Modified log-Sobolev inequalities for strongly log-concave distributions

14 Mar 2019 · Mary Cryan, Heng Guo, Giorgos Mousa ·

We show that the modified log-Sobolev constant for a natural Markov chain which converges to an $r$-homogeneous strongly log-concave distribution is at least $1/r$. Applications include a sharp mixing time bound for the bases-exchange walk for matroids, and a concentration bound for Lipschitz functions over these distributions.