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Improvements to exact Boltzmann sampling using probabilistic divide-and-conquer and the recursive method Cover

Improvements to exact Boltzmann sampling using probabilistic divide-and-conquer and the recursive method

By: Stephen DeSalvo  
Open Access
|Jul 2017

Abstract

We demonstrate an approach for exact sampling of certain discrete combinatorial distributions, which is a hybrid of exact Boltzmann sampling and the recursive method, using probabilistic divide-and-conquer (PDC). The approach specializes to exact Boltzmann sampling in the trivial setting, and specializes to PDC deterministic second half in the first non-trivial application. A large class of examples is given for which this method broadly applies, and several examples are worked out explicitly.

Language: English
Page range: 22 - 45
Submitted on: Sep 30, 2016
Published on: Jul 14, 2017
Published by: Corvinus University of Budapest
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2017 Stephen DeSalvo, published by Corvinus University of Budapest
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