Questions tagged [sampling]
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Finding uniformly random perfect matching of a graph
Problem: Suppose that we have a graph $ G $ which admits at least one perfect matching. I would like to know if there is an algorithm that allows to find any perfect matching of this graph uniformly ...
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Boltzmann sampling for containers/dependent polynomials?
I’d like to randomly sample from dependently-typed data structures.
Has anyone looked at extending Boltzmann sampling to containers or dependent polynomials?
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Extension of a sampling Lemma of Indyk for $k$-median cost
A famous sampling lemma of Indyk (Theorem 31 here) states that if the $k$-median cost of a finite point set(in a metric space) is large with respect to the optimum, then this is true for the case of a ...
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Efficient sampling of primes
Using rejection sampling, it is trivial to construct a Las Vegas algorithm for sampling a uniformly random prime number less than a given $N$. What is known about sampling algorithms that run in worst-...
