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The ultimate sensitivity of optical detection is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The first part of the paper shows that coherence plays an important role in the noise analysis. Although interference between an auxiliary wave and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taras Plakhotnik

This paper studies low-rank matrix completion in the presence of heavy-tailed and possibly asymmetric noise, where we aim to estimate an underlying low-rank matrix given a set of highly incomplete noisy entries. Though the matrix completion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Bingyan Wang , Jianqing Fan

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…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Hao Yan , Keith Levin

Evaluation of the eigenvectors of symmetric tridiagonal matrices is one of the most basic tasks in numerical linear algebra. It is a widely known fact that, in the case of well separated eigenvalues, the eigenvectors can be evaluated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Andrei Osipov

This paper considers the problem of recovery of a low-rank matrix in the situation when most of its entries are not observed and a fraction of observed entries are corrupted. The observations are noisy realizations of the sum of a low rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Olga Klopp , Karim Lounici , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We compute the spectral density for ensembles of of sparse symmetric random matrices using replica, managing to circumvent difficulties that have been encountered in earlier approaches along the lines first suggested in a seminal paper by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Reimer Kuehn

Let A be an n x n symmetric random matrix whose upper-triangular entries are independent and follow possibly non-identical subgaussian distributions. This paper investigates the spectral properties of A, including its eigenvalues and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zeyan Song , Hanchao Wang

In the problem of learning mixtures of linear regressions, the goal is to learn a collection of signal vectors from a sequence of (possibly noisy) linear measurements, where each measurement is evaluated on an unknown signal drawn uniformly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Arya Mazumdar , Andrew McGregor , Soumyabrata Pal

We develop a theoretical approach to compute the conditioned spectral density of $N \times N$ non-invariant random matrices in the limit $N \rightarrow \infty$. This large deviation observable, defined as the eigenvalue distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-15 Isaac Pérez Castillo , Fernando L. Metz

Motivated by applications such as sparse PCA, in this paper we present provably-accurate one-pass algorithms for the sparse approximation of the top eigenvectors of extremely massive matrices based on a single compact linear sketch. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Edem Boahen , Simone Brugiapaglia , Hung-Hsu Chou , Mark Iwen , Felix Krahmer

We provide faster algorithms and improved sample complexities for approximating the top eigenvector of a matrix. Offline Setting: Given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$, we show how to compute an $\epsilon$ approximate top eigenvector in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Chi Jin , Sham M. Kakade , Cameron Musco , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford

In this paper, we consider the singular values and singular vectors of low rank perturbations of large rectangular random matrices, in the regime the matrix is "long": we allow the number of rows (columns) to grow polynomially in the number…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Gérard Ben Arous , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang

We analyze gene co-expression network under the random matrix theory framework. The nearest neighbor spacing distribution of the adjacency matrix of this network follows Gaussian orthogonal statistics of random matrix theory (RMT). Spectral…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-18 Sarika Jalan , Norbert Solymosi , Gabör Vattay , Baowen Li

We study the problem of estimating a large, low-rank matrix corrupted by additive noise of unknown covariance, assuming one has access to additional side information in the form of noise-only measurements. We study the Whiten-Shrink-reColor…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Matan Gavish , William Leeb , Elad Romanov

We consider the ensemble of adjacency matrices of Erd{\H o}s-R\'enyi random graphs, i.e.\ graphs on $N$ vertices where every edge is chosen independently and with probability $p \equiv p(N)$. We rescale the matrix so that its bulk…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Laszlo Erdos , Antti Knowles , Horng-Tzer Yau , Jun Yin

We study high-dimensional least-squares regression within a subgaussian statistical learning framework with heterogeneous noise. It includes $s$-sparse and $r$-low-rank least-squares regression when a fraction $\epsilon$ of the labels are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Philip Thompson

In this paper we consider the task of estimating the non-zero pattern of the sparse inverse covariance matrix of a zero-mean Gaussian random vector from a set of iid samples. Note that this is also equivalent to recovering the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Christopher C. Johnson , Ali Jalali , Pradeep Ravikumar

The problem of partitioning a large and sparse tensor is considered, where the tensor consists of a sequence of adjacency matrices. Theory is developed that is a generalization of spectral graph partitioning. A best rank-$(2,2,\lambda)$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Lars Eldén , Maryam Dehghan

Eigenvalues of Wigner matrices has been a major topic of investigation. A particularly important subclass of such random matrices is formed by the adjacency matrix of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graph $\mathcal{G}_{n,p}$ equipped with i.i.d.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Shirshendu Ganguly , Ella Hiesmayr , Kyeongsik Nam

Sparse non-Hermitian random matrices arise in the study of disordered physical systems with asymmetric local interactions, and have applications ranging from neural networks to ecosystem dynamics. The spectral characteristics of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-21 Fernando Lucas Metz , Izaak Neri , Tim Rogers