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A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for all-terminal network reliability

Data Structures and Algorithms 2021-06-16 v3

Abstract

We give a fully polynomial-time randomized approximation scheme (FPRAS) for the all-terminal network reliability problem, which is to determine the probability that, in a undirected graph, assuming each edge fails independently, the remaining graph is still connected. Our main contribution is to confirm a conjecture by Gorodezky and Pak (Random Struct. Algorithms, 2014), that the expected running time of the "cluster-popping" algorithm in bi-directed graphs is bounded by a polynomial in the size of the input.

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@article{arxiv.1709.08561,
  title  = {A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for all-terminal network reliability},
  author = {Heng Guo and Mark Jerrum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.08561},
  year   = {2021}
}

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accepted to SICOMP

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