Perfect sampling from spatial mixing

Weiming Feng*, Heng Guo, Yitong Yin

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We introduce a new perfect sampling technique that can be applied to general Gibbs distributions and runs in linear time if the correlation decays faster than the neighborhood growth. In particular, in graphs with sub-exponential neighborhood growth like Z𝑑, our algorithm achieves linear running time as long as Gibbs sampling is rapidly mixing. As concrete applications, we obtain the currently best perfect samplers for colorings and for monomer-dimer models in such graphs.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)678-709
Number of pages32
JournalRandom Structures and Algorithms
Volume61
Issue number4
Early online date18 Feb 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2022

Keywords

  • perfect sampling
  • Gibbs distribution
  • spatial mixing

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