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Multi-dimensional Boltzmann Sampling of Languages

Abstract

This paper addresses the uniform random generation of words from a context-free language (over an alphabet of size kk), while constraining every letter to a targeted frequency of occurrence. Our approach consists in a multidimensional extension of Boltzmann samplers \cite{Duchon2004}. We show that, under mostly \emph{strong-connectivity} hypotheses, our samplers return a word of size in [(1ε)n,(1+ε)n][(1-\varepsilon)n, (1+\varepsilon)n] and exact frequency in O(n1+k/2)\mathcal{O}(n^{1+k/2}) expected time. Moreover, if we accept tolerance intervals of width in Ω(n)\Omega(\sqrt{n}) for the number of occurrences of each letters, our samplers perform an approximate-size generation of words in expected O(n)\mathcal{O}(n) time. We illustrate these techniques on the generation of Tetris tessellations with uniform statistics in the different types of tetraminoes.Comment: 12p

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