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Spectral Diffusion for Sampling on ${\rm SU}(N)$

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2025-12-24 v1

Abstract

Although ensemble generation remains a central challenge in lattice field theory simulations, recent advances in generative modeling may offer a path to accelerated sampling in these contexts. In this work, we implement a framework for efficiently training diffusion models acting on SU(N){\rm SU}(N) degrees of freedom, adapting the traditional score matching technique to the group manifold. We demonstrate that our models can effectively reproduce several target densities, resulting in precise unbiased expectation values. These results mark a step for diffusion models towards modeling full SU(N){\rm SU}(N) lattice field theories, including lattice Quantum Chromodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2512.19877,
  title  = {Spectral Diffusion for Sampling on ${\rm SU}(N)$},
  author = {Gurtej Kanwar and Octavio Vega},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.19877},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures; Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2025), 2-8 November 2025, Mumbai, India. Code available at https://github.com/ovega14/sun_diffusion/

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