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Large Deviations of Vector-valued Martingales in 2-Smooth Normed Spaces

Probability 2023-01-31 v2 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We derive exponential bounds on probabilities of large deviations for "light tail" martingales taking values in finite-dimensional normed spaces. Our primary emphasis is on the case where the bounds are dimension-independent or nearly so. We demonstrate that this is the case when the norm on the space can be approximated, within an absolute constant factor, by a norm which is differentiable on the unit sphere with a Lipschitz continuous gradient. We also present various examples of spaces possessing the latter property.

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@article{arxiv.0809.0813,
  title  = {Large Deviations of Vector-valued Martingales in 2-Smooth Normed Spaces},
  author = {Anatoli Juditsky and Arkadii S. Nemirovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0813},
  year   = {2023}
}
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