souabni

Node embeddings map graph vertices into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces while preserving structural information. They are central to tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and signal reconstruction. A key goal is to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Valentin de Bassompierre , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Laurent Jacques

We investigate random matrices whose entries are obtained by applying a nonlinear kernel function to pairwise inner products between $n$ independent data vectors, drawn uniformly from the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^d$. This study is…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Yue M. Lu , Horng-Tzer Yau

This paper studies the asymptotic spectral properties of a renormalized sample correlation matrix, including the limiting spectral distribution, the properties of largest eigenvalues, and the central limit theorem for linear spectral…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Qianqian Jiang , Junpeng Zhu , Zeng Li

The spectra of random feature matrices provide essential information on the conditioning of the linear system used in random feature regression problems and are thus connected to the consistency and generalization of random feature models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-13 Zhijun Chen , Hayden Schaeffer , Rachel Ward

This paper derives exponential tail bounds and polynomial moment inequalities for the spectral norm deviation of a random matrix from its mean value. The argument depends on a matrix extension of Stein's method of exchangeable pairs for…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Daniel Paulin , Lester Mackey , Joel A. Tropp

We present a concentration result concerning random weighted projections in high dimensional spaces. As applications, we prove (1) New concentration inequalities for random quadratic forms; (2) The infinity norm of most unit eigenvectors of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Van Vu , Ke Wang