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Random walks on the vertices of transportation polytopes with constant number of sources

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Random walks on the vertices of transportation polytopes with constant number of sources
We consider the problem of uniformly sampling a vertex of a transportation polytope with m sources and n destinations, where m is a constant. We analyse a natural random walk on the edge-vertex graph of the polytope. The analysis makes use of the multi-commodity flow technique of Sinclair [30] together with ideas developed by Morris and Sinclair [24, 25] for the knapsack problem, and Cryan et al. [3] for contingency tables, to establish that the random walk approaches the uniform distribution in time nO(m2 ) .
Mary Cryan, Martin E. Dyer, Haiko Müller, Lee
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where SODA
Authors Mary Cryan, Martin E. Dyer, Haiko Müller, Leen Stougie
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