Asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of large rank perturbations of large random matrices

The paper is concerned with deformed Wigner random matrices. These matrices are closely connected with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs): weight matrices of trained DNNs could be represented in the form $R + S$, where R is random and S is highly correlated. The spectrum of such matrices plays a key role in rigorous underpinning of the novel pruning technique based on Random Matrix Theory. Mathematics has been done only for finite-rank matrix S. However, in practice rank may grow. In this paper we develop asymptotic analysis for the case of growing rank.