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We propose a theory of eigenvalues, eigenvectors, singular values, and singular vectors for tensors based on a constrained variational approach much like the Rayleigh quotient for symmetric matrix eigenvalues. These notions are particularly…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lek-Heng Lim

Understanding the inner workings of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a critical research frontier. Prior research has shown that a single LLM's concept representations can be captured as steering vectors (SVs), enabling the control of LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Youcheng Huang , Chen Huang , Duanyu Feng , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), an important tool used in machine learning in particular for unsupervized learning tasks, is investigated from the perspective of its spectral properties. Starting from empirical observations, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-17 Aurélien Decelle , Giancarlo Fissore , Cyril Furtlehner

Multivariate statistical analysis is concerned with observations on several variables which are thought to possess some degree of inter-dependence. Driven by problems in genetics and the social sciences, it first flowered in the earlier…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Iain M. Johnstone

Large Language Models (LLMs) are pretrained on massive datasets and later instruction-tuned via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or reinforcement learning (RL). Best practices emphasize large, diverse pretraining data, whereas post-training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Adel Javanmard , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Vahab Mirrokni

Masked Language Modeling (MLM) is widely used to pretrain language models. The standard random masking strategy in MLM causes the pre-trained language models (PLMs) to be biased toward high-frequency tokens. Representation learning of rare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Linhan Zhang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Chong Deng , Xin Cao , Kongzhang Hao , Yuxin Jiang , Wei Wang

We consider the singular vectors of any $m \times n$ submatrix of a rectangular $M \times N$ Gaussian matrix and study their asymptotic overlaps with those of the full matrix, in the macroscopic regime where $N \,/\, M\,$, $m \,/\, M$ as…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Elie Attal , Romain Allez

Singular value decomposition (SVD) is one of the most popular compression methods that approximate a target matrix with smaller matrices. However, standard SVD treats the parameters within the matrix with equal importance, which is a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ting Hua , Yen-Chang Hsu , Felicity Wang , Qian Lou , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

The inference of a large symmetric signal-matrix $\mathbf{S} \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times N}$ corrupted by additive Gaussian noise, is considered for two regimes of growth of the rank $M$ as a function of $N$. For sub-linear ranks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Farzad Pourkamali , Jean Barbier , Nicolas Macris

We take on a Random Matrix theory viewpoint to study the spectrum of certain reversible Markov chains in random environment. As the number of states tends to infinity, we consider the global behavior of the spectrum, and the local behavior…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Charles Bordenave , Pietro Caputo , Djalil Chafai

This article carries out a large dimensional analysis of standard regularized discriminant analysis classifiers designed on the assumption that data arise from a Gaussian mixture model with different means and covariances. The analysis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-19 Khalil Elkhalil , Abla Kammoun , Romain Couillet , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Random-matrix theory is applied to transition-rate matrices in the Pauli master equation. We study the distribution and correlations of eigenvalues, which govern the dynamics of complex stochastic systems. Both the cases of identical and of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Carsten Timm

Spectral properties of random matrices play an important role in statistics, machine learning, communications, and many other areas. Engaging results regarding the convergence of the empirical spectral distribution (ESD) and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Zeyan Zhuang , Xin Zhang , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song

This paper develops a unified analytical framework for determinant identities under finite-rank perturbations of square matrices that remains valid without invertibility assumptions. In contrast to classical inverse-based formulations, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Robert Vrabel

In the recent paper \cite{1}, Denton et al. provided the eigenvector-eigenvalue identity for Hermitian matrices, and a survey was also given for such identity in the literature. The main aim of this paper is to present the identity related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Weiwei Xu , Michael K. Ng

The spectral statistics of non-Hermitian random matrices are of importance as a diagnostic tool for chaotic behavior in open quantum systems. Here, we investigate the statistical properties of singular values in non-Hermitian random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Kohei Kawabata , Zhenyu Xiao , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable breakthroughs. However, the huge number of parameters in LLMs require significant amount of memory storage in inference, which prevents their practical deployment in many applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jingcun Wang , Yu-Guang Chen , Ing-Chao Lin , Bing Li , Grace Li Zhang

Truncated singular value decomposition is a reduced version of the singular value decomposition in which only a few largest singular values are retained. This paper presents a novel perturbation analysis for the truncated singular value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Trung Vu , Evgenia Chunikhina , Raviv Raich

Metric regularity is among the central concepts of nonlinear and variational analysis, constrained optimization, and their numerous applications. However, metric regularity can be elusive for some important ill-posed classes of problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-30 Mario Jelitte , Boris S. Mordukhovich

Large language model pre-training typically exhibits a two-phase trajectory: a fast initial loss drop followed by a prolonged slow improvement. We identify an underlying spectral phenomenon, Stability of Singular Distribution (SoSD), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hongtao Zhang , Wenjie Zhou , Chenxi Jia , Wei Chen , Xueqi Cheng