Sasha Rush publishes tutorial on sampling without randomness, centered on variance reduction
srush_nlp · x · 2026-10-02
Princeton professor Sasha Rush released "Sampling to Reinforce", an elementary tutorial on sampling without randomness, built around building intuition for variance reduction as the key challenge. Aimed at readers wanting to understand the principles behind these sampling techniques, with accompanying visuals.
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