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Gibbs rapidly samples colorings of \(G(n, d/n)\)



Abstract: Gibbs sampling also known as Glauber dynamics is a popular technique for sampling high dimensional distributions defined on graphs. Of special interest is the behavior of Gibbs sampling on the ErdH{o}s-R'enyi random graph G(n,d/n). While the average degree in G(n,d/n) is d(1-o(1)), it contains many nodes of degree of order logn/loglogn. The existence of nodes of almost logarithmic degrees implies that for many natural distributions defined on G(n,p) such as uniform coloring or the Ising model, the mixing time of Gibbs sampling is at least n1+Omega(1/loglogn). High degree nodes pose a technical challenge in proving polynomial time mixing of the dynamics for many models including coloring. In this work consider sampling q-colorings and show that for every d<infty there exists q(d)<infty such that for all qgeqq(d) the mixing time of Gibbs sampling on G(n,d/n) is polynomial in n with high probability. Our results are the first polynomial time mixing results proven for the coloring model on G(n,d/n) for d > 1 where the number of colors does not depend on n. They extend to much more general families of graphs which are sparse in some average sense and to much more general interactions. The results also generalize to the hard-core model at low fugacity and to general models of soft constraints at high temperatures.


The paper studies so-called Gibb's sampling, a popular technique for sampling high dimensional distributions defined on graphs. Of special interest is the behavior of Gibbs sampling on the Erdős--Rényi random graph \(G(n; d/n)\), where each edge is chosen independently with probability \(d/n\), \(d\) is fixed. The authors give the first rapid convergence result of Gibbs samplers for the coloring model on Erdős--Rényi random graphs in terms of the average degree and the number of colors only. These results yield the first fully polynomial randomized approximation scheme for sampling the coloring distribution in this case. Some related works and a sketch of the proof are given in the introduction. The remaining sections give a more detailed proof.











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