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What does a product of many Gaussian matrices converge to?
Let $A$ be a product of $n$ $d\times d$ matrices with IID standard Gaussian entries and consider the value of $g(x)=x f(x)$ where $f(x)$ is the density of squared singular values of $A/\|A\|$.
Is ...
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High-probability lower bound for norm of least squares solution when both design matrix $X$ and response vector $y$ are random (and independent)
Let $n,d \to \infty$ with $n/d \to \gamma \in (0,\infty)$. Let $X$ be a random $n \times d$ matrix independent rows uniformly distributed on the the unit-sphere in $\mathbb R^d$ and let $y$ be a ...
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RMT for modified Wishard matrix $Y'Y$ (where $i$th row of $Y$ is zero if $|x_i^\top u| \le \theta$; else it equals $x_i$)
Let $n$ and $d$ be positive integers tending to infinity such that $d/n \to \phi \in (0,\infty)$. Let $X$ be an $n \times d$ random matrix with iid rows $x_1,\ldots,x_n$ from $N(0, \Sigma)$, where $\...
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Sum of independent Wisharts
Suppose random vectors $y_1,y_2,\ldots,y_m$ are independent and the distribution of each $y_i$ is a $d$-dimensional complex Gaussian with mean $0$ and covariance $\Gamma_i$, that is $y_i \sim \mathcal{...
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Limiting value of Stieltjes transform of sum of independent Wishart matrices
Let $n_1$, $n_2$, and $d$ positive integers tending to infinity such that $d/n_k \to \phi_k \in (0,\infty)$ and $n_1/(n_1+n_2) \to p \in (0,1)$. Let $X_k$ be an $n_k \times d$ random matrix with iid ...
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Limiting value of trace of resolvent matrix involving two independent Wishart random matrices
Let $n_1$, $n_2$, and $d$ be positive integers tending to infinity such that
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d/n_k \to \phi_k \in (0,\infty).
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Let $X_1 \in \mathbb R^{n_1 \times d}$ and $X_2^{n_2 \times d}$ be independent ...
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Joint moments like $\tau(XYXYXY)$ in terms of individual moments of free variables $X,Y$
Terry Tao RMT book has the following formula for joint moment of freely independent random variables $X,Y$ in Section 2.5
$$\tau(XYXY)=\tau(X)^2\tau(Y^2)+\tau(X^2)\tau(Y)^2-\tau(X)^2\tau(Y)^2$$
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Limiting value of $\dfrac{1}{m}\mathrm{tr}(FAF^\top (FBF^\top)^{-1})$, where $F$ has iide $N(0,1)$ entries and $A,B$ are deterministic
Let $F=F_{m,d}$ be a random $m \times d$ matrix with iid entries from $N(0,1)$. Let $A=A_d$ and $B=B_d$ be deterministic $d \times d$ positive-definite matrices. In case it helps, it may be assumed ...
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Limiting value of expectation of $\operatorname{tr}(BR(z))$, where $R(z) := (X^\top X - z I_d)^{-1}$ and $X \sim N_{n,d}(0,A)$
Let $A=A(d)$, and $B=B(d)$ be (sequences of) deterministic positive-definite $d \times d$ matrices and let $X$ be an $n \times d$ random matrix with iid rows from $N(0,A)$. Let $R$ be the resolvent of ...
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Limiting value of expectation of trace of exponential of Wishart matrix
Let $X$ be an $n \times d$ random matrix with iid entries from $N(0, 1/d)$. Let $S:=X^\top X/n$, a $d \times d$ Wishart matrix and let $T = e^{S} := \sum_{k=0}^\infty \dfrac{S^k}{k!}$ be its ...
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Explaning why the spectrum of a setting simple structure random matrix is always spiked ($d-1$ eigenvalues close to zero, and $1$ away from zero)
For concreteness, let $m=500$, $d=600$, $N=1000$. Let $W$ be and $d \times m$ matrix with unit-norm rows and let $u$ be a uni-norm vector of length $m$. Given a binary vector $b$ of length $m$, length ...
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Spectrally-weighted Stieltjes transform of random matrix $Z=XX^\top$ in terms of Stieltjes transform of $Z$ and the weighting function
Let $n$ and $d$ positive integers going to infinity such that $d/n \to \gamma \in (0,\infty)$. Let $X$ be a random $n \times d$ iid rows from $N(0,\Sigma)$, where $\Sigma = diag(\lambda_1,\ldots,\...
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Limiting value of $\dfrac{1_n^\top B^{-1} A B^{-1} 1_n}{d}$, where $A=WW^\top + a I_n$, $B = WW^\top + b I_n$, and $W \sim N(0,\Sigma_d)$
Let $n$ and $d$ be positive integers with
$$
n,d \to \infty, \quad n/d \to \rho \in (0,\infty).
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Let $\Sigma_d$ be a psd matrix such that
$\mbox{trace}(\Sigma_d) = 1$.
$\|\Sigma_d\|_{op} = \mathcal ...
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Probabilistic lower and upper-bounds for a certain random quartic form involving gaussian random matrices
Let $d,m \to \infty$ (integers) with $m/d \to \rho \in (0, \infty)$. Let $C$ be a $d \times d$ psd matrix with $trace(C)=\mathcal O(1)$, and let $w_1,\ldots,w_m$ be iid uniformly distributed on the ...
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Asymptotic lower and upper bounds for the eigenvalues of hadamard product $W \circ W$, where $W$ is a large Wishart matrix
Let $n$ and $d$ be large positive integers with $n,d \to \infty$ such that $n/d \to \gamma \in (0,\infty)$. Let $X$ be a random $n \times d$ random matrix with iid copies of log-concave isotropic ...
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Why a random variable is better described by its cumulants than by its characteristic function?
It is a classical and well known problem that a random variable $X$ is not uniquely determined by its moments $\mathbb{E}(X_n)$. The moment problem is the problem of determining the probability ...
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Bounds for the extreme singular-values of random matrix with thresholded entries
Let $n,d,k$ be large positive integers such that $\max(n/d,k/d) =: \lambda < 1$. Let $X$ be a random $n \times d$ matrix with entries drawn iid from $N(0,1/d)$ and let $W$ be a $k \times d$ random ...