The Swendsen-Wang algorithm (tutorial), and the "Baby and Toy" algorithm
- đ¤ Speaker: David MacKay
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 13 April 2006, 15:00 - 16:00
- đ Venue: HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory
Abstract
You can find 4 pages on “The Swendsen-Wang algorithm” here: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/ExtraChapters.html
I’ll also describe the new “Baby and Toy” algorithm (by Iain Murray, Zoubin Ghahramani, and David MacKay) for sampling from doubly-intractable distributions. The paper is available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~iam23/tmp/doubly_intractable.pdf
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David MacKay
Thursday 13 April 2006, 15:00-16:00