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Sampling from nonsmooth target probability distributions is essential in various applications, including the Bayesian Lasso. We propose a splitting-based sampling algorithm for the time-implicit discretization of the probability flow for…

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We investigate the nature of the low-energy, large-scale excitations in the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass with Gaussian couplings and free boundary conditions, by studying the response of the ground state to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Matteo Palassini , Frauke Liers , Michael Juenger , A. P. Young

We introduce some applications of Stein's method in the high temperature analysis of spin glasses. Stein's method allows the direct analysis of the Gibbs measure without having to create a cavity. Another advantage is that it gives limit…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-02 Sourav Chatterjee

A dielectric medium consisting of roughly polarized molecules is treated as a 3D disordered spin system (spin glass). A microscopic approach for the study of statistical properties of this system on micrometer space scale and nanosecond…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashot S. Gevorkyan , Chin-Kun Hu

We provide a perfect sampling algorithm for the hard-sphere model on subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with expected running time linear in the volume under the assumption of strong spatial mixing. A large number of perfect and approximate sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Konrad Anand , Andreas Göbel , Marcus Pappik , Will Perkins

We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our work is to approximating the partition function $Z$ of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Daniel Stefankovic , Santosh Vempala , Eric Vigoda

Drawing from the theory of stochastic differential equations, we introduce a novel sampling method for known distributions and a new algorithm for diffusion generative models with unknown distributions. Our approach is inspired by the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Xicheng Zhang

We consider spin systems on the integer lattice graph $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with nearest-neighbor interactions. We develop a combinatorial framework for establishing that exponential decay with distance of spin correlations, specifically the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Antonio Blanca , Pietro Caputo , Alistair Sinclair , Eric Vigoda

We present a numerical analysis of the entropy rate and statistical complexity related to the spin flip dynamics of the 2D Ising Ferromagnet at different temperatures T. We follow an information theoretic approach and test three different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-02 O. Melchert , A. K. Hartmann

The growing correlation length observed in supercooled liquids as their temperature is lowered has been studied with the aid of a single occupancy cell model. This model becomes more accurate as the density of the system is increased. One…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-17 Christopher J. Fullerton , M. A. Moore

We present numerical results that allow a precise determination of the transition point and of the critical exponents of the 4D Edwards-Anderson Spin Glass with binary quenched random couplings. We show that the low T phase undergoes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Marinari , F. Zuliani

Inference and learning of graphical models are both well-studied problems in statistics and machine learning that have found many applications in science and engineering. However, exact inference is intractable in general graphical models,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-04 Jason K. Johnson , Diane Oyen , Michael Chertkov , Praneeth Netrapalli

We derive an exact path integral formulation for the partition function for the Ising model using a mapping between spins and poles of a Laurent expansion for a field on the complex plane. The advantage in using this formulation for the…

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Identifying the underlying models in a set of data points contaminated by noise and outliers, leads to a highly complex multi-model fitting problem. This problem can be posed as a clustering problem by the projection of higher order…

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An introduction to the Propp-Wilson method of coupling-from-the-past for the Ising model is presented. It enables one to obtain exact samples from the equilibrium spin distribution for ferromagnetic interactions. Both uniform and random…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark A. Novotny

We introduce an exact classical algorithm for simulating Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS). The complexity of the algorithm is exponential in the number of photons detected, which is itself a random variable. For a fixed number of modes, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Nicolás Quesada , Juan Miguel Arrazola

We investigate the performance of flat-histogram methods based on a multicanonical ensemble and the Wang-Landau algorithm for the three-dimensional +/- J spin glass by measuring round-trip times in the energy range between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Alder , S. Trebst , A. K. Hartmann , M. Troyer

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we have studied isothermal aging of three-dimensional Ising spin-glass model focusing on quasi-equilibrium behavior of the spin auto-correlation function. Weak violation of the time translational invariance in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Tatsuo Komori , Hajime Yoshino , Hajime Takayama

Finding the ground state of Ising spin glasses is notoriously difficult due to disorder and frustration. Often, this challenge is framed as a combinatorial optimization problem, for which a common strategy employs simulated annealing, a…

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