A function $f$ is Hamming-Lipschitz if $|f(x) - f(y)|$ is at most the Hamming distance between $x$ and $y$ (the number of coordinates where they differ).
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Key lemma for Talagrand's certifiable functions inequality: if $\{f \geq r\}$ is $s$-certifiable, $f$ is Hamming-Lipschitz, and $f(y) \geq r$, then the convex distance from $y$ to $\{f \leq r - t\}$ is at least $t / \sqrt{s}$.
Talagrand's inequality for $s$-certifiable Hamming-Lipschitz functions (Theorem 9.5.21): $\mathbb{P}(f \leq r - t) \cdot \mathbb{P}(f \geq r) \leq \exp(-t^2 / (4s))$.
$m$ is a median of $f$ under the product measure $\prod_i \mu_i$: both $\{f \leq m\}$ and $\{f \geq m\}$ have probability at least $1/2$.
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Corollary 9.5.22: two-sided concentration around the median for Hamming-Lipschitz functions whose upper level sets are $\lfloor r \rfloor$-certifiable: $\mathbb{P}(f \leq m - t) \leq 2\exp(-t^2/(4m))$ and $\mathbb{P}(f \geq m + t) \leq 2\exp(-t^2/(4(m+t)))$.
Technical lemma: for any $K > 0$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, one can choose $C$ large enough that $2\exp(-C^2/(4K)) + 2\exp(-C^2/(4(K+C))) \leq \varepsilon$.
Concentration of the longest-increasing-subsequence-type statistic: if the median $m$ of $f$ satisfies $m \leq K\sqrt{n}$ and the Talagrand tail bounds hold, then for every $\varepsilon > 0$ there exists $C$ such that $\mathbb{P}(|f - m| > C n^{1/4}) \leq \varepsilon$.