The forgetfulness of balls and bins |
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| Authors: | Will Perkins |
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| Institution: | School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
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| Abstract: | We find the asymptotic total variation distance between two distributions on configurations of m balls in n labeled bins: in the first, each ball is placed in a bin uniformly at random; in the second, k balls are planted in an arbitrary but fixed arrangement and the remaining m ‐ k balls placed uniformly at random. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2012 |
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| Keywords: | balls‐and‐bins planted distributions detection random structures |
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