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A Perfect Sampler for Hypergraph Independent Sets

Data Structures and Algorithms 2022-09-14 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The problem of uniformly sampling hypergraph independent sets is revisited. We design an efficient perfect sampler for the problem under a condition similar to that of the asymmetric Lov\'asz Local Lemma. When applied to dd-regular kk-uniform hypergraphs on nn vertices, our sampler terminates in expected O(nlogn)O(n\log n) time provided dc2k/2/kd\le c\cdot 2^{k/2}/k for some constant c>0c>0. If in addition the hypergraph is linear, the condition can be weaken to dc2k/k2d\le c\cdot 2^{k}/k^2 for some constant c>0c>0, matching the rapid mixing condition for Glauber dynamics in Hermon, Sly and Zhang [HSZ19].

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@article{arxiv.2205.02050,
  title  = {A Perfect Sampler for Hypergraph Independent Sets},
  author = {Guoliang Qiu and Yanheng Wang and Chihao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02050},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

fixed an error in the definition of the witness graphs; added analysis for linear hypergraphs; the bound in Theorem 2 is affected by a 1/k factor

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