I've used and read about many concentration inequalities in machine learning and other applied math disciplines (Hoeffdings, McDiarmid, etc). Talagrands' resul

I've used and read about many concentration inequalities in machine learning and other applied math disciplines (Hoeffdings, McDiarmid, etc). Talagrands' results seem to generalize those, but I haven't had the chance to see them in the wild (yet).