A note on concentration of submodular functions
Abstract
We survey a few concentration inequalities for submodular and fractionally subadditive functions of independent random variables, implied by the entropy method for self-bounding functions. The power of these concentration bounds is that they are dimension-free, in particular implying standard deviation O([f]) rather than O(n) which can be obtained for any 1-Lipschitz function of n variables.
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