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Weighted Sampling from a Probability Distribution

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Given a probability distribution over `N` categories (e.g. an M-faced biased die or softmax weights), draw a sample in `O(log N)`. The canonical solution is inverse-CDF sampling — build a cumulative p...

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Medium
Last asked
2026-03-25
Stage
phone-screen · onsite-coding

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