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Perfect Matchings via Uniform Sampling in Regular Bipartite Graphs
[article]
2008
arXiv
pre-print
In this paper we further investigate the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a regular bipartite graph. ...
We obtain this improvement by proving a uniform sampling theorem: if we sample each edge in a d-regular bipartite graph independently with a probability p = O(n n/d^2) then the resulting graph has a perfect ...
Acknowledgments We thank Rajat Bhattacharjee for many helpful discussions in the early stages of this work. ...
arXiv:0811.2457v1
fatcat:varj5nmfprezxklic75ggteauy
Perfect Matchings via Uniform Sampling in Regular Bipartite Graphs
[chapter]
2009
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
In this paper we further investigate the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a regular bipartite graph. ...
We obtain this improvement by proving a uniform sampling theorem: if we sample each edge in a d-regular bipartite graph independently with a probability p = O( n ln n d 2 ) then the resulting graph has ...
Acknowledgments We thank Rajat Bhattacharjee for many helpful discussions in the early stages of this work. ...
doi:10.1137/1.9781611973068.2
fatcat:6d7xpfilpnbircm2dabtjwla74
Perfect matchings via uniform sampling in regular bipartite graphs
2010
ACM Transactions on Algorithms
In this paper we further investigate the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a regular bipartite graph. ...
We obtain this improvement by proving a uniform sampling theorem: if we sample each edge in a d-regular bipartite graph independently with a probability p = O( n ln n d 2 ) then the resulting graph has ...
Acknowledgments We thank Rajat Bhattacharjee for many helpful discussions in the early stages of this work. ...
doi:10.1145/1721837.1721843
fatcat:7gotcx4ucjblndgg7f5lapvnja
Approximating the permanent of graphs with large factors
1992
Theoretical Computer Science
We characterize the complexity of counting the number of perfect matchings in classes of graphs parameterized by factor size. ...
The factor size of G, A is the maximum number of edge disjoint perfect matchings in G. ...
Fig. 3 . 3 Theorem 6.2. (1) Exact counting of perfect matchings in 3-regular bipartite graphs is#P-complete. ...
doi:10.1016/0304-3975(92)90234-7
fatcat:o4rpq26chbhd3e4zbrrgo2om3m
Perfect Matchings in Õ(n^1.5) Time in Regular Bipartite Graphs
[article]
2009
arXiv
pre-print
To obtain this result, we design and analyze a two-stage sampling scheme that reduces the problem of finding a perfect matching in a regular bipartite graph to the same problem on a subsampled bipartite ...
We consider the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in d-regular bipartite graphs with 2n vertices and m = nd edges. ...
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Rajat Bhattacharjee for many useful discussions on precursors to this work, and Michel Goemans for suggesting an alternate proof mentioned in remark 3.9. ...
arXiv:0902.1617v2
fatcat:6fci7uvdrjgblbjdga63yrwgpy
Marathon: An Open Source Software Library for the Analysis of Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms
2016
PLoS ONE
We use marathon to investigate the quality of several bounding methods on four well-known Markov chains for sampling perfect matchings and bipartite graph realizations. ...
In this paper, we consider the Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach for random sampling of combinatorial objects. ...
The problem of uniformly sampling a perfect matching in a bipartite graph and of uniformly sampling a bipartite graph realization for given vertex degrees. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147935
pmid:26824442
pmcid:PMC4732767
fatcat:3yh6dweanbckbehqldp5xtvipq
Exact Sampling from Perfect Matchings of Dense Regular Bipartite Graphs
2005
Algorithmica
The problem of counting the number of perfect matchings in these types of graphs is P complete. ...
We present the first algorithm for generating random variates exactly uniformly from the set of perfect matchings of a bipartite graph with a polynomial expected running time over a nontrivial set of graphs ...
Given a bipartite graph (V, E) with n nodes in each of the two partitions (so |V | = 2n), a perfect matching is a subset of edges such that each node is incident to exactly one edge. ...
doi:10.1007/s00453-005-1175-9
fatcat:n5ynlfcahvchtd3dypuxrjwk4i
Broder's Chain Is Not Rapidly Mixing
[article]
2014
arXiv
pre-print
We prove that Broder's Markov chain for approximate sampling near-perfect and perfect matchings is not rapidly mixing for Hamiltonian, regular, threshold and planar bipartite graphs, filling a gap in the ...
graph is known. ...
Note that exact counting and uniform sampling perfect matchings in planar graphs is efficiently possible [Kas61, Edm65] . ...
arXiv:1404.4249v1
fatcat:t52tnnbmirha3oq3s2z2h6tgxe
On realizations of a joint degree matrix
2015
Discrete Applied Mathematics
This was claimed before, but there is an error in the previous proof, which we illustrate by example. ...
Finally, we address some of the issues concerning the mixing time of the corresponding MCMC method to sample uniformly from these realizations. ...
Take a perfect matching on each bipartite graph (this is called a configuration). ...
doi:10.1016/j.dam.2014.10.012
fatcat:md4fzuchmnbe5g4iotptiy6mou
A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the permanent of a matrix with nonnegative entries
2004
Journal of the ACM
The Sampling Algorithm As explained in the previous section, our goal now is to design an efficient (almost) uniform sampling algorithm for perfect matchings in a bipartite graph G = G A . ...
Now, Broder [1986] has demonstrated how an almost uniform sampler for perfect matchings in a bipartite graph may be converted into an FPRAS. ...
doi:10.1145/1008731.1008738
fatcat:wnm4wuvuqve3xflqh3prmh5p7e
A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the permanent of a matrix with non-negative entries
2001
Proceedings of the thirty-third annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing - STOC '01
The Sampling Algorithm As explained in the previous section, our goal now is to design an efficient (almost) uniform sampling algorithm for perfect matchings in a bipartite graph G = G A . ...
Now, Broder [1986] has demonstrated how an almost uniform sampler for perfect matchings in a bipartite graph may be converted into an FPRAS. ...
doi:10.1145/380752.380877
dblp:conf/stoc/JerrumSV01
fatcat:6gh23dco4vawraaitbbrcarz3i
An Experimental Study of Algorithms for Online Bipartite Matching
[article]
2018
arXiv
pre-print
Greediness is by far the most important property of online algorithms for bipartite matching. ...
We perform an experimental study of algorithms for online bipartite matching under the known i.i.d. input model with integral types. ...
Consecutive pairs of blocks along the rope are connected alternately by perfect matchings and random bipartite graphs of average degree d − 1, beginning and ending with perfect matchings. ...
arXiv:1808.04863v1
fatcat:2cxtryl53fdvjjwcprhxswovdm
Bethe Learning of Conditional Random Fields via MAP Decoding
[article]
2015
arXiv
pre-print
Our algorithm outperforms existing methods in experiments involving image segmentation, matching problems from vision, and a new dataset of university roommate assignments. ...
Many machine learning tasks can be formulated in terms of predicting structured outputs. ...
We sample 10 × 10 bipartite matchings from the distribution (11). ...
arXiv:1503.01228v1
fatcat:3c2t2zgzqnhfvnizjnsdoft5je
The Perfect Matching Reconfiguration Problem
2019
International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
We study the perfect matching reconfiguration problem: Given two perfect matchings of a graph, is there a sequence of flip operations that transforms one into the other? ...
We first prove that the problem is PSPACE-complete even for split graphs and for bipartite graphs of bounded bandwidth with maximum degree five. We then investigate polynomial-time solvable cases. ...
Sampling random perfect matchings The problem of sampling or enumerating perfect matchings in a graph received considerable attention (see, e.g., [31] ). ...
doi:10.4230/lipics.mfcs.2019.80
dblp:conf/mfcs/BonamyBHIKMMW19
fatcat:fa6svucqxvfqdju2qpywe7of6i
Counting vertices of integral polytopes defined by facets
[article]
2022
arXiv
pre-print
The result follows from Valiant's classical result that counting perfect matchings in a bipartite graph is #P-complete [22] . 2 The perfect 2-matching polytope In this section we see that by going a little ...
Thus, counting perfect matchings in a bipartite graph can be reduced to counting vertices of an easily computable and easily described polytope. ...
Suppose u h = v h is the lowest common ancestor of u and v in T . ...
arXiv:2105.01469v2
fatcat:sxwbv3qiwff27mqnorcdfesehq
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