We examine here some properties of a connectionist autoassociative matrix for storing, in a parallel and distributed fashion, face stimuli that are coded as simple patterns of spatially varying light intensities. First, we find that the opposition of positive and negative point contributions for nearly all the eigenvectors forms head/hair shapes, often containing the positions and shapes of eye...

Computing the leading eigenvector of a symmetric real matrix is a fundamental primitive of numerical linear algebra with numerous applications. We consider a natural online extension of the leading eigenvector problem: a sequence of matrices is presented and the goal is to predict for each matrix a unit vector, with the overall goal of competing with the leading eigenvector of the cumulative ma...

In this paper, we study the simple eigenvectors of two hypomorphic matrices using linear algebra. We also give new proofs of results of Godsil and McKay.

A restarted nonsymmetric Lanczos algorithm is given for computing eigenvalus and both right and left eigenvectors. The restarting limits the storage so that finding eigenvectors is practical. Restarting also makes it possible to deal with roundoff error in new ways. We give a scheme for avoiding near-breakdown and discuss maintaining biorthogonality. A system of linear equations can be solved s...

We study the problem of estimating the leading eigenvectors of a highdimensional population covariance matrix based on independent Gaussian observations. We establish a lower bound on the minimax risk of estimators under the l2 loss, in the joint limit as dimension and sample size increase to infinity, under various models of sparsity for the population eigenvectors. The lower bound on the risk...

We study the problem of estimating the leading eigenvectors of a high-dimensional population covariance matrix based on independent Gaussian observations. We establish a lower bound on the minimax risk of estimators under the l2 loss, in the joint limit as dimension and sample size increase to infinity, under various models of sparsity for the population eigenvectors. The lower bound on the ris...

Most existing flow visualization techniques focus on the analysis and visualization of the vector field that describes the flow. In this paper, we employ a rather different approach by performing tensor field analysis and visualization on the gradient of the vector field, which can provide additional and complementary information to the direct analysis of the vector field. Our techniques focus ...

We focus in this work on the estimation of the first k eigenvectors of any graph Laplacian using filtering of Gaussian random signals. We prove that we only need k such signals to be able to exactly recover as many of the smallest eigenvectors, regardless of the number of nodes in the graph. In addition, we address key issues in implementing the theoretical concepts in practice using accurate a...

We study the problem of estimating the leading eigenvectors of a high-dimensional population covariance matrix based on independent Gaussian observations. We establish a lower bound on the minimax risk of estimators under the l2 loss, in the joint limit as dimension and sample size increase to infinity, under various models of sparsity for the population eigenvectors. The lower bound on the ris...

A deflated and restarted Lanczos algorithm to solve hermitian linear systems, and at the same time compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors for application to multiple right-hand sides, is described. For the first right-hand side, eigenvectors with small eigenvalues are computed while simultaneously solving the linear system. Two versions of this algorithm are given. The first is called Lan-DR and ...