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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.…

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We study the differential privacy (DP) of the quantum recommendation algorithm of Kerenidis--Prakash and its quantum-inspired classical counterpart. Under standard low-rank and incoherence assumptions on the preference matrix, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Chenjian Li , Mingsheng Ying , Ji Guan

We tackle the problem of estimating a location parameter with differential privacy guarantees and sub-Gaussian deviations. Recent work in statistics has focused on the study of estimators that achieve sub-Gaussian type deviations even for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Marco Avella-Medina , Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

We study the approximation gap between the dynamics of a polynomial-width neural network and its infinite-width counterpart, both trained using projected gradient descent in the mean-field scaling regime. We demonstrate how to tightly bound…

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We introduce a particular construction of an autocorrelation matrix of a time series and its analysis based on the random-matrix theory ideas that is capable of unveiling the type of correlations information which is inaccessible to the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-11 Tayeb Jamali , Hamed Saberi , G. R. Jafari

In practice, differentially private data releases are designed to support a variety of applications. A data release is fit for use if it meets target accuracy requirements for each application. In this paper, we consider the problem of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yingtai Xiao , Zeyu Ding , Yuxin Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

We study spectral graph clustering under edge differential privacy. We propose a matrix shuffling mechanism that combines randomized edge flipping with a random permutation of the adjacency matrix. While edge flipping alone provides only a…

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Bootstrap is a common tool for quantifying uncertainty in data analysis. However, besides additional computational costs in the application of the bootstrap on massive data, a challenging problem in bootstrap based inference under…

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Robust covariance estimation is the following, well-studied problem in high dimensional statistics: given $N$ samples from a $d$-dimensional Gaussian $\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{0}, \Sigma)$, but where an $\varepsilon$-fraction of the samples…

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The well-known Koml\'os-Major-Tusn\'ady inequalities [Z. Wahrsch. Verw. Gebiete 32 (1975) 111-131; Z. Wahrsch. Verw. Gebiete 34 (1976) 33-58] provide sharp inequalities to partial sums of iid standard exponential random variables by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Abdelhakim Necir

We consider the eigenvalue problem for the case where the input matrix is symmetric and its entries perturb in some given intervals. We present a characterization of some of the exact boundary points, which allows us to introduce an inner…

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We consider a toy model for the study of monitored dynamics in a many-body quantum systems. We study the stochastic Schrodinger equation resulting from the continuous monitoring with a rate $\Gamma$ of a random hermitian operator chosen at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Federico Gerbino , Pierre Le Doussal , Guido Giachetti , Andrea De Luca

The classical Davis-Kahan theorem provides an efficient bound on the perturbation of eigenspaces of a matrix under a large (eigenvalue) gap condition. In this paper, we consider the case when the gap is moderate. Using a bootstrapping…

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This is a systematic investigation into the sensitivity of low-rank approximations of real matrices. We show that the low-rank approximation errors, in the two-norm, Frobenius norm and more generally, any Schatten p-norm, are insensitive to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Petros Drineas , Ilse C. F. Ipsen

Many results in the theory of Gaussian processes rely on the eigenstructure of the covariance operator. However, eigenproblems are notoriously hard to solve explicitly and closed form solutions are known only in a limited number of cases.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Pavel Chigansky , Marina Kleptsyna

We revisit the well-studied problem of differentially private empirical risk minimization (ERM). We show that for unconstrained convex generalized linear models (GLMs), one can obtain an excess empirical risk of $\tilde…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Shuang Song , Thomas Steinke , Om Thakkar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Modern machine learning algorithms aim to extract fine-grained information from data to provide accurate predictions, which often conflicts with the goal of privacy protection. This paper addresses the practical and theoretical importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-17 Puyu Wang , Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying , Ding-Xuan Zhou

For a matrix ${\bf A}$ with linearly independent columns, this work studies to use its normalization $\bar{\bf A}$ and ${\bf A}$ itself to approximate its orthonormalization $\bf V$. We theoretically analyze the order of the approximation…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

We investigate the top of the spectrum of discrete Anderson Hamiltonians with correlated Gaussian noise in the large volume limit. The class of Gaussian noises under consideration allows for long-range correlations. We show that the largest…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Giuseppe Cannizzaro , Cyril Labbé , Willem van Zuijlen

In this paper, we will present a strong (or pathwise) approximation of standard Brownian motion by a class of orthogonal polynomials. The coefficients that are obtained from the expansion of Brownian motion in this polynomial basis are…

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