unbiased estimator of determinant

Just saw this new [one page] posting on arXiv, meaning an unbiased estimate of the determinant can be derived much faster. If less reliably. This trick can be helpful for (pseudo-marginal) MCMC steps when the determinant itself is of limited interest… (The importance version is not truly needed!)

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