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We give Hoeffding and Bernstein-type concentration inequalities for the largest eigenvalue of sums of random matrices arising from a Markov chain. We consider time-dependent matrix-valued functions on a general state space, generalizing…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Joe Neeman , Bobby Shi , Rachel Ward

A generalization of the Bernstein matrix concentration inequality to random tensors of general order is proposed. This generalization is based on the use of Einstein products between tensors, from which a strong link can be established…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Z. Luo , L. Qi , Ph. L. Toint

This paper derives exponential concentration inequalities and polynomial moment inequalities for the spectral norm of a random matrix. The analysis requires a matrix extension of the scalar concentration theory developed by Sourav…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Lester Mackey , Michael I. Jordan , Richard Y. Chen , Brendan Farrell , Joel A. Tropp

We establish an Azuma type inequality under a Lipshitz condition for martingales in the framework of noncommutative probability spaces and apply it to deduce a noncommutative Heoffding inequality as well as a noncommutative McDiarmid type…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Ghadir Sadeghi , Mohammad Sal Moslehian

We present some extensions of Bernstein's concentration inequality for random matrices. This inequality has become a useful and powerful tool for many problems in statistics, signal processing and theoretical computer science. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Stanislav Minsker

The matrix Markov inequality by Ahlswede was stated using the Loewner anti-order between positive definite matrices. Wang use this to derive several other Chebyshev and Chernoff-type inequalities (Hoeffding, Bernstein, empirical Bernstein)…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Reihaneh Malekian , Aaditya Ramdas

We prove a sharp Lieb-Thirring type inequality for Jacobi matrices, thereby settling a conjecture of Hundertmark and Simon. An interesting feature of the proof is that it employs a technique originally used by Hundertmark-Laptev-Weidl…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Ari Laptev , Michael Loss , Lukas Schimmer

We revisit the method of mixture technique, also known as the Laplace method, to study the concentration phenomenon in generic exponential families. Combining the properties of Bregman divergence associated with log-partition function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Patrick Saux , Odalric-Ambrym Maillard , Aditya Gopalan

Bernstein's inequality is a central result in the theory of $D$-modules on smooth varieties. While Bernstein's inequality fails for rings of differential operators on general singularities, recent work of \`{A}lvarez Montaner, Hern\'andez,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Jack Jeffries , David Lieberman

Recently, sharp matrix concentration inequalities~\cite{BBvH23,BvH24} were developed using the theory of free probability. In this work, we design polynomial time deterministic algorithms to construct outcomes that satisfy the guarantees of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Robert Wang , Lap Chi Lau , Hong Zhou

In this article we prove martingale type pointwise convergence theorems pertaining to tensor product splines defined on $d$-dimensional Euclidean space ($d$ is a positive integer), where conditional expectations are replaced by their…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Markus Passenbrunner

We investigate concentration properties of functions of random vectors with values in the discrete cube, satisfying the stochastic covering property (SCP) or the strong Rayleigh property (SRP). Our result for SCP measures include…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Radosław Adamczak , Bartłomiej Polaczyk

We present a unified approach to Doob's $L^p$ maximal inequalities for $1\leq p<\infty$. The novelty of our method is that these martingale inequalities are obtained as consequences of elementary deterministic counterparts. The latter have…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-22 B. Acciaio , M. Beiglböck , F. Penkner , W. Schachermayer , J. Temme

We prove the Martingale Convergence Theorem by using the work of L. Dubins and I. Monroe about embedding a given discrete-time martingale in the sample paths of a Brownian motion.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-20 P. J. Fitzsimmons

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

The martingale method is used to establish concentration inequalities for a class of dependent random sequences on a countable state space, with the constants in the inequalities expressed in terms of certain mixing coefficients. Along the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Leonid , Kontorovich , Kavita Ramanan

Higher order Bernstein- and Markov-type inequalities are established for trigonometric polynomials on compact subsets of the real line and algebraic polynomials on compact subsets of the unit circle. In the case of Markov-type inequalities…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Sergei Kalmykov , Béla Nagy

For self-normalized martingales with conditionally symmetric differences, de la Pe\~{n}a [A general class of exponential inequalities for martingales and ratios. Ann. Probab. 27, No.1, 537-564] established the Gaussian type exponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Xiequan Fan , Shen Wang

This work shows how exponential concentration inequalities for additive functionals of stochastic processes over a finite time interval can be derived from concentration inequalities for martingales. The approach is entirely probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Bob Pepin

We prove a Bernstein inequality for vector-valued self-normalized martingales. We first give an alternative perspective of the corresponding sub-Gaussian bound due to Abbasi-Yadkori et al. via a PAC-Bayesian argument with Gaussian priors.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Ingvar Ziemann