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A low rank matrix X has been contaminated by uniformly distributed noise, missing values, outliers and corrupt entries. Reconstruction of X from the singular values and singular vectors of the contaminated matrix Y is a key problem in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Danny Barash , Matan Gavish

We study largest singular values of large random matrices, each with mean of a fixed rank $K$. Our main result is a limit theorem as the number of rows and columns approach infinity, while their ratio approaches a positive constant. It…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Wlodek Bryc , Jack W. Silverstein

We show that singular value decomposition of the lm_head} weight matrix of a transformer-based large language model -- requiring only five lines of PyTorch and no model inference -- reveals interpretable semantic subspaces directly from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hisashi Miyashita

Large-scale foundation models have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of downstream tasks. However, fully fine-tuning these models incurs prohibitive computational costs, motivating the development of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chongjie Si , Xuankun Yang , Muqing Liu , Yadao Wang , Xiaokang Yang , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng , Wei Shen

The paper is concerned with deformed Wigner random matrices. These matrices are closely related to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs): weight matrices of trained DNNs could be represented in the form $R + S$, where $R$ is random and $S$ is highly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ievgenii Afanasiev , Leonid Berlyand , Mariia Kiyashko

Recent works have shown a surprising result: a small fraction of Large Language Model (LLM) parameter outliers are disproportionately important to the quality of the model. LLMs contain billions of parameters, so these small fractions, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mengxia Yu , De Wang , Qi Shan , Colorado J Reed , Alvin Wan

Complex Hermitian random matrices with a unitary symmetry can be distinguished by a weight function. When this is even, it is a known result that the distribution of the singular values can be decomposed as the superposition of two…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Folkmar Bornemann , Peter J. Forrester

We propose new algorithms for singular value decomposition (SVD) of very large-scale matrices based on a low-rank tensor approximation technique called the tensor train (TT) format. The proposed algorithms can compute several dominant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Namgil Lee , Andrzej Cichocki

In the probabilistic topic models, the quantity of interest---a low-rank matrix consisting of topic vectors---is hidden in the text corpus matrix, masked by noise, and the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a potentially useful tool for…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-17 Zheng Tracy Ke

Let $(\varepsilon_{t})_{t>0}$ be a sequence of independent real random vectors of $p$-dimension and let $X_T=\sum_{t=s+1}^{s+T}\varepsilon_t\varepsilon^T_{t-s}/T$ be the lag-$s$ ($s$ is a fixed positive integer) auto-covariance matrix of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Qinwen Wang , Jianfeng Yao

Many complex systems can be reduced to their key components through spectrally decomposing matrices that capture their dynamics. These matrices can in turn be constructed from data, often by least-squares fitting: examples of algorithms to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Caroline Wormell

Post-training fundamentally alters the behavior of large language models (LLMs), yet its impact on the internal parameter space remains poorly understood. In this work, we conduct a systematic singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xinyu He , Xianghui Cao

An important task when processing sensor data is to distinguish relevant from irrelevant data. This paper describes a method for an iterative singular value decomposition that maintains a model of the background via singular vectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Günther Reitberger , Tomas Sauer

Let $\a$ be a real-valued random variable of mean zero and variance 1. Let $M_n(\a)$ denote the $n \times n$ random matrix whose entries are iid copies of $\a$ and $\sigma_n(M_n(\a))$ denote the least singular value of $M_n(\a)$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-04 Terence Tao , Van Vu

A recent development in random matrix theory, the intrinsic freeness principle, establishes that the spectrum of very general random matrices behaves as that of an associated free operator. This reduces the study of such random matrices to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Emre Parmaksiz , Ramon van Handel

Random Matrix Theory (RMT) is applied to analyze weight matrices of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), including both production quality, pre-trained models such as AlexNet and Inception, and smaller models trained from scratch, such as LeNet5…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Charles H. Martin , Michael W. Mahoney

The measurement data collected from the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system installed in distribution network can reflect the operational state of the network effectively. In this paper, a random matrix theory (RMT)…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-12 Xin Shi , Robert Qiu , Xing He , Zenan Ling , Haosen Yang , Lei Chu

Random Matrix Theory (RMT) is applied to analyze the weight matrices of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), including both production quality, pre-trained models such as AlexNet and Inception, and smaller models trained from scratch, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Charles H. Martin , Michael W. Mahoney

Modern Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often operate on high-dimensional data and rely on overparameterized models, where classical low-dimensional intuitions break down. In particular, the proportional regime where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-17 Zhenyu Liao , Michael W. Mahoney

Random Matrix Theory (RMT) has successfully modeled diverse systems, from energy levels of heavy nuclei to zeros of $L$-functions. Many statistics in one can be interpreted in terms of quantities of the other; for example, zeros of…