Deterministic Approximation of Random Walks via Queries in Graphs of Unbounded Size
Deterministic Approximation of Random Walks via Queries in Graphs of Unbounded Size
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通过无限大小图中的查询实现随机游走的确定性逼近
DOI:
10.1137/1.9781611977066.5
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发表时间:
2022
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通讯作者:
Vadhan, Salil
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作者:
Pyne, Edward;Vadhan, Salil
Consider the following computational problem: given a regular digraphG= (V,E), two verticesu,v∊V, and a walk lengtht∊N, estimate the probability that a random walk of lengthtfromuends atvto within ±ε. A randomized algorithm can solve this problem by carrying outO(1/ε2) random walks of lengthtfromuand outputting the fraction that end atv.In this paper, we studydeterministicalgorithms for this problem that are also restricted to carrying out walks of lengthtfromuand seeing which ones end atv. Specifically, ifGisd-regular, the algorithm is given oracle access to a functionf: [d]t→ {0,1} wheref(x) is 1 if the walk fromuspecified by the edge labels inxends atv. We assume thatGisconsistently labelled, meaning that the edges of labelifor eachi∊ [d] form a permutation onV.We show that there exists a deterministic algorithm that makes poly(dt/ε) nonadaptive queries tof, regardless of the number of vertices in the graphG. Crucially, and in contrast to the randomized algorithm, our algorithm does not simply output the average value of its queries. Indeed, Hoza, Pyne, and Vadhan (ITCS 2021) showed that any deterministic algorithm of the latter form that works for graphs of unbounded size must have query complexity at least .In the language of pseudorandomness, our result is a separation between the query complexity of “deterministic samplers” and “deterministic averaging samplers” for the class of “permutation branching programs of unbounded width”. Our separation is stronger than the prior separation of Pyne and Vadhan (CCC 2021), and has a much simpler proof (not using spectral graph theory or the Impagliazzo-Nisan-Wigderson pseudorandom generator). On the other hand, the algorithm of Pyne and Vadhan is explicit and computable in small space, whereas ours is not explicit (unless we assume the existence of an optimal explicit pseudorandom generator for permutation branching programs of bounded width).
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10.1145/3313276.3316319
发表时间:
2018
期刊:
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作者:
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期刊:
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发表时间:
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期刊:
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