English
Related papers

Related papers: Tight Bounds for Jensen's Gap with Applications to…

200 papers

In this paper we complete our understanding of the role played by the limiting (or residue) function in the context of mod-Gaussian convergence. The question about the probabilistic interpretation of such functions was initially raised by…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Pierre-Loïc Méliot , Ashkan Nikeghbali

Some sharp inequalities of Gruss type for sequences of vectors in real or complex inner product spaces are obtained. Applications for Jensen's inequality for convex functions defined on such spaces are also provided.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sever Silvestru Dragomir

Error bounds are central objects in optimization theory and its applications. They were for a long time restricted only to the theory before becoming over the course of time a field of itself. This paper is devoted to the study of error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Zhou Wei , Michel Théra , Jen-Chih Yao

We give a Jensen operator inequality for strongly convex functions. As a corollary, we improve operator Holder-McCarthy inequality under suitable conditions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-07 H. R. Moradi , R. Naseri

In this article, we further explore convex functions by revealing new bounds, resulting from stronger convexity behavior. In particular, we define the so called radical convex functions and study their properties. We will see that such…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Mohammad Sababheh , Hamid Reza Moradi

We give a distribution-dependent concentration inequality for functions of independent variables. The result extends Bernstein's inequality from sums to more general functions, whose variation in any argument does not depend too much on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Andreas Maurer

We study a tight Bennett-type concentration inequality for sums of heterogeneous and independent variables, defined as a one-dimensional minimization. We show that this refinement, which outperforms the standard known bounds, remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Quentin Jacquet , Riadh Zorgati

As shown in recent research, deep neural networks can perfectly fit randomly labeled data, but with very poor accuracy on held out data. This phenomenon indicates that loss functions such as cross-entropy are not a reliable indicator of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Yiding Jiang , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Samy Bengio

We generalize McDiarmid's inequality for functions with bounded differences on a high probability set, using an extension argument. Those functions concentrate around their conditional expectations. We further extend the results to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Richard Combes

Group max-min fairness (MMF) is commonly used in fairness-aware recommender systems (RS) as an optimization objective, as it aims to protect marginalized item groups and ensures a fair competition platform. However, our theoretical analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chen Xu , Yuxin Li , Wenjie Wang , Liang Pang , Jun Xu , Tat-Seng Chua

A new inequality between some functional of probability distribution functions is given. The inequality is based on strict convexity of a function used in functional definition. Equality sign in the inequality gives a characteristic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-18 Lev B. Klebanov , Irina V. Volchenkova

We introduce a modified version of the excess risk, which can be used to obtain tighter, fast-rate PAC-Bayesian generalisation bounds. This modified excess risk leverages information about the relative hardness of data examples to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Felix Biggs , Benjamin Guedj

Understanding generalization in deep neural networks is an active area of research. A promising avenue of exploration has been that of margin measurements: the shortest distance to the decision boundary for a given sample or its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Coenraad Mouton , Marthinus W. Theunissen , Marelie H. Davel

The aim of the paper is to show that the solutions to variational problems with non-standard growth conditions satisfy a corresponding variational inequality without any smallness assumptions on the gap between growth and coercitivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Michela Eleuteri , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

We consider the Bayesian analysis of models in which the unknown distribution of the outcomes is specified up to a set of conditional moment restrictions. The nonparametric exponentially tilted empirical likelihood function is constructed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Siddhartha Chib , Minchul Shin , Anna Simoni

The aim of this paper is to present some new Fejer-type results for convex functions. Improvements of Young's inequality (the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality) and other applications to special means are pointed as well.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-03-22 N. Minculete , F. -C. Mitroi

The Jeffreys-Lindley paradox stands as the most profound divergence between frequentist and Bayesian approaches to hypothesis testing. Yet despite more than six decades of discussion, this paradox remains frequently misunderstood--even in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Miodrag M. Lovric

Change-plane regression identifies subpopulations through an interpretable linear threshold rule, but likelihood-based inference for the hard-threshold boundary is nonregular: objectives are non-smooth, the boundary is weakly identified…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-28 Yuki Ohnishi , Fan Li

We study the convergence of a family of numerical integration methods where the numerical integral is formulated as a finite matrix approximation to a multiplication operator. For bounded functions, the convergence has already been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Juha Sarmavuori , Simo Särkkä

We analyze a simple randomized subgradient method for approximating solutions to stochastic systems of convex functional constraints, the only input to the algorithm being the size of minibatches. By introducing a new notion of what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 James Renegar , Song Zhou