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Estimating the leading principal components of data, assuming they are sparse, is a central task in modern high-dimensional statistics. Many algorithms were developed for this sparse PCA problem, from simple diagonal thresholding to…
We establish a finite-sample Berry-Esseen theorem for the entrywise limits of the eigenvectors for a broad collection of signal-plus-noise random matrix models under challenging weak signal regimes. The signal strength is characterized by a…
We introduce a class of $M \times M$ sample covariance matrices $\mathcal Q$ which subsumes and generalizes several previous models. The associated population covariance matrix $\Sigma = \mathbb E \cal Q$ is assumed to differ from the…
The paper discusses progress in understanding statistical properties of complex eigenvalues (and corresponding eigenvectors) of weakly non-unitary and non-Hermitian random matrices. Ensembles of this type emerge in various physical…
In this paper, we investigate condition numbers of eigenvalue problems of matrix polynomials with nonsingular leading coefficients, generalizing classical results of matrix perturbation theory. We provide a relation between the condition…
We consider $n\times n$ real symmetric and hermitian random matrices $H_{n,m}$ equals the sum of a non-random matrix $H_{n}^{(0)}$ matrix and the sum of $m$ rank-one matrices determined by $m$ i.i.d. isotropic random vectors with…
We consider the non-Hermitian XY spin chain with open boundary conditions when the anisotropy parameter is extended to complex values. By analyzing the quasi-Hamiltonian matrix, we demonstrate that the free-fermion structure of the…
We consider the problem of estimating the factors of a rank-$1$ matrix with i.i.d. Gaussian, rank-$1$ measurements that are nonlinearly transformed and corrupted by noise. Considering two prototypical choices for the nonlinearity, we study…
We investigate concentration properties of spectral measures of Hermitian random matrices with partially dependent entries. More precisely, let $X_n$ be a Hermitian random matrix of size $n\times n$ that can be split into independent blocks…
Consider a matrix $\Sigma_n$ with random independent entries, each non-centered with a separable variance profile. In this article, we study the limiting behavior of the random bilinear form $u_n^* Q_n(z) v_n$, where $u_n$ and $v_n$ are…
We study the closure of the projection of the (nonconvex) cone of rank restricted positive semidefinite matrices onto subsets of the matrix entries. This defines the feasible sets for semidefinite completion problems with restrictions on…
We use tools from random matrix theory to study the multi-spiked tensor model, i.e., a rank-$r$ deformation of a symmetric random Gaussian tensor. In particular, thanks to the nature of local optimization methods used to find the maximum…
We study the eigenvalue distribution and resolvent of a Kronecker-product random matrix model $A \otimes I_{n \times n}+I_{n \times n} \otimes B+\Theta \otimes \Xi \in \mathbb{C}^{n^2 \times n^2}$, where $A,B$ are independent Wigner…
We compute analytically the joint probability density of eigenvalues and the level spacing statistics for an ensemble of random matrices with interesting features. It is invariant under the standard symmetry groups (orthogonal and unitary)…
In an earlier work we had considered a Gaussian ensemble of random matrices in the presence of a given external matrix source. The measure is no longer unitary invariant and the usual techniques based on orthogonal polynomials, or on the…
Consider $n$ linearly independent vectors in $\mathbb{C}^n$ which form columns of a matrix $A$. The recursive evaluation of eigen directions (normalized eigenvectors) of $A$ is the solution of an eigenvalue problem of the form…
Let $X_1,..., X_N\in\R^n$ be independent centered random vectors with log-concave distribution and with the identity as covariance matrix. We show that with overwhelming probability at least $1 - 3 \exp(-c\sqrt{n}\r)$ one has $ \sup_{x\in…
We provide a perturbative expansion for the empirical spectral distribution of a Hermitian matrix with large size perturbed by a random matrix with small operator norm whose entries in the eigenvector basis of the first one are independent…
We study the eigenvalue correlations of random Hermitian $n\times n$ matrices of the form $S=M+\epsilon H$, where $H$ is a GUE matrix, $\epsilon>0$, and $M$ is a positive-definite Hermitian random matrix, independent of $H$, whose…
Computing the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a perturbed matrix can be remarkably difficult when the unperturbed matrix has repeated eigenvalues. In this work we show how the limiting eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix…