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Let $X$ be a nonnegative random variable such that $\mathbf{E} \left[ \exp X \right] < \infty$. For $\theta \leqslant 1$, an appropriate application of Jensen's inequality, yields that \begin{align} \ …

When studying some concentration inequalities, it became relevant to consider the following discrepancy between two probability measures $\pi$ and $\nu$ (treating $\sigma \in \left( 0, \frac{1}{2} \ri …

I can recommend reading this recent note of Reeve, titled 'A short proof of the Dvoretzky--Kiefer--Wolfowitz--Massart inequality', which uses a nice reverse martingale approach, and builds on the orig …

Let $W: \mathbf{R}^d \to \mathbf{R}$ be a convex function such that $\int \exp(-W) = 1$, and define probability measures $\mu_y$ by $$\mu_y (dx) = \exp( - W (x - y)) \,dx,$$ i.e. each $\mu_y$ is a tra …

Suppose that $X$ is a centered, $\mathbf{R}^d$-valued random variable such that for all $t \in \mathbf{R}^d$, there holds the bound $$\log \mathbf{E} \left[ \exp \langle t, X \rangle \right] \leqslant …

Suppose that $X$ is a $1$-sub-Gaussian real-valued random variable, i.e. for all $t \in \mathbf{R}$, it holds that $\log \mathbf{E} \exp \left( t X \right) \leqslant \frac{1}{2} t^2 $. Does there alw …

Let $X$ be a centred random variable with variance $\sigma^2$, and whose moment-generating function exists in an open neighbourhood of the origin. Say that $X$ satisfies a 'Bernstein-type' MGF bound w …