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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.83
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136225
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/13622/
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Anari, Nima ; Hu, Nathan ; Saberi, Amin ; Schild, Aaron

Sampling Arborescences in Parallel

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Abstract

We study the problem of sampling a uniformly random directed rooted spanning tree, also known as an arborescence, from a possibly weighted directed graph. Classically, this problem has long been known to be polynomial-time solvable; the exact number of arborescences can be computed by a determinant [Tutte, 1948], and sampling can be reduced to counting [Jerrum et al., 1986; Jerrum and Sinclair, 1996]. However, the classic reduction from sampling to counting seems to be inherently sequential. This raises the question of designing efficient parallel algorithms for sampling. We show that sampling arborescences can be done in RNC.
For several well-studied combinatorial structures, counting can be reduced to the computation of a determinant, which is known to be in NC [Csanky, 1975]. These include arborescences, planar graph perfect matchings, Eulerian tours in digraphs, and determinantal point processes. However, not much is known about efficient parallel sampling of these structures. Our work is a step towards resolving this mystery.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{anari_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.83,
  author =	{Nima Anari and Nathan Hu and Amin Saberi and Aaron Schild},
  title =	{{Sampling Arborescences in Parallel}},
  booktitle =	{12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021)},
  pages =	{83:1--83:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-177-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{185},
  editor =	{James R. Lee},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/13622},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136225},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.83},
  annote =	{Keywords: parallel algorithms, arborescences, spanning trees, random sampling}
}

Keywords: parallel algorithms, arborescences, spanning trees, random sampling
Collection: 12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 04.02.2021

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