2 papers
cs.DS2026
Subquadratic Counting via Perfect Marginal Sampling
Xiaoyu Chen, Zongchen Chen, Kuikui Liu +1
We study the computational complexity of approximately computing the partition function of a spin system. Techniques based on standard counting-to-sampling reductions yield $\tilde…
cs.DS2025
Locally Stationary Distributions: A Framework for Analyzing Slow-Mixing Markov Chains
Kuikui Liu, Sidhanth Mohanty, Prasad Raghavendra +2
Many natural Markov chains fail to mix to their stationary distribution in polynomially many steps. Often, this slow mixing is inevitable since it is computationally intractable to…