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The Drazin index is a fundamental invariant in the analysis of singular matrices and their generalized inverses. While sharp results are available for block triangular matrices, the corresponding theory for anti-triangular block matrices is…

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Complex systems are high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems with intricate interactions among their constituents. To make interpretable predictions about their large-scale behavior, it is typically assumed, without a clear statement,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-11-07 Vincent Thibeault , Antoine Allard , Patrick Desrosiers

Various types of stabilizing controls lead to a deterministic difference equation with the following property: once the initial value is positive, the solution tends to the unique positive equilibrium. Introducing additive perturbations can…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Elena Braverman , Alexandra Rodkina

This paper presents a new systematic framework for nonlinear singularly perturbed systems in which state-dependent perturbation functions are used instead of constant perturbation coefficients. Under this framework, general results are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Tengfei Liu , Zhong-Ping Jiang

For piecewise expanding one-dimensional maps without periodic turning points we prove that isolated eigenvalues of small (random) perturbations of these maps are close to isolated eigenvalues of the unperturbed system. (Here ``eigenvalue''…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael Blank , Gerhard Keller

Despite its nonconvexity, policy optimization for the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) admits a favorable structural property known as gradient dominance, which facilitates linear convergence of policy gradient methods to the globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yuto Watanabe , Yang Zheng

This paper studies inference in linear models with a high-dimensional parameter matrix that can be well-approximated by a ``spiked low-rank matrix.'' A spiked low-rank matrix has rank that grows slowly compared to its dimensions and nonzero…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Victor Chernozhukov , Christian Hansen , Yuan Liao , Yinchu Zhu

A primary interest in dynamic inverse problems is to identify the underlying temporal behaviour of the system from outside measurements. In this work we consider the case, where the target can be represented by a decomposition of spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Simon Arridge , Pascal Fernsel , Andreas Hauptmann

A rank-adaptive integrator for the dynamical low-rank approximation of matrix and tensor differential equations is presented. The fixed-rank integrator recently proposed by two of the authors is extended to allow for an adaptive choice of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Gianluca Ceruti , Jonas Kusch , Christian Lubich

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for nonlinear discrete-time systems with parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach constructs a data-consistent closed-loop representation that enables…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Amir Modares , Bahare Kiumarsi , Hamidreza Modares

The low-complexity assumption in linear systems can often be expressed as rank deficiency in data matrices with generalized Hankel structure. This makes it possible to denoise the data by estimating the underlying structured low-rank…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Mingzhou Yin , Roy S. Smith

We consider whether algorithmic choices in over-parameterized linear matrix factorization introduce implicit regularization. We focus on noiseless matrix sensing over rank-$r$ positive semi-definite (PSD) matrices in $\mathbb{R}^{n \times…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-16 Kelly Geyer , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Amir Kalev

We study a matrix that arises from a singular form of the Woodbury matrix identity. We present generalized inverse and pseudo-determinant identities for this matrix, which have direct applications for Gaussian process regression,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Siavash Ameli , Shawn C. Shadden

This paper develops matrix-multiplication-based iterative refinement for diagonalizable non-Hermitian eigendecompositions. The main theory concerns simple eigenvalues and distinguishes two input regimes. In the right-only regime, where only…

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We present a framework for learning disentangled and interpretable jointly continuous and discrete representations in an unsupervised manner. By augmenting the continuous latent distribution of variational autoencoders with a relaxed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-23 Emilien Dupont

This paper introduces a framework to study discrete optimization problems which are parametric in the following sense: their constraint matrices correspond to matrices over the ring $\mathbb{Z}[x]$ of polynomials in one variable. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Marcel Celaya , Stefan Kuhlmann , Robert Weismantel

The modelling of discrete regulatory networks combines a graph specifying the pairwise influences between the variables of the system, and a parametrisation from which can be derived a discrete transition system. Given the influence graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Juraj Kolčák , David Šafránek , Stefan Haar , Loïc Paulevé

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

Gradient descent for matrix factorization exhibits an implicit bias toward approximately low-rank solutions. While existing theories often assume the boundedness of iterates, empirically the bias persists even with unbounded sequences. This…

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