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The abundance of new cosmological data becoming available means that a wider range of cosmological models are testable than ever before. However, an important distinction must be made between parameter fitting and model selection. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pia Mukherjee , David Parkinson , Andrew R. Liddle

We review several parallel tempering schemes and examine their main ingredients for accuracy and efficiency. The present study covers two selection methods of temperatures and several choices for the exchange of replicas, including a recent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Malakis , T. Papakonstantinou

We present Automatic Laplace Collapsed Sampling (ALCS), a general framework for marginalising latent parameters in Bayesian models using automatic differentiation, which we combine with nested sampling to explore the hyperparameter space in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Toby Lovick , David Yallup , Will Handley

In the era of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the dramatic improvement in the spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres demands a corresponding leap forward in our ability to analyze them: atmospheric retrievals need to be performed on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Anna Lueber , Konstantin Karchev , Chloe Fisher , Matthias Heim , Roberto Trotta , Kevin Heng

A recurring pattern in "reasoning without training" is that base LLMs already assign non-trivial probability mass to correct multi-step solutions; the bottleneck is locating these modes efficiently at inference time. Power sampling provides…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tu Nguyen , Matthieu Zimmer , Rasul Tutunov , Xiaotong Ji , Haitham Bou Ammar

We propose a nonparametric estimator of multivariate joint entropy based on partitioned sample spacing (PSS). The method extends univariate spacing ideas to $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ by partitioning into localized cells and aggregating within-cell…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jungwoo Ho , Sangun Park , Soyeong Oh

Accurate, global Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) expressed in sum-of-products (SOP) form are a prerequisite for efficient high-dimensional quantum dynamics simulations using the MCTDH method. This work introduces a methodology for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Antoine Aerts

Modeling non-empirical and highly flexible interatomic potential energy surfaces (PES) using machine learning (ML) approaches is becoming popular in molecular and materials research. Training an ML-PES is typically performed in two stages:…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-05 Suresh Kondati Natarajan , Miguel A. Caro

Nested space-filling designs are nested designs with attractive low-dimensional stratification. Such designs are gaining popularity in statistics, applied mathematics and engineering. Their applications include multi-fidelity computer…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-29 Fasheng Sun , Min-Qian Liu , Peter Z. G. Qian

A general method is presented for modeling high entropy alloys as ensembles of randomly sampled, ordered configurations on a given lattice. Statistical mechanics is applied post hoc to derive the ensemble properties as a function of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Andrew Novick , Quan Nguyen , Roman Garnett , Eric Toberer , Vladan Stevanović

Nested sampling is a simulation method for approximating marginal likelihoods proposed by Skilling (2006). We establish that nested sampling has an approximation error that vanishes at the standard Monte Carlo rate and that this error is…

Computation · Statistics 2010-10-11 Nicolas Chopin , Christian Robert

Representing the reservoir as a network of discrete compartments with neighbor and non-neighbor connections is a fast, yet accurate method for analyzing oil and gas reservoirs. Automatic and rapid detection of coarse-scale compartments with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Soheil Esmaeilzadeh , Amir Salehi , Gill Hetz , Feyisayo Olalotiti-lawal , Hamed Darabi , David Castineira

The main idea of nested sampling is to substitute the high-dimensional likelihood integral over the parameter space $\Omega$ by an integral over the unit line $[0,1]$ by employing a push-forward with respect to a suitable transformation.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Doris Schittenhelm , Philipp Wacker

Monte Carlo simulations using entropic sampling to estimate the number of configurations of a given energy are a valuable alternative to traditional methods. We introduce {\it tomographic} entropic sampling, a scheme which uses multiple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ronald Dickman , A. G. Cunha-Netto

The authors present a new molecular dynamics algorithm for sampling the isothermal-isobaric ensemble. In this approach the velocities of all particles and volume degrees of freedom are rescaled by a properly chosen random factor. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-10 Giovanni Bussi , Tatyana Zykova-Timan , Michele Parrinello

This work introduces an ensemble parameter estimation framework that enables the Lumped Parameter Linear Superposition (LPLSP) method to generate reduced order thermal models from a single transient dataset. Unlike earlier implementations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Neelakantan Padmanabhan

Biclustering algorithms play a central role in the biotechnological and biomedical domains. The knowledge extracted supports the extraction of putative regulatory modules, essential to understanding diseases, aiding therapy research, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Leonardo Alexandre , Rafael S. Costa , Rui Henriques

Sampling complex free energy surfaces is one of the main challenges of modern atomistic simulation methods. The presence of kinetic bottlenecks in such surfaces often renders a direct approach useless. A popular strategy is to identify a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Luigi Bonati , Yue-Yu Zhang , Michele Parrinello

In the present work we introduce a computational approach to the absolute rovibrational quantum partition function using the path-integral formalism of quantum mechanics in combination with the nested sampling technique. The numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Bela Szekeres , Livia B. Partay , Edit Matyus

The present paper proposes an adaptive biasing potential for the computation of free energy landscapes. It is motivated by statistical learning arguments and unifies the tasks of biasing the molecular dynamics to escape free energy wells…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 I. Bilionis , P. S. Koutsourelakis