Conditional Resampled Importance Sampling and ReSTIR
Recent work on generalized resampled importance sampling (GRIS) enables importance-sampled Monte Carlo integration with random variable weights replacing the usual division by probability density. This enables very flexible spatiotemporal sample reuse, even if neighboring samples (e.g., light paths) have intractable probability densities. Unlike typical Monte Carlo integration, which samples according to some PDF, GRIS instead resamples existing samples. But resampling with GRIS assumes samples.
