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Conditions for Rapid and Torpid Mixing of Parallel and Simulated Tempering on Multimodal Distributions

Woodard, Dawn Banister (2007-09-14)

Stochastic sampling methods are ubiquitous in statistical mechanics, Bayesian statistics, and theoretical computer science. However, when the distribution that is being sampled is multimodal, many of these techniques converge ...