Deterministic algorithms for counting bases of a matroid

Series
Lorentzian Polynomials Seminar
Time
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 2:50pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Mohit Singh – Georgia Tech – mohit.singh@isye.gatech.eduhttps://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~msingh94/
Organizer
Trevor Gunn

We will discuss a deterministic, polynomial (in the rank) time approximation algorithm for counting the bases of a given matroid and for counting common bases between two matroids of the same rank. This talk follows the paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00929) of Nima Anari, Shayan Oveis Gharan, and Cynthia Vinzant.