Concentration inequalities for non-causal random fields

Abstract

Concentration inequalities are widely used for analyzing machines learning algorithms. However, current concentration inequalities cannot be applied to some of the most popular deep neural networks, notably in natural language processing. This is mostly due to the non-causal nature of such involved data, in the sense that each data point depends on other neighbor data points. In this paper, a framework for modeling non-causal random fields is provided and a Hoeffding-type concentration inequality is obtained for this framework. The proof of this result relies on a local approximation of the non-causal random field by a function of a finite number of i.i.d. random variables.