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Simple perfect samplers using monotone birth-and-death processes

Probability 2017-03-28 v2

Abstract

This paper proposes simple perfect samplers using monotone birth-and-death processes (BD-processes), which draw samples from an arbitrary finite discrete target distribution. We first construct a monotone BD-process whose stationary distribution is equal to the target distribution. We then derive upper bounds for the expected coalescence time of the copies of the monotone BD-process. We also establish upper bounds for the expected values and tail probabilities of the running times of two perfect samplers, which are Doubling CFTP and Read-once CFTP using our monotone BD-process. The latter sampler can draw samples exactly from unnormalized target distributions with little memory consumption.

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@article{arxiv.1702.05720,
  title  = {Simple perfect samplers using monotone birth-and-death processes},
  author = {Hiroyuki Masuyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05720},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This paper has been submitted for publication in a special issue on "Queueing Theory and Network Applications" in Annals of Operations Research

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