Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5777182 | Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics | 2017 | 13 Pages |
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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Authors
Stephen DeSalvo,