English
Related papers

Related papers: Extending Monte Carlo Methods to Factor Graphs wit…

200 papers

This work is concerned with the prime factor decomposition (PFD) of strong product graphs. A new quasi-linear time algorithm for the PFD with respect to the strong product for arbitrary, finite, connected, undirected graphs is derived.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Marc Hellmuth

We describe and analyze some Monte Carlo methods for manifolds in Euclidean space defined by equality and inequality constraints. First, we give an MCMC sampler for probability distributions defined by un-normalized densities on such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Emilio Zappa , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon , Jonathan Goodman

This paper provides an accurate method to obtain the bidiagonal factorization of many generalized Pascal matrices, which in turn can be used to compute with high relative accuracy the eigenvalues, singular values and inverses of these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Jorge Delgado , Héctor Orera , Juan Manuel Peña

In this review, we address the use of Monte Carlo methods for approximating definite integrals of the form $Z = \int L(x) d P(x)$, where $L$ is a target function (often a likelihood) and $P$ a finite measure. We present vertical-likelihood…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-24 Nicholas G. Polson , James G. Scott

We present a simple approach to the fixed phase method in Quantum Monte Carlo. This applies to electrons in molecules and electron gas and is straightforwardly extended to the Schr\"odinger equation with magnetic field.

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 F. Delyon , B. Bernu

We study Monte Carlo calculations of the effective potential for a scalar field theory using three techniques. One of these is a new method proposed and tested for the first time. In each case we extract the renormalised quantities of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-03-04 A. Ardekani , A. G. Williams

We demonstrate a scaling method for non-Markovian Monte Carlo wave-function simulations used to study open quantum systems weakly coupled to their environments. We derive a scaling equation, from which the result for the expectation values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Piilo , S. Maniscalco , A. Messina , F. Petruccione

Approximate inference in probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) can be grouped into deterministic methods and Monte-Carlo-based methods. The former can often provide accurate and rapid inferences, but are typically associated with biases…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-09 Fredrik Lindsten , Jouni Helske , Matti Vihola

For a long time, people have been focusing on how to extract more information, such as off-diagonal observables, from the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation of the partition function, but there have been numerous difficulties, and many of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 Zhiyan Wang , Zhe Wang , Bin-Bin Mao , Zheng Yan

When a Monte Carlo algorithm is used to evaluate a physical observable A, it is possible to slightly modify the algorithm so that it evaluates simultaneously A and the derivatives $\partial$ $\varsigma$ A of A with respect to each…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 J-M Tregan , S. Blanco , J. Dauchet , M Hafi , R. Fournier , L Ibarrart , P Lapeyre , N Villefranque

We introduce a stacking version of the Monte Carlo algorithm in the context of option pricing. Introduced recently for aeronautic computations, this simple technique, in the spirit of current machine learning ideas, learns control variates…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-27 Antoine Jacquier , Emma R. Malone , Mugad Oumgari

The properties of ideal tri-functional dendrimers with forty-five, ninety-three and one hundred and eighty-nine branches are investigated. Three methods are employed to calculate the mean-square radius of gyration, $g$-ratios, asphericity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-25 M. Jura , M. Bishop , B. Thrope , R. de Regt

Given a factorable function f, we propose a procedure that constructs a concave underestimator of f that is tight at a given point. These underestimators can be used to generate intersection cuts. A peculiarity of these underestimators is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Felipe Serrano

Disordered and frustrated graphical systems are ubiquitous in physics, biology, and information science. For models on complete graphs or random graphs, deep understanding has been achieved through the mean-field replica and cavity methods.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-10 Haijun Zhou , Chuang Wang , Jing-Qing Xiao , Zedong Bi

In this study, we give an extension of Montanaro's arXiv/archive:1504.06987 quantum Monte Carlo method, tailored for computing expected values of random variables that exhibit infinite variance. This addresses a challenge in analyzing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jose Blanchet , Mario Szegedy , Guanyang Wang

Global sensitivity analysis is a powerful set of ideas and heuristics for understanding the importance and interplay between uncertain parameters in a computational model. Such a model is characterized by a set of input parameters and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Chun Yui Wong , Pranay Seshadri , Geoffrey T. Parks

We introduce the partition function of edge-colored graph homomorphisms, of which the usual partition function of graph homomorphisms is a specialization, and present an efficient algorithm to approximate it in a certain domain. Corollaries…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Alexander Barvinok , Pablo Soberón

We present a method based on the Path Integral Monte Carlo formalism for the calculation of ground-state time correlation functions in quantum systems. The key point of the method is the consideration of time as a complex variable whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Riccardo Rota , Joaquim Casulleras , Ferran Mazzanti , Jordi Boronat

The graphical realization of a given degree sequence and given partition adjacency matrix simultaneously is a relevant problem in data driven modeling of networks. Here we formulate common generalizations of this problem and the Exact…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Eva Czabarka , Laszlo A. Szekely , Zoltan Toroczkai , Shanise Walker

Dimensionality reduction and matrix factorization techniques are important and useful machine-learning techniques in many fields. Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is particularly useful for spectral analysis and image processing in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 Guangtun Zhu