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A direct numerical algorithm for solving the time-nonlocal non-Markovian master equation in the second Born approximation is introduced and the range of utility of this approximation, and of the Markov approximation, is analyzed for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-06-30 Navinder Singh , Paul Brumer

I propose a new algorithm, a free energy Monte Carlo algorithm, for calculations where conventional Monte Carlo simulations struggle with ergodicity problems. The simplest version of the proposed algorithm allows for the determination of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Thill

The main challenge of large-scale numerical simulation of radiation transport is the high memory and computation time requirements of discretization methods for kinetic equations. In this work, we derive and investigate a neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Steffen Schotthöfer , M. Paul Laiu , Martin Frank , Cory D. Hauck

Recently, Sidford, Wang, Wu and Ye (2018) developed an algorithm combining variance reduction techniques with value iteration to solve discounted Markov decision processes. This algorithm has a sublinear complexity when the discount factor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Zheng Qu , Omar Saadi

The EMD algorithm, first proposed in [11], made more robust as well as more versatile in [12], is a technique that aims to decompose into their building blocks functions that are the superposition of a (reasonably) small number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Ingrid Daubechies , Jianfeng Lu , Hau-Tieng Wu

We introduce a new approach for deterministic sensitivity analysis of Markov reward processes, commonly used in cost-effectiveness analyses, via reformulation into a polynomial system. Our approach leverages cylindrical algebraic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Timothy C. Y. Chan , Muhammad Maaz

Let $K = \{0,1,...,q-1\}$. We use a special class of translation invariant measures on $K^\mathbb{Z}$ called algebraic measures to study the entropy rate of a hidden Markov processes. Under some irreducibility assumptions of the Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-30 Katy Marchand , Jaideep Mulherkar , Bruno Nachtergaele

Melting and solidification processes are often affected by natural convection of the liquid, posing a multi-physics problem involving fluid flow, convective and diffusive heat transfer, and phase-change reactions. Enthalpy methods formulate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Alexander Gary Zimmerman , Julia Kowalski

The entropy computation of Gaussian mixture distributions with a large number of components has a prohibitive computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel approach exploiting the sphere decoding concept to bound and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Su Min Kim , Tan Tai Do , Tobias J. Oechtering , Gunnar Peters

This paper deals with a splitting method applied to a conservation law model of manufacturing system incorporating yield loss. A splitting scheme has been proposed. The yield loss term is treated by solving implicitly an ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Tanmay Sarkar

We present a faster symbolic algorithm for the following central problem in probabilistic verification: Compute the maximal end-component (MEC) decomposition of Markov decision processes (MDPs). This problem generalizes the SCC…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Wolfgang Dvořák , Monika Henzinger , Alexander Svozil

Maximum entropy principle (MEP) offers an effective and unbiased approach to inferring unknown probability distributions when faced with incomplete information, while neural networks provide the flexibility to learn complex distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-04 Wuyue Yang , Liangrong Peng , Guojie Li , Liu Hong

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

Markov chains are a natural and well understood tool for describing one-dimensional patterns in time or space. We show how to infer $k$-th order Markov chains, for arbitrary $k$, from finite data by applying Bayesian methods to both…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Christopher C. Strelioff , James P. Crutchfield , Alfred W. Hubler

The basic problem in equilibrium statistical mechanics is to compute phase space average, in which Monte Carlo method plays a very important role. We begin with a review of nonlocal algorithms for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Sheng Wang

We shall revisit the conventional adiabatic or Markov approximation, which --contrary to the semiclassical case-- does not preserve the positive-definite character of the corresponding density matrix, thus leading to highly non-physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 David Taj , Rita Claudia Iotti , Fausto Rossi

Predictability of behavior has emerged an an important characteristic in many fields including biology, medicine, and marketing. Behavior can be recorded as a sequence of actions performed by an individual over a given time period. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-13 Brian Vegetabile , Jenny Molet , Tallie Z. Baram , Hal Stern

A major goal of stochastic thermodynamics is to estimate the inevitable dissipation that accompanies particular observable phenomena in an otherwise not fully accessible system. Quantitative results are often formulated as lower bounds on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-17 Malena T. Bauer , Udo Seifert , Jann van der Meer

Efficient approximation lies at the heart of large-scale machine learning problems. In this paper, we propose a novel, robust maximum entropy algorithm, which is capable of dealing with hundreds of moments and allows for computationally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-05 Diego Granziol , Binxin Ru , Stefan Zohren , Xiaowen Doing , Michael Osborne , Stephen Roberts

We consider finite element methods of multiscale type to approximate solutions for two-dimensional symmetric elliptic partial differential equations with heterogeneous $L^\infty$ coefficients. The methods are of Galerkin type and follow the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Alexandre L. Madureira , Marcus Sarkis