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TR22-008 | 14th January 2022 11:21

#### Approximating Large Powers of Stochastic Matrices in Small Space

TR22-008
Authors: Gil Cohen, Dean Doron, Ori Sberlo
Publication: 14th January 2022 11:34
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Abstract:

We give a deterministic space-efficient algorithm for approximating powers of stochastic matrices. On input a $w \times w$ stochastic matrix $A$, our algorithm approximates $A^{n}$ in space $\widetilde{O}(\log n + \sqrt{\log n}\cdot \log w)$ to within high accuracy. This improves upon the seminal work by Saks and Zhou (FOCS'95), that requires $O(\log^{3/2}n + \sqrt{\log n} \cdot \log w)$ space, in the regime $n \gg w$.

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Comment #1 to TR22-008 | 15th November 2022 11:28

#### This work has been subsumed

Authors: Gil Cohen
Accepted on: 15th November 2022 11:28
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Comment:

This work has been subsumed by the paper "Approximating Iterated Multiplication of Stochastic Matrices in Small Space" (https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2022/149/).

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