PRLGMLFeb 11, 2021

Some Hoeffding- and Bernstein-type Concentration Inequalities

arXiv:2102.06304v42 citations
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This work addresses theoretical foundations in machine learning by providing tools for analyzing generalization bounds, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concentration inequality frameworks.

The paper tackles the problem of deriving concentration inequalities for functions of independent random variables under sub-gaussian and sub-exponential conditions, resulting in an extension of the Rademacher complexities method to Lipschitz function classes and unbounded sub-exponential distributions.

We prove concentration inequalities for functions of independent random variables {under} sub-gaussian and sub-exponential conditions. The utility of the inequalities is demonstrated by an extension of the now classical method of Rademacher complexities to Lipschitz function classes and unbounded sub-exponential distribution.

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