Improvements to exact Boltzmann sampling using probabilistic divide-and-conquer and the recursive method
Combinatorics
2016-08-30 v1 Probability
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.
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@article{arxiv.1608.07922,
title = {Improvements to exact Boltzmann sampling using probabilistic divide-and-conquer and the recursive method},
author = {Stephen DeSalvo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07922},
year = {2016}
}
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