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Data Structure for Dynamic Discrete Probability Distributions (github.com)
1 points by jlrubin 418 days ago
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Options like std::discrete_distribution don't allow updates, in Rust e.g. https://docs.rs/rand_distr/latest/rand_distr/weighted/struct... allows updates but sampling is O(log n) and updating is also O(log n).

This neat data structure has a great set of tradeoffs.