Cracking the Cutoff Window

Hamilton Institute Seminars (HD / large) by Hamilton Institute

Jun 10, 201239:38Education

Speaker: C. Lancia Abstract: The cutoff phenomenon is the abrupt convergence to stationarity of a Markov chain. It is characterized by a narrow window centered around a cutoff-time in which the distance from stationarity...

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