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
Shuji Kijima, Nobutaka Shimizu, Takeharu Shiraga,
"How many vertices does a random walk miss in a network with moderately increasing the number of vertices?,"
in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2021), 106-122.
Keywords: cover time, dynamic graph, evolving graph, temporal graph
Nobutaka Shimizu, Takeharu Shiraga,
"Quasi-majority functional voting on expander graphs,"
in Proceedings of the 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020), 97:1-97:19.
Keywords: distributed voting, consensus problem, expander graph, Markov chain
Nobutaka Shimizu, Takeharu Shiraga,
"Phase transitions of Best-of-two and Best-of-three on stochastic block models,"
in Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2019), 32:1-32:17.
Keywords: distributed voting, consensus problem, random graph
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