Smoothed-analysis conjecture on random perturbations and condition numbers
Smoothed-analysis conjecture on random perturbations and condition numbers
Let be an arbitrary matrix, and let be a random matrix. For an invertible matrix , define its condition number by
and set when is not invertible. Call well-conditioned when for some constant independent of . Random-perturbation condition-number conjecture. With high probability, is well-conditioned. This intuition motivates smoothed analysis, though the source notes that well-conditioning alone need not account for every algorithmic difficulty. The source also says that rigorous versions of this intuition were used in the cited analysis; the precise perturbation distribution and meaning of “with high probability” are not specified in the conjectural statement.
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Terence Tao and Van Vu, “From the Littlewood-Offord problem to the Circular Law: universality of the spectral distribution of random matrices”, arXiv:0810.2994 (2009).
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