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Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) is an important type of supervised machine learning model with inherent uncertainty measure in its predictions. We propose a new framework, nuGPR, to address the well-known challenge of high computation…

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We consider Monte Carlo simulations of classical spin models of statistical mechanics using the massively parallel architecture provided by graphics processing units (GPUs). We discuss simulations of models with discrete and continuous…

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Efficient sampling of two-dimensional statistical physics systems remains a central challenge in computational statistical physics. Traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, including cluster algorithms, provide only partial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Tao Chen , Jingtong Zhang , Jing Liu , Youjin Deng , Pan Zhang

It was recently shown that path integral Monte Carlo can be used to directly compute partition functions of Hamiltonians with vibronic coupling [J. Chem. Phys. 148, 194110 (2018)]. While the importance sampling Monte Carlo integration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Neil Raymond , Pierre-Nicholas Roy , Marcel Nooijen

Molecular dynamics (MD) is an important research tool extensively applied in materials science. Running MD on a graphics processing unit (GPU) is an attractive new approach for accelerating MD simulations. Currently, GPU implementations of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Qing Hou , Min Li , Yulu Zhou , Jiechao Cui , Zhenguo Cui , Jun Wang

Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , Ruijiang Li , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Current trends in parallel processors call for the design of efficient massively parallel algorithms for scientific computing. Parallel algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic ensembles of particles have received little…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Joshua A. Anderson , Eric Jankowski , Thomas L. Grubb , Michael Engel , Sharon C. Glotzer

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with high accuracy have been increasingly popular for their capability to bridge the gap between atomistic modeling and mesoscale phenomena. Both machine learning potentials and enhanced sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Haoting Zhang , Qiuhan Jia , Zhennan Zhang , Yijie Zhu , Zhongwei Zhang , Junjie Wang , Jiuyang Shi , Zheyong Fan , Jian Sun

Overcoming the time scale limitations of atomistics can be achieved by switching from the state-space representation of Molecular Dynamics (MD) to a statistical-mechanics-based representation in phase space, where approximations such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Shashank Saxena , Jan-Hendrik Bastek , Miguel Spinola , Prateek Gupta , Dennis M. Kochmann

The realized stochastic volatility (RSV) model that utilizes the realized volatility as additional information has been proposed to infer volatility of financial time series. We consider the Bayesian inference of the RSV model by the Hybrid…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-28 Tetsuya Takaishi

Cancer is a primary cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The radiotherapy plays a more and more important role in cancer treatment. In the radiotherapy, the dose distribution maps in patient need to be calculated and evaluated for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Zhao Peng , Hongming Shan , Tianyu Liu , Xi Pei , Jieping Zhou , Ge Wang , X. George Xu

RUMD is a general purpose, high-performance molecular dynamics (MD) simulation package running on graphical processing units (GPU's). RUMD addresses the challenge of utilizing the many-core nature of modern GPU hardware when simulating…

We present how we ported the Hybrid Monte Carlo implementation in the tmLQCD software suite to GPUs through offloading its most expensive parts to the QUDA library. We discuss our motivations and some of the technical challenges that we…

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Monte Carlo methods are state-of-the-art when it comes to dosimetric computations in radiotherapy. However, the execution time of these methods suffers in high-collisional regimes. We address this problem by introducing a kinetic-diffusion…

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The validation, verification, and uncertainty quantification of computationally expensive theoretical models of quantum many-body systems require the construction of fast and accurate emulators. In this work, we develop emulators for…

Gibbs-ensemble Monte Carlo (GEMC) is a powerful method for calculating the gas-liquid binodals of simple models and small molecules, but is too demanding computationally for realistic models of proteins. Here we discover that the main…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sanbo Qin , Huan-Xiang Zhou

A simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for the simulation of the passage of low-energy gamma rays and electrons through any material medium is presented. The algorithm includes several approximations that accelerate the simulation while…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Víctor Moya , Jaime Rosado , Fernando Arqueros

Neural Network Variational Monte Carlo (NNVMC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving quantum many-body problems by combining variational Monte Carlo with expressive neural-network wave-function ans\"atze. Although NNVMC can…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengze Xiao , Xuanzhe Ding , Yuyang Lou , Lixue Cheng , Chaojian Li

Monte Carlo simulations of the transport of protons in human tissue have been deployed on graphics processing units (GPUs) with impressive results. To provide a more complete treatment of non-elastic nuclear interactions in these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 H. Wan Chan Tseung , C. Beltran

Around half of all cancer patients, world-wide, will receive some form of radiotherapy (RT) as part of their treatment. And yet, despite the rapid advance of high-throughput screening to identify successful chemotherapy drug candidates,…

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