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stat.CO2016
A Poisson process model for Monte Carlo
Chris J. Maddison
Simulating samples from arbitrary probability distributions is a major research program of statistical computing. Recent work has shown promise in an old idea, that sampling from a…
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A* Sampling
Chris J. Maddison, Daniel Tarlow, Tom Minka
The problem of drawing samples from a discrete distribution can be converted into a discrete optimization problem. In this work, we show how sampling from a continuous distribution…