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arxiv: 1702.05720 · v2 · pith:MN4VGCXCnew · submitted 2017-02-19 · 🧮 math.PR

Simple perfect samplers using monotone birth-and-death processes

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keywords monotonebd-processdistributionperfectsamplerstargetbirth-and-deathbounds
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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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