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This paper introduces a kernel discrepancy-based framework for rerandomization to enhance the precision of causal inference in controlled experiments. We demonstrate that the kernel discrepancy is the key part of the variance upper bound…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-05 Yiou Li , Lulu Kang

We introduce a concentration property for probability measures on $\scriptstyle{R^n}$, which we call Property~($\scriptstyle\tau$); we show that this property has an interesting stability under products and contractions (Lemmas 1,~2,~3).…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Bernard Maurey

We prove a version of Talagrand's concentration inequality for subordinated sub-Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold using tools from noncommutative geometry. As an application, motivated by quantum information theory, we show that on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Li Gao , Marius Junge , Nicolas LaRacuente

Matrix concentration inequalities, intimately connected to the Non-Commutative Khintchine inequality, have been an important tool in both applied and pure mathematics. We study tensor versions of these inequalities, and establish…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Afonso S. Bandeira , Sivakanth Gopi , Haotian Jiang , Kevin Lucca , Thomas Rothvoss

Chang's lemma is a useful tool in additive combinatorics and the analysis of Boolean functions. Here we give an elementary proof using entropy. The constant we obtain is tight, and we give a slight improvement in the case where the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Russell Impagliazzo , Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

For appropriate Gaussian processes, as a corollary of the majorizing measure theorem, Michel Talagrand (1987) proved that the event that the supremum is significantly larger than its expectation can be covered by a set of half-spaces whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Jinyoung Park , Huy Tuan Pham

We develop a new technique for proving concentration inequalities which relate between the variance and influences of Boolean functions. Using this technique, we 1. Settle a conjecture of Talagrand [Tal97] proving that $$\int_{\left\{…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Ronen Eldan , Renan Gross

Kernel techniques are among the most popular and flexible approaches in data science allowing to represent probability measures without loss of information under mild conditions. The resulting mapping called mean embedding gives rise to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-27 Linda Chamakh , Zoltan Szabo

We show that a restricted version of a conjecture of M. Talagrand on the relation between "expectation thresholds" and "fractional expectation thresholds" follows easily from a strong version of a second conjecture of Talagrand, on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Quentin Dubroff , Jeff Kahn , Jinyoung Park

We derive a consistency result, in the $L_1$-sense, for incomplete U-statistics in the non-standard case where the kernel at hand has infinite second-order moments. Assuming that the kernel has finite moments of order $p(\geq 1)$, we obtain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Alexander Dürre , Davy Paindaveine

We derive uniform concentration inequalities for continuous-time analogues of empirical processes and related stochastic integrals of scalar ergodic diffusion processes. Thereby, we lay the foundation typically required for the study of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Cathrine Aeckerle-Willems , Claudia Strauch

We prove an elementary yet useful inequality bounding the maximal value of certain linear programs. This leads directly to a bound on the martingale difference for arbitrarily dependent random variables, providing a generalization of some…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonid Kontorovich

We study concentration inequalities for the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence between the empirical distribution and the true distribution. Applying a recursion technique, we improve over the method of types bound uniformly in all regimes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jay Mardia , Jiantao Jiao , Ervin Tánczos , Robert D. Nowak , Tsachy Weissman

We examine an application of the kernel-based interpolation to numerical solutions for Zakai equations in nonlinear filtering, and aim to prove its rigorous convergence. To this end, we find the class of kernels and the structure of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Yumiharu Nakano

We characterize the symmetric measures which satisfy the one dimensional convex infimum convolution inequality of Maurey. For these measures the tensorization argument yields the two level Talagrand's concentration inequalities for their…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Naomi Feldheim , Arnaud Marsiglietti , Piotr Nayar , Jing Wang

We introduce and investigate a new notion of the theory of approximation-the so-called degenerate approximation, i.e. approximation of the function of two (and more) variables (kernel) by means of degenerate function (kernel). We apply…

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Quantum mechanics allows for coherent control over the order in which different processes take place on a target system, giving rise to a new feature known as indefinite causal order. Indefinite causal order provides a resource for quantum…

Current Lagrangian (particle-tracking) algorithms used to simulate diffusion-reaction equations must employ a certain number of particles to properly emulate the system dynamics---particularly for imperfectly-mixed systems. The number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Michael Schmidt , Stephen Pankavich , David Benson

Landauer's Principle relates entropy decrease and heat dissipation during logically irreversible processes. Most theoretical justifications of Landauer's Principle either use thermodynamic reasoning or rely on specific models based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 David Reeb , Michael M. Wolf

In 1994, Talagrand showed a generalization of the celebrated KKL theorem. In this work, we prove that the converse of this generalization also holds. Namely, for any sequence of numbers $0<a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_n\le 1$ such that $\sum_{j=1}^n…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Saleet Klein , Amit Levi , Muli Safra , Clara Shikhelman , Yinon Spinka