Approximately counting bases of bicircular matroids

08/28/2018
by   Heng Guo, et al.
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We give a fully polynomial-time randomised approximation scheme (FPRAS) for the number of bases in a bicircular matroids. This is a natural class of matroids for which counting bases exactly is #P-hard and yet approximate counting can be done efficiently.

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