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We study improved approximations to the distribution of the largest eigenvalue $\hat{\ell}$ of the sample covariance matrix of $n$ zero-mean Gaussian observations in dimension $p+1$. We assume that one population principal component has…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Jeha Yang , Iain M. Johnstone

Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a widely used iterative algorithm for computing maximum likelihood estimate when dealing with Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). When the sample size is smaller than the data dimension, this could lead…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-06 Pierre Houdouin , Matthieu Jonkcheere , Frederic Pascal

This paper deals with symmetric random matrices whose upper diagonal entries are obtained from a linear random field with heavy tailed noise. It is shown that the maximum eigenvalue and the spectral radius of such a random matrix with…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Arijit Chakrabarty , Rajat Subhra Hazra , Parthanil Roy

We present detailed computations of the 'at least finite' terms (three dominant orders) of the free energy in a one-cut matrix model with a hard edge a, in beta-ensembles, with any polynomial potential. beta is a positive number, so not…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gaëtan Borot , Bertrand Eynard , Satya N. Majumdar , Céline Nadal

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is a robust method for shape classification. It takes an embedded shape and, for each direction, computes a piecewise constant function representing the Euler Characteristic of the shape's sublevel…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jasmine George , Oscar Lledo Osborn , Elizabeth Munch , Messiah Ridgley , Elena Xinyi Wang

We numerically study the extreme-value statistics of the Schmidt eigenvalues of reduced density matrices obtained from the ergodic eigenstates. We start by exploring the extreme value statistics of the ultrametric random matrices and then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Tanay Pathak

In this paper, we study tail inequalities of the largest eigenvalue of a matrix infinitely divisible (i.d.) series, which is a finite sum of fixed matrices weighted by i.d. random variables. We obtain several types of tail inequalities,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chao Zhang , Xianjie Gao , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Hanyuan Hang , Dacheng Tao

The Expectation Maximisation (EM) algorithm is widely used to optimise non-convex likelihood functions with latent variables. Many authors modified its simple design to fit more specific situations. For instance, the Expectation (E) step…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Thomas Lartigue , Stanley Durrleman , Stéphanie Allassonnière

In this paper we focus on the finite n probability distribution function of the largest eigenvalue in the classical Gaussian Ensemble of n by n matrices (GEn). We derive the finite n largest eigenvalue probability distribution function for…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-28 Leonard N. Choup

Estimating the probabilistic Worst-Case Execution Time (pWCET) is essential for ensuring the timing correctness of real-time applications, such as in robot IoT systems and autonomous driving systems. While methods based on Extreme Value…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Hayate Toba , Atsushi Yano , Takuya Azumi

The Euler characteristic (EC) is a powerful topological descriptor that can be used to quantify the shape of data objects that are represented as fields/manifolds. Fast methods for computing the EC are required to enable processing of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Daniel J. Laky , Victor M. Zavala

The problem of recovering the configuration of points from their partial pairwise distances, referred to as the Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem, arises in a broad range of applications, including sensor network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

We present the results of systematic numerical computations relating to the extreme value statistics of the characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices drawn from the Circular Unitary Ensemble (CUE) of Random Matrix Theory. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 Yan V. Fyodorov , Sven Gnutzmann , Jonathan P. Keating

The Tracy-Widom beta distribution is the large dimensional limit of the top eigenvalue of beta random matrix ensembles. We use the stochastic Airy operator representation to show that as a tends to infinity the tail of the Tracy Widom…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-27 Laure Dumaz , Bálint Virág

We develop an unsupervised mixture model for non-negative, skewed and heavy-tailed data, such as losses in actuarial and risk management applications. The mixture has a lognormal component, which is usually appropriate for the body of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-29 Marco Bee , Flavio Santi

In this work a novel method to quantify spectral ergodicity for random matrices is presented. The new methodology combines approaches rooted in the metrics of Thirumalai-Mountain (TM) and Kullbach-Leibler (KL) divergence. The method is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-07 Mehmet Süzen , Cornelius Weber , Joan J. Cerdà

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

The article considers an inhomogeneous Erd\H{o}s-R\"enyi random graph on $\{1,\ldots, N\}$, where an edge is placed between vertices $i$ and $j$ with probability $\varepsilon_N f(i/N,j/N)$, for $i\le j$, the choice being made independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Arijit Chakrabarty , Sukrit Chakraborty , Rajat Subhra Hazra

We analyze the behavior of stochastic approximation algorithms where iterates, in expectation, progress towards an objective at each step. When progress is proportional to the step size of the algorithm, we prove exponential concentration…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-26 Kody Law , Neil Walton , Shangda Yang

In this paper, we first briefly review some recent results on the distribution of the maximal eigenvalue of a $(N\times N)$ random matrix drawn from Gaussian ensembles. Next we focus on the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE) and by suitably…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-30 Celine Nadal , Satya N. Majumdar