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Asymptotic behavior of the singular value decomposition (SVD) of blown up matrices and normalized blown up contingency tables exposed to Wigner-noise is investigated.It is proved that such an m\times n matrix almost surely has a constant…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-01-11 Marianna Bolla , Katalin Friedl , Andras Kramli

Matrix completion algorithms recover a low rank matrix from a small fraction of the entries, each entry contaminated with additive errors. In practice, the singular vectors and singular values of the low rank matrix play a pivotal role for…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-03 Juhee Cho , Donggyu Kim , Karl Rohe

Random matrix theory (RMT) provides a framework to study the spectral fluctuations in physical systems. RMT is capable of making predictions for the fluctuations only after the removal of the secular properties of the spectrum. Spectral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-02 Sherif M. Abuelenin

Computing the first few singular vectors of a large matrix is a problem that frequently comes up in statistics and numerical analysis. Given the presence of noise, exact calculation is hard to achieve, and the following problem is of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Van Vu

This thesis addresses two persistent and closely related challenges in modern deep learning, reliability and efficiency, through a unified framework grounded in Spectral Geometry and Random Matrix Theory (RMT). As deep networks and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Davide Ettori

We perturb a real matrix $A$ of full column rank, and derive lower bounds for the smallest singular values of the perturbed matrix, in terms of normwise absolute perturbations. Our bounds, which extend existing lower-order expressions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Christos Boutsikas , Petros Drineas , Ilse C. F. Ipsen

Large-dimensional random matrix theory, RMT for short, which originates from the research field of quantum physics, has shown tremendous capability in providing deep insights into large dimensional systems. With the fact that we have…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Jungang Ge , Ying-Chang Liang , Zhidong Bai , Guangming Pan

We study the gaps between consecutive singular values of random rectangular matrices. Specifically, if $M$ is an $n \times p$ random matrix with independent and identically distributed entries and $\Sigma$ is a $n \times n$ deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Nicholas Christoffersen , Kyle Luh , Sean O'Rourke , Calum Shearer

We analyze statistical properties of complex eigenvalues of random matrices $\hat{A}$ close to unitary. Such matrices appear naturally when considering quantized chaotic maps within a general theory of open linear stationary systems with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yan V. Fyodorov

We develop new techniques for proving lower bounds on the least singular value of random matrices with limited randomness. The matrices we consider have entries that are given by polynomials of a few underlying base random variables. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Aditya Bhaskara , Eric Evert , Vaidehi Srinivas , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a powerful tool for multivariate analysis. However, independent computation of the SVD for each sample taken from a bandlimited matrix random process will result in singular value sample paths whose…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 D. W. Browne , M. W. Browne , M. P. Fitz

Relying on random matrix theory (RMT), this paper studies asymmetric order-$d$ spiked tensor models with Gaussian noise. Using the variational definition of the singular vectors and values of (Lim, 2005), we show that the analysis of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Maxime Guillaud , Romain Couillet

Random contractions (sub-unitary random matrices) appear naturally when considering quantized chaotic maps within a general theory of open linear stationary systems with discrete time. We analyze statistical properties of complex…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yan V. Fyodorov , H. -J. Sommmers

This review article provides an overview of random matrix theory (RMT) with a focus on its growing impact on the formulation and inference of statistical models and methodologies. Emphasizing applications within high-dimensional statistics,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-11 Swapnaneel Bhattacharyya , Srijan Chattopadhyay , Sevantee Basu

Scattering of electromagnetic waves in billiard-like systems has become a standard experimental tool of studying properties associated with Quantum Chaos. Random Matrix Theory (RMT) describing statistics of eigenfrequencies and associated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-11 Yan V Fyodorov

We formulate gaussian and circular random-matrix models representing a coupled system consisting of an absorbing and an amplifying resonator, which are mutually related by a generalized time-reversal symmetry. Motivated by optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 Christopher Birchall , Henning Schomerus

Previous research has shown that the principal singular vectors of a pre-trained model's weight matrices capture critical knowledge. In contrast, those associated with small singular values may contain noise or less reliable information. As…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Zhe Li , Man-wai Mak , Mert Pilanci , Hung-yi Lee , Helen Meng

Estimating the number of signals embedded in noise is a fundamental problem in array signal processing. The classic RMT estimator based on random matrix theory (RMT) tends to under-estimate the number of signals as it does not consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Huiyue Yi

We propose an empirical approach centered on the spectral dynamics of weights -- the behavior of singular values and vectors during optimization -- to unify and clarify several phenomena in deep learning. We identify a consistent bias in…

We investigate whether the Wigner semi-circle and Marcenko-Pastur distributions, often used for deep neural network theoretical analysis, match empirically observed spectral densities. We find that even allowing for outliers, the observed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Diego Granziol