Publications

Refereed journal articles

Nobutaka Shimizu, Takeharu Shiraga,
"Quasi-majority functional voting on expander graphs,"
Random Structures & Algorithms, to appear.
Keywords: distributed voting, consensus problem, expander graph, Markov chain

Nobutaka Shimizu, Takeharu Shiraga,
"Reversible random walks on dynamic graphs,"
Random Structures & Algorithms, 63(4), 1100-1136 (2023).
Keywords: dynamic graph, Markov chain, random walk

Nobutaka Shimizu, Takeharu Shiraga,
"Phase transitions of Best‐of‐two and Best‐of‐three on stochastic block models,"
Random Structures & Algorithms, 59(1), 96-140 (2021).
Keywords: consensus problem, distributed voting, random graph

Yuya Higashikawa, Keiko Imai, Takeharu Shiraga, Noriyoshi Sukegawa, Yusuke Yokosuka,
"Minimum point-overlap labelling,"
Optimization Methods and Software, 36(2-3), 316-325 (2021).
Keywords: map labelling, air-traffic control, approximation algorithms

Takeharu Shiraga,
"The cover time of deterministic random walks for general transition probabilities,"
Theoretical Computer Science, 815, 153-162 (2020).
Keywords: rotor-router model, stack walk, multiple random walks, mixing time, cover time

Colin Cooper, Andrew McDowell, Tomasz Radzik, Nicolas Rivera, Takeharu Shiraga,
"Dispersion processes,"
Random Structures & Algorithms, 53(4), 561-585 (2018).
Keywords: random processes on graphs, dispersion of particles, random walk

Takeharu Shiraga, Yukiko Yamauchi, Shuji Kijima, Masafumi Yamashita,
"Deterministic random walks for rapidly mixing chains,"
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 32(3), 2180-2193 (2018).
Keywords: rotor-router model, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), mixing time

Takeharu Shiraga, Yukiko Yamauchi, Shuji Kijima, Masafumi Yamashita,
"Total variation discrepancy of deterministic random walks for ergodic Markov chains,"
Theoretical Computer Science, 699, 63-74 (2017).
Keywords: rotor router model, Propp machine, load balancing, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), mixing time

Refereed conference pepars

Colin Cooper, Tomasz Radzik, Nicolas Rivera, Takeharu Shiraga,

"Fast plurality consensus in regular expanders,"
in Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017), 13:1-13:16.
Keywords: plurality consensus, regular expanders

Takeharu Shiraga, Yukiko Yamauchi, Shuji Kijima, Masafumi Yamashita,
"Total variation discrepancy of deterministic random walks for ergodic Markov chains,"

in Proceedings of the meeting of Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO 2016), 138-148.
Keywords: rotor router model, Propp machine, load balancing, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), mixing time

Colin Cooper, Robert Elsasser, Tomasz Radzik, Nicolas Rivera, Takeharu Shiraga,

"Fast consensus for voting on general expander graphs,"

in Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2015), 248-262.
Keywords: random walk, transition matrix, random graph, edge weight, regular graph

Colin Cooper, Tomasz Radzik, Nicolas Rivera, Takeharu Shiraga,

"Coalescing walks on rotor-router systems,"

in Proceedings of the 22nd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2015), 444-458.
Keywords: regular graph, cyclic order, cover time, vertex pointer, coalescence time

Takeharu Shiraga, Yukiko Yamauchi, Shuji Kijima, Masafumi Yamashita,

"L∞-discrepancy analysis of polynomial-time deterministic samplers emulating rapidly mixing chains,"

in Proceedings of the 20th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2014), 25-36.
Keywords: rotor-router model, #P-complete, Markov chain Monte Carlo, mixing time