activity
20242026
collaborators
Showing 2026Show all

5 papers · 1 filter

math.CO2026

Local large deviations for triangles in sparse random graphs

Jade Lintott, Will Perkins, Corrine Yap

We revisit a classic topic in probabilistic combinatorics, the lower-tail large-deviation problem for triangles in the random graph . Here we aim for first-order asymptotic…

cs.DS2026

Structural Corrections to the Bethe Approximation of the Permanent

Ijay Narang, Will Perkins

We study deterministic approximation algorithms for the permanent of a nonnegative matrix through the Bethe permanent, an approximation computable in polynomial time. The tight ana…

cs.DS2026

The Hard-Core Model on Bipartite Spectral Expanders: Counting and Sampling at All Fugacities

Ijay Narang, Will Perkins

We study approximate counting and sampling algorithms for the hard-core model on -regular bipartite graphs under a spectral expansion condition. Let be the biadjacency mat…

cs.DS2026

Computational Thresholds for Balanced and Fixed-Slice Independent Sets in Bipartite Graphs

Ijay Narang, Will Perkins, Yuzhou Wang +1

Motivated by recent work of Kocurek, Oveis Gharan, and Tjowasi, which gives an efficient sampling algorithm for the hard-core model on random regular bipartite graphs by decomposin…

math.CO2026

Sampling Colorings with Fixed Color Class Sizes

Aiya Kuchukova, Will Perkins, Xavier Povill

In 1970 Hajnal and Szemerédi proved a conjecture of Erdös that for a graph with maximum degree , there exists an equitable coloring; that is a coloring where color class s…