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We prove extensions of classical concentration inequalities for random variables which have $\alpha$-subexponential tail decay for any $\alpha \in (0,2]$. This includes Hanson--Wright type and convex concentration inequalities. We also…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Holger Sambale

We present precise multilevel exponential concentration inequalities for polynomials in Ising models satisfying the Dobrushin condition. The estimates have the same form as two-sided tail estimates for polynomials in Gaussian variables due…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Radosław Adamczak , Michał Kotowski , Bartłomiej Polaczyk , Michał Strzelecki

In this expository note, we give a modern proof of Hanson-Wright inequality for quadratic forms in sub-gaussian random variables. We deduce a useful concentration inequality for sub-gaussian random vectors. Two examples are given to…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Mark Rudelson , Roman Vershynin

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

In this work we design a general method for proving moment inequalities for polynomials of independent random variables. Our method works for a wide range of random variables including Gaussian, Boolean, exponential, Poisson and many…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Warren Schudy , Maxim Sviridenko

In this paper we prove multilevel concentration inequalities for bounded functionals $f = f(X_1, \ldots, X_n)$ of random variables $X_1, \ldots, X_n$ that are either independent or satisfy certain logarithmic Sobolev inequalities. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Friedrich Götze , Holger Sambale , Arthur Sinulis

The Hanson-Wright inequality establishes exponential concentration for quadratic forms $X^T M X$, where $X$ is a vector with independent sub-Gaussian entries and with parameters depending on the Frobenius and operator norms of $M$. The most…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ingvar Ziemann

We extend the theory of concentration inequalities to simple random tensors with heavy-tailed coefficients. Specifically, we consider the class of sub-Weibull distributions $\mathcal{S}_\alpha$ for $\alpha \in [1, 2]$. We establish…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-11 Yunfan Zhao

In this paper, we provide a proof for the Hanson-Wright inequalities for sparsified quadratic forms in subgaussian random variables. This provides useful concentration inequalities for sparse subgaussian random vectors in two ways. Let $X =…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Shuheng Zhou

Building on the inequalities for homogeneous tetrahedral polynomials in independent Gaussian variables due to R. Lata{\l}a we provide a concentration inequality for non-necessarily Lipschitz functions $f\colon \R^n \to \R$ with bounded…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Radosław Adamczak , Paweł Wolff

This paper is devoted to uniform versions of the Hanson-Wright inequality for a random vector with independent centered $\alpha$-subexponential entries, $0<\alpha\le 1$. Our method relies upon a novel decoupling inequality and a comparison…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Guozheng Dai , Zhonggen Su

This paper gives a review of concentration inequalities which are widely employed in non-asymptotical analyses of mathematical statistics in a wide range of settings, from distribution-free to distribution-dependent, from sub-Gaussian to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Huiming Zhang , Song Xi Chen

We establish sparse Hanson-Wright inequalities for quadratic forms of sparse $\alpha$-sub-exponential random vectors with exponent parameter $\alpha\in(0, 2]$. In the regime $0< \alpha\le 1$ we derive a refined inequality that is optimal in…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Guozheng Dai , Yiyun He , Ke Wang , Yizhe Zhu

For a wide class of monotonic functions $f$, we develop a Chernoff-style concentration inequality for quadratic forms $Q_f \sim \sum\limits_{i=1}^n f(\eta_i) (Z_i + \delta_i)^2$, where $Z_i \sim N(0,1)$. The inequality is expressed in terms…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Robert E. Gallagher , Louis J. M. Aslett , David Steinsaltz , Ryan R. Christ

We derive new Hanson-Wright-type inequalities tailored to the quadratic forms of random vectors with sparse independent components. Specifically, we consider cases where the components of the random vector are sparse $\alpha$-subexponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yiyun He , Ke Wang , Yizhe Zhu

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

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

We present a concentration inequality for linear functionals of noncommutative polynomials in random matrices. Our hypotheses cover most standard ensembles, including Gaussian matrices, matrices with independent uniformly bounded entries…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-04 Mark W. Meckes , Stanislaw J. Szarek

We prove that quadratic forms in isotropic random vectors $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, possessing the convex concentration property with constant $K$, satisfy the Hanson-Wright inequality with constant $CK$, where $C$ is an absolute constant,…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Radosław Adamczak

A concentration result for quadratic form of independent subgaussian random variables is derived. If the moments of the random variables satisfy a "Bernstein condition", then the variance term of the Hanson-Wright inequality can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Pierre C Bellec
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