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add warning about heavy tailed acceptance rate of GPSS
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Due to the involvement of polar coordinates, GPSS only works reliably on more than one dimension.
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However, unlike ESS, GPSS is applicable to any target distribution.
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## Description
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For a $$d$$-dimensional target distribution $$\pi$$, GPSS utilizes the following augmented target distribution:
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The only tunable parameter of the algorithm is the size of the search interval (window) of the shrinkage sampler for the radius variable $$r$$.
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!!! warning
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A limitation of the current implementation of GPSS is that the acceptance rate exhibits a heavy tail. That is, occasionally, a single transition might take an excessive amount of time.
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!!! info
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The kernel corresponding to this sampler is defined on an **augmented state space** and cannot directly perform a transition on $$x$$.
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This also means that the corresponding kernel is not reversible with respect to $$x$$.

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