User-Friendly Tail Bounds for Matrix Martingales

This report presents probability inequalities for sums of adapted sequences of random, self-adjoint matrices. The results frame simple, easily verifiable hypotheses on the summands, and they yield strong conclusions about the large-deviation behavior of the maximum eigenvalue of the sum. The methods also specialize to sums of independent random matrices.

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