Measure Concentration of Markov Tree Processes
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We prove an apparently novel concentration of measure result for Markov tree processes. The bound we derive reduces to the known bounds for Markov processes when the tree is a chain, thus strictly generalizing the known Markov process concentration results. We employ several techniques of potential independent interest, especially for obtaining similar results for more general directed acyclic graphical models.
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