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We study Bayesian inference in the spiked covariance model, where a small number of spiked eigenvalues dominate the spectrum. Our goal is to infer the spiked eigenvalues, their corresponding eigenvectors, and the number of spikes, providing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Kwangmin Lee , Sewon Park , Seongmin Kim , Jaeyong Lee

In Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) data analysis, noise is typically assumed to be Gaussian, and the marginalized likelihood has a well-established analytical form derived within the framework of Gaussian processes. However, this Gaussianity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Mikel Falxa , Alberto Sesana

We discuss the inhomogeneous spiked Wigner model, a theoretical framework recently introduced to study structured noise in various learning scenarios, through the prism of random matrix theory, with a specific focus on its spectral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-06 Pierre Mergny , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala

The detection problem in statistical signal processing can be succinctly formulated: Given m (possibly) signal bearing, n-dimensional signal-plus-noise snapshot vectors (samples) and N statistically independent n-dimensional noise-only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-26 N. Raj Rao , Jack W. Silverstein

Separating a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from noise is a challenging statistical task. One approach to establishing a detection criterion for the SGWB is using Bayesian evidence. If the evidence ratio (Bayes factor)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Federico Pozzoli , Jonathan Gair , Riccardo Buscicchio , Lorenzo Speri

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

In this manuscript we consider denoising of large rectangular matrices: given a noisy observation of a signal matrix, what is the best way of recovering the signal matrix itself? For Gaussian noise and rotationally-invariant signal priors,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-03 Emanuele Troiani , Vittorio Erba , Florent Krzakala , Antoine Maillard , Lenka Zdeborová

This paper examines signal detection in the presence of noise, with a particular emphasis to the nuclear activation analysis. The problem is to decide what between the signal-plus-background and no-signal hypotheses fits better the data and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-01-09 Luigi Bergamaschi , Giancarlo D'Agostino , Laura Giordani , Giovanni Mana , Massimo Oddone

The spiked model is an important special case of the Wishart ensemble, and a natural generalization of the white Wishart ensemble. Mathematically, it can be defined on three kinds of variables: the real, the complex and the quaternion. For…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-08 Dong Wang

We consider the problem of identifying the support of the block signal in a sequence when both the length and the location of the block signal are unknown. The multivariate version of this problem is also considered, in which we try to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-21 Jiyao Kou

A central challenge in Gravitational Wave Astronomy is identifying weak signals in the presence of non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise. The separation of gravitational wave signals from noise requires good models for both. When accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson B. Littenberg

The signal plus noise model $H=S+Y$ is a fundamental model in signal detection when a low rank signal $S$ is polluted by noise $Y$. In the high-dimensional setting, one often uses the leading singular values and corresponding singular…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Zhigang Bao , Kha Man Cheong , Jaehun Lee , Yuji Li

In a previous paper (gr-qc/0105100) we derived a set of near-optimal signal detection techniques for gravitational wave detectors whose noise probability distributions contain non-Gaussian tails. The methods modify standard methods by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce Allen , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Eanna E. Flanagan , Joseph D. Romano

We study the problem of detecting a structured, low-rank signal matrix corrupted with additive Gaussian noise. This includes clustering in a Gaussian mixture model, sparse PCA, and submatrix localization. Each of these problems is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Jess Banks , Cristopher Moore , Nicolas Verzelen , Roman Vershynin , Jiaming Xu

Accurate detection of signal components is a frequently-encountered challenge in statistical applications with low signal-to-noise ratio. This problem is particularly challenging in settings with heteroscedastic noise. In certain…

Computation · Statistics 2021-08-19 William Leeb

Consider large signal-plus-noise data matrices of the form $S + \Sigma^{1/2} X$, where $S$ is a low-rank deterministic signal matrix and the noise covariance matrix $\Sigma$ can be anisotropic. We establish the asymptotic joint distribution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Zeqin Lin , Guangming Pan , Peng Zhao , Jia Zhou

We describe updates and improvements to the BayesWave gravitational wave transient analysis pipeline, and provide examples of how the algorithm is used to analyze data from ground-based gravitational wave detectors. BayesWave models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-10 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson B. Littenberg , Bence Bécsy , Katerina Chatziioannou , James A. Clark , Sudarshan Ghonge , Margaret Millhouse

Phase transitions during inflation can generate a stochastic gravitational-wave background that probes primordial physics. We study the detectability and parameter reconstruction of such a signal with a space-based gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Qingyuan Liang , Chen Yang , Haipeng An , Huai-Ke Guo

We present new, original and alternative method for searching signals coded in noisy data. The method is based on the properties of random matrix eigenvalue spectra. First, we describe general ideas and support them with results of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Grech , J. Miskiewicz

This paper investigates the classical statistical signal processing problem of detecting a signal in the presence of colored noise with an unknown covariance matrix. In particular, we consider a scenario where m-dimensional p possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Lahiru D. Chamain , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Saman Atapattu , Chintha Tellambura