Ariel Avital

collaborators

2 papers

math.PR2026

TV over Bernoulli products: the small parameter regime

Ariel Avital, Aryeh Kontorovich, George Salafatinos

We study the total variation distance (TV) between two $n$ -fold Bernoulli product measures parametrized by $p = (p_{1}, \dots, p_{n})$ and $q = (q_{1}, \dots, q_{n})$ , respectively, in…

math.PR2024

Sharp bounds on aggregate expert error

Aryeh Kontorovich, Ariel Avital

We revisit the classic problem of aggregating binary advice from conditionally independent experts, also known as the Naive Bayes setting. Our quantity of interest is the error pro…