Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a popular class of algorithms to sample from a complex distribution. A key issue in the design of MCMC algorithms is to improve the proposal mechanism and the mixing behaviour. This has led some authors to propose the use of a population of MCMC chains, while others go even further by integrating techniques from evolutionary computation (EC) into the MCMC framework. This merging of MCMC and EC leads to a class of algorithms, we call Evolutionary Markov Chain Monte Carlo (EMCMC). In this paper we first survey existing EMCMC algorithms and categorise them in two classes: family-competitive EMCMC and population-driven EMCMC. Next, we introduce the Elitist Coupled Acceptance rule and the Fitness Ordered Tempering algorithm. © Springer-Verlag 2004.
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Drugan, M. M., & Thierens, D. (2004). Evolutionary Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2936, 63–76. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24621-3_6
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