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What kind of random matrices have rapidly decaying singular values?

I've been told that in machine learning it's common to compute the singular value decomposition of matrices in order to throw out all information in the matrix except that corresponding to, say, the $...
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Spectrum asymptotics for a product of $k$ random matrices?

How does the spectrum of a product of $k$ random matrices behave around 0? In particular, I'm wondering if the CDF of squared singular values behaves as $x^{\frac{1}{k+1}}$ around 0. The result for $k=...
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How to get the lower bound of the following $\tau$?

Let $A=\{a_{ij}\}_{1\le i,j\le n}$ be an $n$ by $n$ normalized Gaussian random matrix with $E[a_{ij}]=0$ and $E[a_{ij}^2]=1/n$. Ordering its eigenvalues by $\lambda_1\le \lambda_2\le \cdots \lambda_n$ ...
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Expectation of the trace of inverse of a Gaussian random matrix

Given a $N×M$ random complex gaussian matrix $X$ and $N×K$ random complex gaussian matrix $Y$ I'm interested in approximating the expectation expressed as: \begin{align} E[trace({(aX{X^H} + I)^{ - ...
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Expected norms of Wishart matrices

Suppose $x_i \stackrel{\text{i.i.d}}{\sim} \mathcal{N}(\mu,\Sigma)$. What can we say about dependence on $b$ of Frobenius/spectral norm quantities below? $$f(b)=\left\|\frac{1}{b}\sum_{i=1}^b x_i x_i^...
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How fast can extreme eigenvalues of the average of random matrices converge to their expectation?

Suppose that $X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_m$ are independent $d\times d$ random matrices and let $\overline{X} := \frac{1}{m}\sum_{i=1}^m X_i$. One of the questions studied under the theory of random matrices is ...
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Dimension-free sample complexity for estimating Gaussian covariance

(also asked on math.se, with no answers) Suppose I have $m$ samples drawn from a Gaussian in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and need sample covariance $\Sigma_m$ to be $\epsilon$-close to true covariance $\Sigma$: $$...
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Expected operator norm of inverse Wishart matrix

Let $ W\sim W_p(n,I)$ be a white $p\times p$ Wishart matrix, and assume $n>p+1$, which ensures that $W$ is invertible almost surely. Let $\|W^{-1}\|_{\text{op}}$ be the operator norm (maximum ...
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Asymptotic results for smallest gap of Gaussian random matrix

For a symmetric Gaussian random matrix $G=\{G\}_{1\le i,j \le n}$ with iid $E[G_{ij}]=0$ and $E[G_{ij}^2]=1/n$ (it is normalized), ordering its eigenvalues $\lambda_1\le \lambda_2\le\cdots \lambda_n$. ...
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Distribution of the Gram matrix

Let $\mathbf{X}$ be an $m\times k$ random matrix ($m>k$) of rank $k$, having the density function $f_\mathbf{X}(X)$. What is the distribution of $\mathbf{Y}=\mathbf{XX}^T$? Basically my question is ...
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Upper-bound for spectral norm of the covariance matrix of a certain Gaussian vector with correlated entries

Let $n$ and $m$ be large positive integers. Let $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$ be a vector of independent random variables from $N(0,1)$. It is clear that the covariance matrix of $x$ is $I_n$, the identity ...
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Approximate the singular values of a certain random dot-product kernel matrix (in the sense of El Karoui, Cheng-Singer, etc.)

Let $g:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R $ be a continuous function which is "sufficiently smooth" (e.g $\mathcal C^3$) around $0$, and "sufficiently integrable" (e.g integrable w.r.t $N(0,...
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