On the rate of convergence of deterministic and randomized RAS matrix scaling algorithms

On the rate of convergence of deterministic and randomized RAS matrix scaling algorithms

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Article ID: iaor1995704
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
Start Page Number: 237
End Page Number: 244
Publication Date: Dec 1993
Journal: Operations Research Letters
Authors: ,
Keywords: combinatorial analysis
Abstract:

The authors consider the well-known RAS algorithm for the problem of positive matrix scaling. They give a new bound on the number of iterations of the method for scaling a given d-dimensional matrix A to a prescribed accuracy. Although the RAS method is not a polynomial-time algorithm even for d=2, the present bound implies that for any dimension d the method is a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme. The authors also present a randomized variant of the algorithm whose (expected) running time improves that of the deterministic method by a factor of d.

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