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Anti-concentration of Gaussian when conditioning on event
Let $v$ be a given vector with $\|v\|_{\Sigma^{-1}} \leq 1$, where $\Sigma$ is a positive semi-definite matrix and $\|v\|_{\Sigma^{-1}} = \sqrt{v^\top\Sigma v}$. Meanwhile, let $u$ be a random vector ...
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Bound the norm of sum of random vector that generated from standard basis
I have a question like this:
Consider $N$ samples $X_1, X_2, ..., X_N$ that uniformly random generated from standard basis $\{e_i, i=1,2,...,d\}$, i.e. $(1,0,0,\cdots,0),(0,1,0,\cdots,0),(0,0,1,0,\...
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A distribution which is Wasserstein-close to a compactly supported distribution is almost compactly supported
I wonder whether this is true: If a distribution is very close (in the Wassertein sense) to another distribution with compact support, then the former must put only tiny amount of mass outside a ...
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On concentration of a sum random variable
Take a random variable defined as
$$r=u_{11}v_{1}v_{1}+u_{12}v_{1}v_{2}+\dots+u_{n,n-1}v_{n}v_{n-1}+u_{nn}v_{n}v_{n}$$ where $v_{i}$ are independent uniform random variables from $\{0,\dots,b\}$, $u_{...
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Anti-concentration bounds for folded normal and inverse of gaussian variables
Are there any easy to use bounds on sums of the following kind :
$$
\sum_{i = 1}^{i = N} |a_i| \geq P \\
a_i \sim \mathcal{N}(0, 1) \\
$$
and also for sums of the form :
$$
\sum_{i = 1}^{i = M} \...
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How to compute bounding coefficients for McDiarmid's inequality?
I am trying to understand the proof in Sec. A2 of Gretton et al.. To make the question self-contained, I summarize below the key ingredients. At the end of the post, I state my question.
Given a ...