Concentration inequalities for Markov chains by Marton couplings and spectral methods

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Abstract: We prove a version of McDiarmid's bounded differences inequality for Markov chains, with constants proportional to the mixing time of the chain. We also show variance bounds and Bernstein-type inequalities for empirical averages of Markov chains. In the case of non-reversible chains, we introduce a new quantity called the "pseudo spectral gap", and show that it plays a similar role for non-reversible chains as the spectral gap plays for reversible chains. Our techniques for proving these results are based on a coupling construction of Katalin Marton, and on spectral techniques due to Pascal Lezaud. The pseudo spectral gap generalises the multiplicative reversiblication approach of Jim Fill.





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