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Hanson-Wright inequality provides a powerful tool for bounding the norm $|\xi|$ of a centered stochastic vector $\xi$ with sub-gaussian behavior. This paper extends the bounds to the case when $\xi$ only has bounded exponential moments of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Vladimir Spokoiny

In this paper, we prove the restricted isometry property of block diagonal random matrices with elements from $\varphi$-sub-Gaussian variables, which extends the previously known results for the sub-Gaussian case. A crucial ingredient of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Yiming Chen , Guozheng Dai , Kaiti Ding

We prove concentration inequalities for functions of independent random variables {under} sub-gaussian and sub-exponential conditions. The utility of the inequalities is demonstrated by an extension of the now classical method of Rademacher…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil

The Hanson-Wright inequality is an upper bound for tails of real quadratic forms in independent subgaussian random variables. In this work, we extend the Hanson-Wright inequality for the maximum eigenvalue of the quadratic sum of random…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Shih Yu Chang

Starting from concentration of measure hypotheses on $m$ random vectors $Z_1,\ldots, Z_m$, this article provides an expression of the concentration of functionals $\phi(Z_1,\ldots, Z_m)$ where the variations of $\phi$ on each variable…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Cosme Louart , Romain Couillet

We slightly modify the proof of Hanson-Wright inequality (HWI) for concentration of Gaussian quadratic chaos where we tighten the bound by increasing the absolute constant in its formulation from the largest known value of 0.125 to at least…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Kamyar Moshksar

We introduce a nonasymptotic framework for sub-Poisson distributions with moment generating function dominated by that of a Poisson distribution. At its core is a new notion of optimal sub-Poisson variance proxy, analogous to the variance…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Lasse Leskelä , Ian Välimaa

We revisit and slightly modify the proof of the Gaussian Hanson-Wright inequality where we keep track of the absolute constant in its formulation.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Kamyar Moshksar

Via a covariance representation based on characteristic functions, a known elementary proof of the Gaussian concentration inequality is presented. A few other applications are briefly mentioned.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Christian Houdré

We obtain a Bernstein type Gaussian concentration inequality for martingales. Our inequality improves the Azuma-Hoeffding inequality for moderate deviations $x$. Following the work of McDiarmid (1989), Talagrand (1996) and Boucheron, Lugosi…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Xiequan Fan

We derive novel concentration inequalities for the operator norm of the sum of self-adjoint operators that do not explicitly depend on the underlying dimension of the operator, but rather an intrinsic notion of it. Our analysis leads to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Diego Martinez-Taboada , Aaditya Ramdas

The sub-Gaussian stable distribution is a heavy-tailed elliptically contoured law which has interesting applications in signal processing and financial mathematics. This work addresses the problem of feasible estimation of distributions. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Taras Bodnar , Dmitry Otryakhin , Erik Thorsen

Slepian and Sudakov-Fernique type inequalities, which compare expectations of maxima of Gaussian random vectors under certain restrictions on the covariance matrices, play an important role in probability theory, especially in empirical…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Victor Chernozhukov , Denis Chetverikov , Kengo Kato

We present a concentration result concerning random weighted projections in high dimensional spaces. As applications, we prove (1) New concentration inequalities for random quadratic forms; (2) The infinity norm of most unit eigenvectors of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Van Vu , Ke Wang

Every sufficiently big matrix with small spectral norm has a nearby low-rank matrix if the distance is measured in the maximum norm (Udell & Townsend, SIAM J Math Data Sci, 2019). We use the Hanson--Wright inequality to improve the estimate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Stanislav Budzinskiy

We study distributions of random vectors whose components are second order polynomials in Gaussian random variables. Assuming that the law of such a vector is not absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure, we derive some…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Vladimir I. Bogachev , Egor D. Kosov , Ivan Nourdin , Guillaume Poly

We investigate the sub-Gaussian property for almost surely bounded random variables. If sub-Gaussianity per se is de facto ensured by the bounded support of said random variables, then exciting research avenues remain open. Among these…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Julyan Arbel , Olivier Marchal , Hien D. Nguyen

Li and Hu recently established variance-type O(1/n) bounds for the sample mean of independent random vectors under sublinear expectations. We extend their results to the exponential concentration regime. For bounded, independent R^d-valued…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Nahom Seyoum

In this short note we prove a maximal concentration lemma for sub-Gaussian random variables stating that for independent sub-Gaussian random variables we have \[P<(\max_{1\le i\le N}S_{i}>\epsilon>)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Dotan Di Castro , Claudio Gentile , Shie Mannor

We prove that an approximated version of the Brunn--Minkowski inequality with volume distortion coefficient implies a Gaussian concentration-of-measure phenomenon. Our main theorem is applicable to discrete spaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Masayoshi Watanabe