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The approach is to fix a natural spectral scale by letting the model normalization run with size, turning raw spectra into comparable, collapsed density curves. We illustrate this construction on generalizations of two classic random matrix ensembles\u2014Wigner and Wishart\u2014equipped with rank-ordered power-law variance profiles. We use random matrix theory methods to derive self-consistent fixed-point equations\u00a0for the resolvent to compute their eigenvalue densities. We define an RG scheme based on index-space decimation and compute the Beta function controlling the RG flow as a function of the variance profile power-law exponent. The running normalization leads to spectral collapse which we confirm in simulations and solutions of the fixed-point equations. 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