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  2. ABSTRACT A key set‐theoretic “spread” lemma has been central to two recent celebrated results in combinatorics: the recent improvements on the sunflower conjecture by Alweiss, Lovett, Wu, and Zhang; and the proof of the fractional Kahn–Kalai conjecture by Frankston, Kahn, Narayanan, and Park. In this work, we present a new proof of the spread lemma, that—perhaps surprisingly—takes advantage of an explicit recasting of the proof in the language of Bayesian inference. We show that from this viewpoint the reasoning proceeds in a straightforward and principled probabilistic manner, leading to a truncated second moment calculation which concludes the proof. 
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  3. Abstract Entropic Brenier maps are regularized analogues of Brenier maps (optimal transport maps) which converge to Brenier maps as the regularization parameter shrinks. In this work, we prove quantitative stability bounds between entropic Brenier maps under variations of the target measure. In particular, when all measures have bounded support, we establish the optimal Lipschitz constant for the mapping from probability measures to entropic Brenier maps. This provides an exponential improvement to a result of Carlier, Chizat, and Laborde (2024). As an application, we prove near-optimal bounds for the stability of semi-discrete unregularized Brenier maps for a family of discrete target measures. 
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