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How did the story of Kim-Vu type inequalities continue?

I am interested in the concentration of polynomials of random variables. I have been reading Boucheron, Lugosi, and Massart's "Concentration inequalities" and they give some references. ...
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Is there an example that both Berry-Essen bound and DKW bound are attained?

The Berry-Essen bound stated that $$\sup _{{x\in {\mathbb R}}}\left|\widehat{F_{n}(x)}-\Phi (x)\right|\leq C_{0}\cdot \psi _{0}$$ where $\psi _{0}(n)={\Big (}{\textstyle \sum \limits _{{i=1}}^{n}\...
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Concentration inequalities in $\ell_{\infty}$ for sums of iid random ("nice") functions?

I'm looking for "tail-bound-like" inequalities that look like this (I state a specific setting but more general settings are interesting): Let $D$ be a distribution on a set of "nice" functions $g$:...
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