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Alistair Sinclair

Researcher at University of California, Berkeley

Publications -  153
Citations -  10724

Alistair Sinclair is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ising model & Markov chain. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 149 publications receiving 10091 citations. Previous affiliations of Alistair Sinclair include International Computer Science Institute & University of California.

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Approximating the permanent

TL;DR: A randomised approximation scheme for the permanent of a 0–1s presented, demonstrating that the matchings chain is rapidly mixing, apparently the first such result for a Markov chain with genuinely c...
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A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the permanent of a matrix with nonnegative entries

TL;DR: A polynomial-time randomized algorithm for estimating the permanent of an arbitrary n × n matrix with nonnegative entries computes an approximation that is within arbitrarily small specified relative error of the true value of the permanent.
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Approximate counting, uniform generation and rapidly mixing Markov chains

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that for self-reducible structures, almost uniform generation is possible in polynomial time provided only that randomised approximate counting to within some arbitrary polynomial factor is possible.
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Polynomial-time approximation algorithms for the Ising model

TL;DR: A randomised algorithm which evaluates the partition function of an arbitrary ferromagnetic Ising system to any specified degree of accuracy is presented.
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The Markov chain Monte Carlo method: an approach to approximate counting and integration

TL;DR: The introduction of analytical tools with the aim of permitting the analysis of Monte Carlo algorithms for classical problems in statistical physics has spurred the development of new approximation algorithms for a wider class of problems in combinatorial enumeration and optimization.