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Permanents, alpha-permanents and Sinkhorn balancing

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Author(s)

F Sullivan, Isabel M. Beichl

Abstract

The method of Sinkhorn balancing that starts with a non-negative square matrix and iterates to produce a related doubly stochastic matrix has been used with some success to estimate the values of the permanent in some cases of physical interest, However it is often claimed that Sinkhorn balancing is slow to converge and hence not useful for efficient computation. In this paper we ex[plain how some simple low cost pre-processing allows one to guarantee that Singhorn balancing always converges linearly. We illustrate this approach by efficiently and accurately computing permanents and alpha-permanents of some previously studied matrices.
Citation
Computational Statistics
Volume
29
Issue
9

Keywords

permanent, alpha-permanent, Sinkhorn balancing, sequential importance sampling

Citation

Sullivan, F. and Beichl, I. (2014), Permanents, alpha-permanents and Sinkhorn balancing, Computational Statistics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-014-0506-1, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=913293 (Accessed November 13, 2024)

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Created June 27, 2014, Updated October 12, 2021