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The problem of structured matrix estimation has been studied mostly under strong noise dependence assumptions. This paper considers a general framework of noisy low-rank-plus-sparse matrix recovery, where the noise matrix may come from any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Jinhang Chai , Jianqing Fan

Recovery of the sparsity pattern (or support) of an unknown sparse vector from a small number of noisy linear measurements is an important problem in compressed sensing. In this paper, the high-dimensional setting is considered. It is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Galen Reeves , Michael Gastpar

Statistical properties of non--symmetric real random matrices of size $M$, obtained as truncations of random orthogonal $N\times N$ matrices are investigated. We derive an exact formula for the density of eigenvalues which consists of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-21 Boris A. Khoruzhenko , Hans-Juergen Sommers , Karol Zyczkowski

This paper investigates the signal detection problem in colored Gaussian noise with an unknown covariance matrix. To be specific, we consider a sample deficient scenario in which the number of signal bearing samples ($n$) is strictly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Saman Atapattu , Jamie Evans , Kandeepan Sithamparanathan

We consider the weak detection problem in a rank-one spiked Wigner data matrix where the signal-to-noise ratio is small so that reliable detection is impossible. We propose a hypothesis test on the presence of the signal by utilizing the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Hye Won Chung , Ji Oon Lee

In this text, we consider an N by N random matrix X such that all but o(N) rows of X have W non identically zero entries, the other rows having lass than $W$ entries (such as, for example, standard or cyclic band matrices). We always…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Florent Benaych-Georges , Sandrine Péché

We study the Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) problem in a high-dimensional setting where data lies in a low-dimensional subspace and is corrupted by Gaussian noise. Specifically, we consider a semi-random model in which $n$ points from an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ravindran Kannan , Kijun Shin , David Woodruff

This paper examines a general class of noisy matrix completion tasks where the goal is to estimate a matrix from observations obtained at a subset of its entries, each of which is subject to random noise or corruption. Our specific focus is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-18 Akshay Soni , Swayambhoo Jain , Jarvis Haupt , Stefano Gonella

We propose a method for estimating the entries of a large noisy matrix when the variance of the noise, $\sigma^2$, is unknown without putting any assumption on the rank of the matrix. We consider the estimator for $\sigma$ introduced by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Mona Azadkia

The spectral density of various ensembles of sparse symmetric random matrices is analyzed using the cavity method. We consider two cases: matrices whose associated graphs are locally tree-like, and sparse covariance matrices. We derive a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Tim Rogers , Koujin Takeda , Isaac Pérez Castillo , Reimer Kühn

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Phuc Tran , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Many important problems are characterized by the eigenvalues of a large matrix. For example, the difficulty of many optimization problems, such as those arising from the fitting of large models in statistics and machine learning, can be…

Real non-symmetric matrices may have either real or complex conjugate eigenvalues. These matrices can be seen to be pseudo-symmetric as $\eta M \eta^{-1} = M^t$, where the metric $\eta$ could be secular (a constant matrix) or depending upon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 Sachin Kumar , Zafar Ahmed

In this paper, we adopt the eigenvector empirical spectral distribution (VESD) to investigate the limiting behavior of eigenvectors of a large dimensional Wigner matrix W_n. In particular, we derive the optimal bound for the rate of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Ningning Xia , Zhidong Bai

We investigate the high-dimensional linear regression problem in the presence of noise correlated with Gaussian covariates. This correlation, known as endogeneity in regression models, often arises from unobserved variables and other…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Toshiki Tsuda , Masaaki Imaizumi

We consider the random geometric graph on $n$ vertices drawn uniformly from a $d$--dimensional sphere. We focus on the sparse regime, when the expected degree is constant independent of $d$ and $n$. We show that, when $d$ is larger than $n$…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Elliot Paquette , Andrew Vander Werf

Estimating covariance matrices is a problem of fundamental importance in multivariate statistics. In practice it is increasingly frequent to work with data matrices $X$ of dimension $n\times p$, where $p$ and $n$ are both large. Results…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Noureddine El Karoui

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

Using the replica method, we develop an analytical approach to compute the characteristic function for the probability $\mathcal{P}_N(K,\lambda)$ that a large $N \times N$ adjacency matrix of sparse random graphs has $K$ eigenvalues below a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-04 Fernando L. Metz , Daniel A. Stariolo

In random matrices with independent and continuous matrix entries, the degeneracy probability of the eigenvalues is known to be zero. In this paper, random matrices including discontinuous matrix entries are analyzed in order to observe how…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Masanari Shimura