Approximating the erfinv function
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The inverse error function erfinv is a standard component of mathematical libraries, and particularly useful in statistical applications for converting uniform random numbers into Normal random numbers. This chapter presents a new approximation of the erfinv function which is significantly more efficient for GPU execution due to the greatly reduced warp divergence.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011