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We establish deviation inequalities for the maxima of partial sums of a martingale differences sequence, and of a strictly stationary orthomartingale random field. These inequalities can be used to establish complete convergence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Davide Giraudo

This article is dedicated to the following class of problems. Start with an $N\times N$ Hermitian matrix randomly picked from a matrix ensemble - the reference matrix. Applying a rank-$t$ perturbation to it, with $t$ taking the values $1\le…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Barbara Dietz , Holger Schanz , Uzy Smilansky , Hans Weidenmüller

This paper considers sparse spiked covariance matrix models in the high-dimensional setting and studies the minimax estimation of the covariance matrix and the principal subspace as well as the minimax rank detection. The optimal rate of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Tony Cai , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

Let $X$ be a $d\times d$ symmetric random matrix with independent but non-identically distributed Gaussian entries. It has been conjectured by Lata\l{a} that the spectral norm of $X$ is always of the same order as the largest Euclidean norm…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Ramon van Handel

Let $\mathbf{a}_{ij}$, $1\leq i\leq j\leq n$, be independent random variables and $\mathbf{a}_{ji}=\mathbf{a}_{ij}$, for all $i,j$. Suppose that every $\mathbf{a}_{ij}$ is bounded, has zero mean, and its variance is given by…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Victor M. Preciado , M. Amin Rahimian

We obtain variance inequalities for quadratic forms of weakly dependent random variables with bounded fourth moments. We also discuss two application. Namely, we use these inequalities for deriving the limiting spectral distribution of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Pavel Yaskov

In this paper, we give upper and lower bounds for the spectral radius of a nonnegative irreducible matrix and characterize the equality cases. These bounds theoretically improve and generalize some known results of Duan et al.[X. Duan, B.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Shu-Yu Cui , Gui-Xian Tian

The spectral $k$-support norm enjoys good estimation properties in low rank matrix learning problems, empirically outperforming the trace norm. Its unit ball is the convex hull of rank $k$ matrices with unit Frobenius norm. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Andrew M. McDonald , Massimiliano Pontil , Dimitris Stamos

We prove an inequality for the spectral norm of matrix valued stochastic integrals. This inequality can be seen either as a non-commutative version of the Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequality or as an extension of the non-commutative…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Tom Maître

In this paper, we consider the singular values and singular vectors of finite, low rank perturbations of large rectangular random matrices. Specifically, we prove almost sure convergence of the extreme singular values and appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Florent Benaych-Georges , Raj Rao Nadakuditi

We prove a stochastic Gronwall lemma of the following type: if $Z$ is an adapted nonnegative continuous process which satisfies a linear integral inequality with an added continuous local martingale $M$ and a process $H$ on the right hand…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Michael Scheutzow

Consider a square matrix with independent and identically distributed entries of zero mean and unit variance. It is well known that if the entries have a finite fourth moment, then, in high dimension, with high probability, the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Charles Bordenave , Pietro Caputo , Djalil Chafai , Konstantin Tikhomirov

We develop a unified approach to bounding the largest and smallest singular values of an inhomogeneous random rectangular matrix, based on the non-backtracking operator and the Ihara-Bass formula for general random Hermitian matrices with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Ioana Dumitriu , Yizhe Zhu

We study the optimal estimation of probability matrices of random graph models generated from graphons. This problem has been extensively studied in the case of step-graphons and H\"older smooth graphons. In this work, we characterize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Yuchen Chen , Jing Lei

Consider an $n\times n$ matrix polynomial $P(\lambda)$ and a set $\Sigma$ consisting of $k \le n$ distinct complex numbers. In this paper, a (weighted) spectral norm distance from $P(\lambda)$ to the matrix polynomials whose spectra include…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-26 E. Kokabifar , G. B. Loghmani , P. J. Psarrakos , S. M. Karbassi

The spectral form factor of random matrix theory plays a key role in the description of disordered and chaotic quantum systems. While its moments are known to be approximately Gaussian, corrections subleading in the matrix dimension, $D$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Alex Altland , Francisco Divi , Tobias Micklitz , Silvia Pappalardi , Maedeh Rezaei

We provide non-asymptotic, relative deviation bounds for the eigenvalues of empirical covariance and Gram matrices in general settings. Unlike typical uniform bounds, which may fail to capture the behavior of smaller eigenvalues, our…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Daniel Barzilai , Ohad Shamir

Given a discrete-time linear switched system $\Sigma(\mathcal A)$ associated with a finite set $\mathcal A$ of matrices, we consider the measures of its asymptotic behavior given by, on the one hand, its deterministic joint spectral radius…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Yacine Chitour , Guilherme Mazanti , Mario Sigalotti

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

We consider the set M_n of all n-truncated power moment sequences of probability measures on [0,1]. We endow this set with the uniform probability. Picking randomly a point in M_n, we show that the upper canonical measure associated with…

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