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In this work we derive multi-level concentration inequalities for polynomial functions in independent random variables with a $\alpha$-sub-exponential tail decay. A particularly interesting case is given by quadratic forms $f(X_1, \ldots,…

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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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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 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 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

This paper is devoted to uniform versions of the Hanson-Wright inequality for a random vector $X \in \mathbb{R}^n$ with independent subgaussian components. The core technique of the paper is based on the entropy method combined with…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Yegor Klochkov , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

The Hanson-Wright inequality is an upper bound for tails of real quadratic forms in independent random variables. In this work, we extend the Hanson-Wright inequality for the Ky Fan k-norm for the polynomial function of the quadratic sum of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Shih Yu Chang

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

We provide moment bounds for expressions of the type $(X^{(1)} \otimes \dots \otimes X^{(d)})^T A (X^{(1)} \otimes \dots \otimes X^{(d)})$ where $\otimes$ denotes the Kronecker product and $X^{(1)}, \dots, X^{(d)}$ are random vectors with…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Stefan Bamberger , Felix Krahmer , Rachel Ward

We show an extension of Sanov's theorem on large deviations, controlling the tail probabilities of i.i.d. random variables with matching concentration and anti-concentration bounds. This result has a general scope, applies to samples of any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Akshay Balsubramani

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 prove an exponential decay concentration inequality to bound the tail probability of the difference between the log-likelihood of discrete random variables on a finite alphabet and the negative entropy. The concentration bound we derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Yunpeng Zhao

Random matrices acting on structured sets play a fundamental role in high-dimensional geometry, compressed sensing, and randomized algorithms. Existing results primarily focus on subgaussian models, when random matrices act as…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Tiankun Diao , Xuanang Hu , Vladimir V. Ulyanov , Hanchao Wang

We derive simple concentration inequalities for bounded random vectors, which generalize Hoeffding's inequalities for bounded scalar random variables. As applications, we apply the general results to multinomial and Dirichlet distributions…

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