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Discontinuous Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for sampling discrete parameters

Discontinuous Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (DHMC) is an extension of HMC that can sample from a piecewise-smooth target density and hence from a discrete parameter space through embedding it into a continuous space. The details of the algorithm and comparisons to other samplers can be found in "Discontinuous Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for sampling discrete parameters" by Nishimura et. al. (2017).

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The 'demo' folder contains Jupyter notebooks to illustrate the use and efficiency of DHMC by applying the sampler to the Jolly-Seber model (open population capture-recapture) and PAC Bayesian inference (PAC = probably approximately correct).

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