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/**
 * Non-conjugate single-variable samplers for Gibbs solver.
 * <p>
 * This package contains interfaces and implementations of single-variable samplers
 * for variables that cannot take advantage of conjugate factor relationships and
 * have to work generally for arbitrary factors. All of the samplers in this package indirectly implement the interface
 * {@link com.analog.lyric.dimple.solvers.gibbs.samplers.generic.IGenericSampler IGenericSampler}, but more specifically
 * implement one of:
 * <ul>
 * <li> {@linkplain com.analog.lyric.dimple.solvers.gibbs.samplers.generic.IDiscreteDirectSampler IDiscreteDirectSampler}
 * <li> {@linkplain com.analog.lyric.dimple.solvers.gibbs.samplers.generic.IMCMCSampler IMCMCSampler}
 * </ul>
 * Some sampler implementations can be configured with options. Currently this includes the classes:
 * <ul>
 * <li>{@linkplain com.analog.lyric.dimple.solvers.gibbs.samplers.generic.MHSampler MHSampler}
 * <li>{@linkplain com.analog.lyric.dimple.solvers.gibbs.samplers.generic.SliceSampler SliceSampler}
 * </ul>
 * When that is the case, the relevant option keys are defined in static public fields within the implementation
 * classes and the sampler can be configured by setting the option on the variable for that
 * sampler instance (or on the graph itself if all variables in the graph will share the same parameters).
 */
@NonNullByDefault
package com.analog.lyric.dimple.solvers.gibbs.samplers.generic;
import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault;