David G. Harris

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2 papers

math.PR2025

Simple parallel estimation of the partition ratio for Gibbs distributions

David G. Harris, Vladimir Kolmogorov

We consider the problem of estimating the partition function $Z (β) = \sum_{x} exp (β (H (x))$ of a Gibbs distribution with the Hamiltonian $H : Ω \to {0} \cup [1, n]$ . As shown in [Ha…

cs.DS2020

Parameter estimation for Gibbs distributions

David G. Harris, Vladimir Kolmogorov

We consider Gibbs distributions, which are families of probability distributions over a discrete space $Ω$ with probability mass function of the form $μ_{β}^{Ω} (ω) \propto e^{β H (ω)}$ f…