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Aryeh Kontorovich
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$\phi$-entropies, $\phi$-divergences and classical entropy recovery

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Open problem: $\log n$ factor in Binomial empirical process

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Gaussian approximation of the characteristic function of Rademacher sum

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Interesting mathematical topics arising from biology

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Should one state the sharpest version of a Lemma even if only a weaker version is needed?

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Differentiability of distance to a closed convex set

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Entropy & difference between max and min values of probability mass

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$0$-"norm" minimization with least-squares regularization

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Rademacher average involving minima

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A lower bound for the expectation of $\min\{X,n-X\}$ when $X$ follows a $\mathrm{Binomial}(n,p)$ distribution

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Quantitative version of Jensen's inequality?

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Finite VC dimension > the number of free parameters

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Small ideas that became big

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Measurable total order

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Bounding the product of lipschitz function

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How to learn a continuous function?

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Approximation of sum of the first binomial coefficients for fixed N

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Continuous functions dense in $L_1$

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Explicit extension of Lipschitz function (Kirszbraun theorem)

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How useful is differential geometry and topology to deep learning?

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Maximum of independent, unit-variance Gaussians with non-zero means

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Lipschitz function of independent subgaussian random variables

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What does the KL being symmetric tell us about the distributions?

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Empirical estimator for total variation distance between two product distributions

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If $X$ is discrete and $Z,W$ are discrete or continuous, is it always the case that $P(X=x\mid Z) \geq P(X=x\mid Z,W)$?

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Expected minimum of a linear function on the unit cube

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KL divergence and convolution of distributions

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Applications of basic linear algebra concepts to computer science?

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Use covering number to get uniform concentration from pointwise concentration

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What are some examples of ingenious, unexpected constructions?