Adaptive rejection sampling
ID: adaptive-rejection-sampling
Adaptive rejection sampling builds a piecewise linear upper envelope for a differentiable log-concave probability density, samples from its piecewise exponential form, and accepts with the target-to-envelope ratio. Adding evaluated points improves the envelope without changing the target distribution. Initial tangent slopes must yield integrable tails. The accepted draws are exact samples, unlike a finite run of Markov chain Monte Carlo.
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