Spectral methods for data science: A statistical perspective

Y Chen, Y Chi, J Fan, C Ma - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Spectral methods have emerged as a simple yet surprisingly effective approach for
extracting information from massive, noisy and incomplete data. In a nutshell, spectral …

Geometric median and robust estimation in Banach spaces

S Minsker - 2015 - projecteuclid.org
In many real-world applications, collected data are contaminated by noise with heavy-tailed
distribution and might contain outliers of large magnitude. In this situation, it is necessary to …

Concentration inequalities and moment bounds for sample covariance operators

V Koltchinskii, K Lounici - Bernoulli, 2017 - JSTOR
Let X, X₁,..., Xn,... be iid centered Gaussian random variables in a separable Banach space
E with covariance operator∑:∑: E*↦ E,∑ u= E (X, u) X, u ϵ E*. The sample covariance …

Nonconvex low-rank tensor completion from noisy data

C Cai, G Li, HV Poor, Y Chen - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study a completion problem of broad practical interest: the reconstruction of a low-rank
symmetric tensor from highly incomplete and randomly corrupted observations of its entries …

Optimal estimation and rank detection for sparse spiked covariance matrices

T Cai, Z Ma, Y Wu - Probability theory and related fields, 2015 - Springer
This paper considers a sparse spiked covariance matrix model in the high-dimensional
setting and studies the minimax estimation of the covariance matrix and the principal …

Lasso guarantees for β-mixing heavy-tailed time series

KC Wong, Z Li, A Tewari - The Annals of Statistics, 2020 - JSTOR
Many theoretical results for lasso require the samples to be iid Recent work has provided
guarantees for lasso assuming that the time series is generated by a sparse Vector …

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, optimality, and applications

AR Zhang, TT Cai, Y Wu - The Annals of Statistics, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, optimality, and applications Page 1 The Annals of Statistics
2022, Vol. 50, No. 1, 53–80 https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AOS2074 © Institute of Mathematical …

Subspace estimation from unbalanced and incomplete data matrices: statistical guarantees

C Cai, G Li, Y Chi, HV Poor, Y Chen - 2021 - projecteuclid.org
Subspace estimation from unbalanced and incomplete data matrices: l2,infty statistical
guarantees Page 1 The Annals of Statistics 2021, Vol. 49, No. 2, 944–967 https://doi.org/10.1214/20-AOS1986 …

Petrels: Parallel subspace estimation and tracking by recursive least squares from partial observations

Y Chi, YC Eldar, R Calderbank - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many real world datasets exhibit an embedding of low-dimensional structure in a high-
dimensional manifold. Examples include images, videos and internet traffic data. It is of great …

Covariance estimation in high dimensions via Kronecker product expansions

T Tsiligkaridis, AO Hero - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new method for estimating high dimensional covariance matrices. The
method, permuted rank-penalized least-squares (PRLS), is based on a Kronecker product …