Permuton and local limits for the Luce model

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Hauptverfasser: Borga, Jacopo, Chatterjee, Sourav, Diaconis, Persi
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author Borga, Jacopo
Chatterjee, Sourav
Diaconis, Persi
author_facet Borga, Jacopo
Chatterjee, Sourav
Diaconis, Persi
contents We investigate the asymptotic properties of permutations drawn from the Luce model, a natural probabilistic framework in which permutations are generated sequentially by sampling without replacement, with selection probabilities proportional to prescribed positive weights. These permutations arise in applications such as ranking models, the Tsetlin library, and related Markov processes. Under minimal assumptions on the weights, we establish a permuton limit theorem describing the global behavior of Luce-distributed permutations and derive an explicit density of the limiting permuton. We further compute limiting pattern densities and analyze the differences between exact Luce permutations and their permuton approximations. We also study the local convergence of these permutations, proving a quenched Benjamini--Schramm limit and a central limit theorem for consecutive pattern occurrences. Finally, we prove a central limit theorem for the number of inversions.
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spellingShingle Permuton and local limits for the Luce model
Borga, Jacopo
Chatterjee, Sourav
Diaconis, Persi
Probability
Combinatorics
We investigate the asymptotic properties of permutations drawn from the Luce model, a natural probabilistic framework in which permutations are generated sequentially by sampling without replacement, with selection probabilities proportional to prescribed positive weights. These permutations arise in applications such as ranking models, the Tsetlin library, and related Markov processes. Under minimal assumptions on the weights, we establish a permuton limit theorem describing the global behavior of Luce-distributed permutations and derive an explicit density of the limiting permuton. We further compute limiting pattern densities and analyze the differences between exact Luce permutations and their permuton approximations. We also study the local convergence of these permutations, proving a quenched Benjamini--Schramm limit and a central limit theorem for consecutive pattern occurrences. Finally, we prove a central limit theorem for the number of inversions.
title Permuton and local limits for the Luce model
topic Probability
Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07729