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The Bernoulli Factory, extensions and applications

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Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

The celebrated Bernoulli Factory problem can be phrased as following: Given a black box to simulate a p-coin with unknown p, and given known function f, how to design an algorithm for sampling an f(p)-coin? Solving the Bernoulli Factory involves some elegant and enjoyable mathematics and somewhat surprisingly the problem shows up as a major burden in many computational settings, such as executing certain types of MCMC algorithms. I will discuss some of these applications as well as extensions of the Bernoulli Factory to more general random variables.

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