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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,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Friedrich Götze , Holger Sambale , Arthur Sinulis

In this paper, we provide explicit lower bounds with respect to some quantities of interest (parameters of the underlying distribution, dimension, geometrical characteristics of the domain, position of the origin, etc.) on the spectral gap…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Michel Bonnefont , Aldéric Joulin

Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities are a powerful way to estimate the rate of convergence of Markov chains and to derive concentration inequalities on distributions. We prove that the log-Sobolev constant of any isotropic logconcave density…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Yin Tat Lee , Santosh S. Vempala

We study functional inequalities (Poincar\'e, Cheeger, log-Sobolev) for probability measures obtained as perturbations. Several explicit results for general measures as well as log-concave distributions are given.The initial goal of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Patrick Cattiaux , Arnaud Guillin

We prove concentration inequalities for general functions of weakly dependent random variables satisfying the Dobrushin condition. In particular, we show Talagrand's convex distance inequality for this type of dependence. We apply our…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Daniel Paulin

We are interested in Sobolev type inequalities and their relationship with concentration properties on higher dimensions. We consider unbounded spin systems on the d-dimensional lattice with interactions that increase slower than a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Ioannis Papageorgiou

We propose a sampling algorithm that achieves superior complexity bounds in all the classical settings (strongly log-concave, log-concave, Logarithmic-Sobolev inequality (LSI), Poincar\'e inequality) as well as more general settings with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Jiaojiao Fan , Bo Yuan , Yongxin Chen

We revisit the problem of sampling from a target distribution that has a smooth strongly log-concave density everywhere in $\mathbb R^p$. In this context, if no additional density information is available, the randomized midpoint…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Lu Yu , Avetik Karagulyan , Arnak Dalalyan

We study various generalizations of concentration of measure on the unit sphere, in particular by means of log-Sobolev inequalities. First, we show Sudakov-type concentration results and local semicircular laws for weighted random matrices.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Friedrich Götze , Holger Sambale

We derive spectral fluctuation--dissipation--response inequalities for finite-state Markov jump processes. By comparing the causal susceptibility to its passive equilibrium reference, we establish frequency-resolved and frequency-integrated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-23 Jie Gu

We present results of the numerical simulations and the scaling characteristics of one-dimensional random fluctuations with heavy tailed probability distribution functions. Assuming that the distribution function of the random fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-16 Mohsen Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi

Estimating the normalizing constant of an unnormalized probability distribution has important applications in computer science, statistical physics, machine learning, and statistics. In this work, we consider the problem of estimating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Rong Ge , Holden Lee , Jianfeng Lu

Our main contribution is a concentration inequality for the symmetric volume difference of a $ C^2 $ convex body with positive Gaussian curvature and a circumscribed random polytope with a restricted number of facets, for any probability…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Steven Hoehner , Gil Kur

We derive explicit bounds for the computation of normalizing constants $Z$ for log-concave densities $\pi = \exp(-U)/Z$ with respect to the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our approach relies on a Gaussian annealing combined with recent…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-01 Nicolas Brosse , Alain Durmus , Éric Moulines

Initially motivated by the study of the non-asymptotic properties of non-parametric tests based on permutation methods, concentration inequalities for uniformly permuted sums have been largely studied in the literature. Recently, Delyon et…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Mélisande Albert

In this note we derive a sharp concentration inequality for the supremum of a smooth random field over a finite dimensional set. It is shown that this supremum can be bounded with high probability by the value of the field at some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Denis Belomestny , Vladimir Spokoiny

In the context of mod-Gaussian convergence, as defined previously in our work with J. Jacod, we obtain lower bounds for local probabilities for a sequence of random vectors which are approximately Gaussian with increasing covariance. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 E. Kowalski , A. Nikeghbali

Following Talagrand's concentration results for permutations picked uniformly at random from a symmetric group [Tal95], Luczak and McDiarmid have generalized it to more general groups G of permutations which act suitably 'locally'. Here we…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Paul-Marie Samson

Motivated by the testing condition for Radon-Brascamp-Lieb multilinear functionals established in arXiv:2201.12201, this paper is concerned with identifying local conditions on smooth maps $u(t)$ with values in the space of decomposable…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Philip T. Gressman

We prove sharp anti-concentration results for log-concave random variables on the real line in both the discrete and continuous setting. Our approach is elementary and uses majorization techniques to recover and extend some recent and not…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Tulio Gaxiola , James Melbourne , Vincent Pigno , Emma Pollard