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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

Let $\eta_i, i=1,..., n$ be iid Bernoulli random variables. Given a multiset $\bv$ of $n$ numbers $v_1, ..., v_n$, the \emph{concentration probability} $\P_1(\bv)$ of $\bv$ is defined as $\P_1(\bv) := \sup_{x} \P(v_1 \eta_1+ ... v_n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-10-20 Terence Tao , Van Vu

Consider the sum $X(\xi)=\sum_{i=1}^n a_i\xi_i$, where $a=(a_i)_{i=1}^n$ is a sequence of non-zero reals and $\xi=(\xi_i)_{i=1}^n$ is a sequence of i.i.d. Rademacher random variables (that is, $\Pr[\xi_i=1]=\Pr[\xi_i=-1]=1/2$). The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Afonso S. Bandeira , Asaf Ferber , Matthew Kwan

We prove anti-concentration results for polynomials of independent random variables with arbitrary degree. Our results extend the classical Littlewood-Offord result for linear polynomials, and improve several earlier estimates. We discuss…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Raghu Meka , Oanh Nguyen , Van Vu

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 present an extension of the famous Littlewood-Offord problem when Bernoulli distributions are replaced with discrete log-concave distributions. A variant of the Littlewood-Offord problem for arithmetic progressions, as well as an…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Arnaud Marsiglietti , James Melbourne

We derive concentration inequalities for sums of independent and identically distributed random variables that yield non-asymptotic generalizations of several strong laws of large numbers including some of those due to Kolmogorov [1930],…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Johannes Ruf , Ian Waudby-Smith

This paper studies the asymptotic properties of weighted sums of the form $Z_n=\sum_{i=1}^n a_i X_i$, in which $X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_n$ are i.i.d.~random variables and $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$ correspond to either eigenvalues or singular…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Angel Chavez , Jacob Waldor

Via operator theoretic methods, we formalize the concentration phenomenon for a given observable `$r$' of a discrete time Markov chain with `$\mu_{\pi}$' as invariant ergodic measure, possibly having support on an unbounded state space. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Muhammad Abdullah Naeem , Miroslav Pajic

Concentration inequalities are fundamental tools in probabilistic combinatorics and theoretical computer science for proving that random functions are near their means. Of particular importance is the case where f(X) is a function of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Lutz Warnke

We study concentration inequalities for structured weighted sums of random data, including (i) tensor inner products and (ii) sequential matrix sums. We are interested in tail bounds and concentration inequalities for those structured…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Chen Cheng , Rina Foygel Barber

For a random variable $X$ define $Q(X) = \sup_{x \in \mathbb{R}} \mathbb{P}(X=x)$. Let $X_1, \dots, X_n$ be independent integer random variables. Suppose $Q(X_i) \le \alpha_i \in (0,1]$ for each $i \in \{1, \dots, n\}$. Ju\v{s}kevi\v{c}ius…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Valentas Kurauskas

For each $n$, let $U_n$ be Haar distributed on the group of $n\times n$ unitary matrices. Let $\bfx_{n,1},\ldots,\bfx_{n,m} $ denote orthogonal nonrandom unit vectors in ${\Bbb C}^n$ and let $\text{\bf…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Jack W. Silverstein

We show how to extend several basic concentration inequalities for simple random tensors $X = x_1 \otimes \cdots \otimes x_d$ where all $x_k$ are independent random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with independent coefficients. The new results…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Roman Vershynin

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

In this work we present concentration inequalities for the sum $S_n$ of independent integer-valued not necessary indentically distributed random variables, where each variable has tail function that can be bounded by some power function…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Oleksii Omelchenko , Andrei A. Bulatov

Given a star-shaped domain $K\subseteq \mathbb R^d$, $n$ vectors $v_1,\dots,v_n \in \mathbb R^d$, a number $R>0$, and i.i.d. random variables $\eta_1,\dots,\eta_n$, we study the geometric and arithmetic structure of the set of vectors $V =…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Omer Friedland , Ohad Giladi , Olivier Guédon

We investigate the local distribution of roots of random functions of the form $F_n(z)= \sum_{i=1}^n \xi_i \phi_i(z) $, where $\xi_i$ are independent random variables and $\phi_i (z) $ are arbitrary analytic functions. Starting with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Oanh Nguyen , Van Vu

A sharp, distribution free, non-asymptotic result is proved for the concentration of a random function around the mean function, when the randomization is generated by a finite sequence of independent data and the random functions satisfy…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Thomas Anton , Sutanuka Roy , Rabee Tourky

We compare three approaches to studying the behavior of an analytic function $f(z)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty a_kz^k$ from its Taylor coefficients. The first is "Taylor domination" property for $f(z)$ in the complex disk $D_R$, which is an…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Dmitry Batenkov , Yosef Yomdin