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The unadjusted Langevin algorithm is commonly used to sample probability distributions in extremely high-dimensional settings. However, existing analyses of the algorithm for strongly log-concave distributions suggest that, as the dimension…

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We study the localization properties of eigenvectors of the Google matrix, generated both from the World Wide Web and from the Albert-Barabasi model of networks. We establish the emergence of a delocalization phase for the PageRank vector…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-09-04 Olivier Giraud , Bertrand Georgeot , Dima L. Shepelyansky

We derive new Hanson-Wright-type inequalities tailored to the quadratic forms of random vectors with sparse independent components. Specifically, we consider cases where the components of the random vector are sparse $\alpha$-subexponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yiyun He , Ke Wang , Yizhe Zhu

Consider a random symmetric matrix with i.i.d.~entries on and above its diagonal that are products of Bernoulli random variables and random variables with sub-Gaussian tails. Such a matrix will be called a sparse Wigner matrix and can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Fanny Augeri , Anirban Basak

We consider random $d$-regular graphs on $N$ vertices, with degree $d$ at least $(\log N)^4$. We prove that the Green's function of the adjacency matrix and the Stieltjes transform of its empirical spectral measure are well approximated by…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Roland Bauerschmidt , Antti Knowles , Horng-Tzer Yau

Many tasks in machine learning and signal processing can be solved by minimizing a convex function of a measure. This includes sparse spikes deconvolution or training a neural network with a single hidden layer. For these problems, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Francis Bach

We determine to leading order the maximum of the characteristic polynomial for Wigner matrices and $\beta$-ensembles. In the special case of Gaussian-divisible Wigner matrices, our method provides universality of the maximum up to…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Paul Bourgade , Patrick Lopatto , Ofer Zeitouni

This is the second part of a three part series abut delocalization for band matrices. In this paper, we consider a general class of $N\times N$ random band matrices $H=(H_{ij})$ whose entries are centered random variables, independent up to…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Paul Bourgade , Fan Yang , Horng-Tzer Yau , Jun Yin

The eigenvalue density for members of the Gaussian orthogonal and unitary ensembles follows the Wigner semi-circle law. If the Gaussian entries are all shifted by a constant amount c/Sqrt(2N), where N is the size of the matrix, in the large…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-21 Kevin E. Bassler , Peter J. Forrester , Norman E. Frankel

We study spectra and localization properties of Euclidean random matrices. The problem is approximately mapped onto that of a matrix defined on a random graph. We introduce a powerful method to find the density of states and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Ciliberti , T. S. Grigera , V. Martin-Mayor , G. Parisi , P. Verrocchio

The purpose of this paper is to establish universality of the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue of some non necessarily Gaussian complex Deformed Wigner Ensembles. The real model is also considered. Our approach is close to the one…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Delphine Féral , Sandrine Péché

Different variants of approximate inverse iteration like the locally optimal block preconditioned conjugate gradient method became in recent years increasingly popular for the solution of the large matrix eigenvalue problems arising from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Harry Yserentant

We study the angles between the eigenvectors of a random $n\times n$ complex matrix $M$ with density $\propto \mathrm{e}^{-n\operatorname{Tr}V(M^*M)}$ and $x\mapsto V(x^2)$ convex. We prove that for unit eigenvectors…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Florent Benaych-Georges , Ofer Zeitouni

We prove that the bulk eigenvectors of sparse random matrices, i.e. the adjacency matrices of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs or random regular graphs, are asymptotically jointly normal, provided the averaged degree increases with the size of the…

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We study Schr\"odinger operators on $L^2 (\RR^d)$ and $\ell^2(\ZZ^d)$ with a random potential of alloy-type. The single-site potential is assumed to be exponentially decaying but not necessarily of fixed sign. In the continuum setting we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Karsten Leonhardt , Norbert Peyerimhoff , Martin Tautenhahn , Ivan Veselic

We study the fundamental optimization principles of self-attention, the defining mechanism of transformers, by analyzing the implicit bias of gradient-based optimizers in training a self-attention layer with a linear decoder in binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Bhavya Vasudeva , Puneesh Deora , Christos Thrampoulidis

The largest eigenvalue of a matrix is always larger or equal than its largest diagonal entry. We show that for a large class of random Laplacian matrices, this bound is essentially tight: the largest eigenvalue is, up to lower order terms,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Afonso S. Bandeira

We present a systematic study on the linear convergence rates of the powers of (real or complex) matrices. We derive a characterization when the optimal convergence rate is attained. This characterization is given in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Heinz H. Bauschke , J. Y. Bello Cruz , Tran T. A. Nghia , Hung M. Phan , Xianfu Wang

In this paper, we study the limiting distribution of the eigenvalues for random tridiagonal matrix models. The limiting distribution is well described by its moments. Here, an analytical approach allows us, as in the case of Wigner…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Lucas Babet , Ionel Popescu

We consider a random symmetric matrix ${\bf X} = [X_{jk}]_{j,k=1}^n$ with upper triangular entries being i.i.d. random variables with mean zero and unit variance. We additionally suppose that $\mathbb E |X_{11}|^{4 + \delta} =:…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Friedrich Götze , Alexey Naumov , Alexander Tikhomirov , Dmitry Timushev