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The concentration of a distribution toward a lower bound is a conceptually simple property that closely relates to concepts of rarity and poverty, but that lacks a global descriptive statistic. We term this property 'shift' and define it as…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-16 Kenneth J. Locey , Brian D. Stein

We discuss a natural extension of Gilles Pisier's approach to the study of measure concentration, isoperimetry and Poincar\'e-type inequalities. This approach allows one to explore counterparts of various results about Gaussian measure in…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Sergey G. Bobkov , Bruno Volzone

Let $(X,d)$ be a compact metric space and $\mu$ a Borel probability on $X$. For each $N\geq 1$ let $d^N_\infty$ be the $\ell_\infty$-product on $X^N$ of copies of $d$, and consider $1$-Lipschitz functions $X^N\to\mathbb{R}$ for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Tim Austin

We prove the optimal rate of quantitative propagation of chaos, uniformly in time, for interacting diffusions. Our main examples are interactions governed by convex potentials and models on the torus with small interactions. We show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Daniel Lacker , Luc Le Flem

Stein's method for concentration inequalities was introduced to prove concentration of measure in problems involving complex dependencies such as random permutations and Gibbs measures. In this paper, we provide some extensions of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Sourav Chatterjee , Partha S. Dey

Let $M$ be a $d$-dimensional connected compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $\partial M$, let $V\in C^2(M)$ such that $\mu(dx):=e^{V(x)} d x$ is a probability measure, and let $X_t$ be the diffusion process generated by…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Feng-Yu Wang

Let $\lambda$ be a probability measure on $\mathbb T^{n-1}$ where $n=2$ or 3. Suppose $\lambda$ is invariant, ergodic and has positive entropy with respect to the linear transformation defined by a hyperbolic matrix. We get a measure $\mu $…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Ronggang Shi

We prove several different anti-concentration inequalities for functions of independent Bernoulli-distributed random variables. First, motivated by a conjecture of Alon, Hefetz, Krivelevich and Tyomkyn, we prove some "Poisson-type"…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jacob Fox , Matthew Kwan , Lisa Sauermann

A Banach space has the Schur property when every weakly convergent sequence converges in norm. We prove a Schur-like property for measures: if a sequence of finite signed Borel measures on a Polish space is such that it is bounded in total…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Sander C. Hille , Tomasz Szarek , Daniel T. H. Worm , Maria Ziemlanska

From the observation of a diffusion path $(X_t)_{t\in [0,T]}$ on a compact connected $d$-dimensional manifold $\mathcal{M}$ without boundary, we consider the problem of estimating the stationary measure $\mu$ of the process. Wang and Zhu…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Vincent Divol , Hélène Guérin , Dinh-Toan Nguyen , Viet Chi Tran

A common way to discretize a probability measure is to use an empirical measure as a discrete approximation. But how far from being optimal is this approximation in the p-Wasserstein distance? In this paper, we study this question in two…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-05 March T. Boedihardjo

Given a compactly supported probability measure on a Riemannian manifold, we study the asymptotic speed at which it can be approximated (in Wasserstein distance of any exponent p) by finitely supported measure. This question has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Benoit Kloeckner

Given some observable H of a finite-dimensional quantum system, we investigate the typical properties of random quantum state vectors that have a fixed expectation value with respect to H. Under some some conditions on the spectrum, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 Markus Mueller , David Gross , Jens Eisert

The work of Sprungk (Inverse Problems, 2020) established the local Lipschitz continuity of the misfit-to-posterior and prior-to-posterior maps with respect to the Kullback--Leibler divergence and the total variation, Hellinger, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Nada Cvetković , Han Cheng Lie

We present a method to overapproximate forward stochastic reach sets of discrete-time, stochastic nonlinear systems with interval geometry. This is made possible by extending the theory of mixed-monotone systems to incorporate stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Rosalyn A. Devonport , Murat Arcak , Meeko M. K. Oishi

Let f be a non-invertible holomorphic endomorphism of the complex projective space P^k, f^n its iterate of order n and \mu the equilibrium measure of f. We estimate the speed of convergence in the following known result. If a is a Zariski…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-01-21 Tien-Cuong Dinh , Nessim Sibony

We investigate the minimal error in approximating a general probability measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ by the uniform measure on a finite set with prescribed cardinality $n$. The error is measured in the $p$-Wasserstein distance. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Filippo Quattrocchi

The phenomenon of entropy concentration provides strong support for the maximum entropy method, MaxEnt, for inferring a probability vector from information in the form of constraints. Here we extend this phenomenon, in a discrete setting,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Kostas N. Oikonomou

Under general assumptions on the target distribution $p^\star$, we establish a sharp Lipschitz regularity theory for flow-matching vector fields and diffusion-model scores, with optimal dependence on time and dimension. As applications, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Arthur Stéphanovitch

Diffusion models have excellent capacity to model complex distributions of natural data, which has made them a popular and effective choice for posterior sampling in imaging inverse problems. Existing methods can incorporate any measurement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Benjamin A. Burns , Sara Fridovich-Keil