Markovian Coupling vs. Conductance for the Jerrum-Sinclair Chain

Kumar, Anil VS and Ramesh, H (1999) Markovian Coupling vs. Conductance for the Jerrum-Sinclair Chain. In: 40th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science,1999, 17-19 October, New York, 241 -251.

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Abstract

We show that no Markovian coupling argument can prove rapid mixing of the Jerrum-Sinclair Markov chain for sampling almost uniformly from the set of perfect and near perfect matchings of a given graph. In particular, we show that there exists a bipartite graph G such that any Markovian coupling argument on the Jerrum-Sinclair Markov chain for G must necessarily take time exponential in the number of vertices in G. This holds even when the coupling argument is time-variant, i.e., the transition probabilities used by the coupling process depend upon the history of the process. In contrast, the above Markov chain on G has been shown to mix in polynomial time using conductance arguments.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:24
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/5771

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