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Concentration inequalities, a major tool in probability theory, quantify how much a random variable deviates from a certain quantity. This paper proposes a systematic convex optimization approach to studying and generating concentration…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Celine Moucer , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

In this paper we establish a comparison result through symmetrization for solutions to some boundary value problems involving the fractional Laplacian. This allows to get sharp estimates for the solutions, obtained by comparing them with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Giuseppina Di Blasio , Bruno Volzone

Transitive consistency is an intrinsic property for collections of linear invertible transformations between Euclidean coordinate frames. In practice, when the transformations are estimated from data, this property is lacking. This work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Johan Thunberg , Florian Bernard , Jorge Goncalves

In this paper, we obtain some uniform laws of large numbers and functional central limit theorems for sequential empirical measure processes indexed by classes of product functions satisfying appropriate Vapnik-Chervonenkis properties.

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-03 Omar El-Dakkak

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a class of measurable functions on a measurable space $(S,\mathcal{S})$ with values in $[0,1]$ and let \[P_n=n^{-1}\sum_{i=1}^n\delta_{X_i}\] be the empirical measure based on an i.i.d. sample $(X_1,...,X_n)$ from a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Evarist Giné , Vladimir Koltchinskii

This paper examines a stochastic deconvolution problem on compact symmetric spaces which is referred to as decompounding. This involves estimating the step distributions of a random walk, where in addition the number of steps between…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Erik Kennerland

In this paper we provide a convergence analysis of some variational methods alternative to the classical Tikhonov regularization, namely Ivanov regularization (also called method of quasi solutions) with some versions of the discrepancy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Andrej Klassen

The "variance method" has been used to prove many classical inequalities in design theory and coding theory. The purpose of this expository note is to review and present some of these inequalities in a unified setting. I will also discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Douglas R. Stinson

For a real-valued measurable function $f$ and a nonnegative, nondecreasing function $\phi$, we first obtain a Chebyshev type inequality which provides an upper bound for $\displaystyle \phi(\lambda_{1}) \mu(\{x \in \Omega : f(x) \geq…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 M. Ashraf Bhat , G. Sankara Raju Kosuru

Convergence rates in spectral regularization methods quantify the approximation error in inverse problems as a function of the noise level or the number of sampling points. Classical strong convergence rate results typically rely on source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Sabrina Guastavino , Gabriele Santin , Francesco Marchetti , Federico Benvenuto

The aim of the paper is to introduce an alternative notion of two-scale convergence which gives a more natural modeling approach to the homogenization of partial differential equations with periodically oscillating coefficients: while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 François Alouges , Giovanni Di Fratta

In this work, we investigate the use of Besov priors in the context of Bayesian inverse problems. The solution to Bayesian inverse problems is the posterior distribution which naturally enables us to interpret the uncertainties. Besov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Andreas Horst , Babak Maboudi Afkham , Yiqiu Dong , Jakob Lemvig

We give a new proof of the compactness of minimizing sequences of the Sobolev inequalities in the critical case. Our approach relies on a simplified version of the concentration-compactness principle, which does not require any refinement…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Charlotte Dietze , Phan Thành Nam

This paper focuses on the invariance control problem for discrete-time switched nonlinear systems. The proposed approach computes controlled invariant sets in a finite number of iterations and directly yields a partition-based invariance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Yinan Li , Jun Liu

In this study, we provide mathematical and practice-driven justification for using $[0,1]$ normalization of inconsistency indicators in pairwise comparisons. The need for normalization, as well as problems with the lack of normalization,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-02-28 W. W. Koczkodaj , J. -P. Magnot , J. Mazurek , J. F. Peters , H. Rakhshani , M. Soltys , D. Strzałka , J. Szybowski , A. Tozzi

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

Uniform convergence of empirical norms - empirical measures of squared functions - is a topic which has received considerable attention in the literature on empirical processes. The results are relevant as empirical norms occur due to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Sara van de Geer

Asynchronous methods for solving systems of linear equations have been researched since Chazan and Miranker's pioneering 1969 paper on chaotic relaxation. The underlying idea of asynchronous methods is to avoid processor idle time by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Haim Avron , Alex Druinsky , Anshul Gupta

Using the method of transportation-information inequality introduced in \cite{GLWY}, we establish Bernstein type's concentration inequalities for empirical means $\frac 1t \int_0^t g(X_s)ds$ where $g$ is a unbounded observable of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-02-11 Fuqing Gao , Arnaud Guillin , Liming Wu

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