惯性聚合 高效追踪和阅读你感兴趣的博客、新闻、科技资讯
阅读原文 在惯性聚合中打开

推荐订阅源

U
Unit 42
小众软件
小众软件
Y
Y Combinator Blog
S
SegmentFault 最新的问题
WordPress大学
WordPress大学
宝玉的分享
宝玉的分享
人人都是产品经理
人人都是产品经理
freeCodeCamp Programming Tutorials: Python, JavaScript, Git & More
L
LangChain Blog
Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler
美团技术团队
B
Blog RSS Feed
GbyAI
GbyAI
Cyber Security Advisories - MS-ISAC
Cyber Security Advisories - MS-ISAC
大猫的无限游戏
大猫的无限游戏
博客园 - 司徒正美
T
Tailwind CSS Blog
钛媒体:引领未来商业与生活新知
钛媒体:引领未来商业与生活新知
T
The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft Azure Blog
腾讯CDC
Hugging Face - Blog
Hugging Face - Blog
D
Docker
G
Google Developers Blog

cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

PAC Learning with Bandit Feedback: Sharp Sample Complexity in the Realizable Setting Algorithms with Polynomially-Improved Approximation Factors for the $2 \rightarrow q$ Norm, and Applications Approximation algorithms for the prize-collecting rural postman problem A computational phase transition for learning-to-sample from Ising models Covering vertices by sequential stars Fermi-Dirac machines as quantizations of neurons A Comprehensive Evaluation of Vertex Elimination Algorithms for Algorithmic Differentiation A Tight Bound on Localization of Electrical Flows Optimal Dimension-Free Sampling for Regularized Classification Reducing the Randomness in Partition Oracles for Bounded Degree Minor-Free Graphs Beyond the Half-Approximation: Fair and Efficient Online Class Matching Tractable Maximization of Budgeted Phylogenetic Diversity on Networks Utilizing Node Scanwidth Fairness in Aggregation: Optimal Top-$k$ and Improved Full Ranking Learning-Augmented Online Scheduling with Parsimonious Preemption Entropy Equivalence Testing Lumberjack: Better Differentially Private Random Forests through Heavy Hitter Detection in Trees The Secretary Problem with a Stochastic Precursor Polynomial-Time Robust Multiclass Linear Classification under Gaussian Marginals Efficient Banzhaf-Based Data Valuation for $k$-Nearest Neighbors Classification Block-Sphere Vector Quantization An Approximation Algorithm for Graph Label Selection Iterative Chow Filtering for Learning with Distribution Shift Complexity of Non-Log-Concave Sampling in Fisher Information Stochastic Matching via Local Sparsification Finite Sample Bounds for Learning with Score Matching What is Learnable in Valiant's Theory of the Learnable? Provable Quantization with Randomized Hadamard Transform Min-Max Optimization Requires Exponentially Many Queries Fast and Compact Graph Cuts for the Boykov-Kolmogorov Algorithm A proximal gradient algorithm for composite log-concave sampling
Efficient Uniform Sampling of Surjections via their Profiles
Arnaud Carayol, Pablo Rotondo · 2026-05-22 · via cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

In this article, we develop efficient sampling algorithms for random surjections from $[n]$ to $[k]$ for all $n \geq k$. We make no assumption about $n$ and $k$. In particular, we do not make the common assumption that the ratio $\frac{n}{k}$ is constant. All our guarantees are uniform in $n$ and $k$. Our first insight is that all the complexity in sampling random surjections is captured by sampling a smaller structure which we call the \emph{profile} of the surjection. More precisely, the profile associates to each occurring preimage size $s$ the number of preimages of size $s$. Using standard techniques, we show that the problem of sampling surjections reduces to sampling the profile with the induced distribution. This is partly explained by the fact that profiles are always sublinear, with at most $\sqrt{2n}$ entries in the worst case. We provide a complete set of algorithms to directly sample the \emph{profile} of a random surjection with the induced distribution, covering the full parameter space. These algorithms are shown to be optimal up to logarithmic factors in the expected size of the output. Our algorithms are based on exact-size Boltzmann samplers, which are standard rejection-based samplers. We partition the parameter space into three main regions. In each region, we optimize both the rejection rate and the cost of each sampling round. Profiles capture a number of relevant statistics of random surjections and might be of independent interest. In a related context, profiles have been recently studied by Devroye et al. for random mappings. As a spin-off result, we answer an open question from Devroye and Los '25 by providing an optimal algorithm also for the profiles of a random mapping when $k > n/\log n$. The results of this article are not only of theoretical interest but lead to samplers implementable in practice.