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We discuss recent developments regarding the use of kernels in complex Langevin simulations. In particular, we outline how a kernel can be used to solve the problem of wrong convergence in a simple toy model. Since conventional correctness…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-17 Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

A positive representation for a set of complex densities is constructed. In particular, complex measures on a direct product of U(1) groups are studied. After identifying general conditions which such representations should satisfy, several…

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We describe a simple stochastic method, so-called Langevin approach, which enables one to extract evolution equations of stochastic variables from a set of measurements. Our method is parameter-free and it is based on the nonlinear Langevin…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-02-19 Nico Reinke , André Fuchs , Wided Medjroubi , Pedro G. Lind , Matthias Wächter , Joachim Peinke

We introduce a projected complex Langevin (CL) numerical sampling method -- a fictitious Langevin dynamics scheme that uses numerical projection to sample a constrained stationary distribution with highly oscillatory character. Despite the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-04 Ethan C. McGarrigle , Hector D. Ceniceros , Glenn H. Fredrickson

In the study of natural and artificial complex systems, responses that are not completely determined by the considered decision variables are commonly modelled probabilistically, resulting in response distributions varying across decision…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-07 Athénaïs Gautier , David Ginsbourger , Guillaume Pirot

This review explores the Complex Langevin Method (CLM), a stochastic quantization technique designed to address the sign problem in quantum field theories with complex actions. Beginning with foundational principles, the review examines the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-04 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

We present a simulation strategy for the real-time dynamics of quantum fields, inspired by reinforcement learning. It builds on the complex Langevin approach, which it amends with system specific prior information, a necessary prerequisite…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-13 Daniel Alvestad , Alexander Rothkopf , Dénes Sexty

In molecular dynamics, statistics of transitions, such as the mean transition time, are macroscopic observables which provide important dynamical information on the underlying microscopic stochastic process. A direct estimation using…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Tony Lelièvre , Mouad Ramil , Julien Reygner

A new approach for the analysis of Langevin-type stochastic processes in the presence of strong measurement noise is presented. For the case of Gaussian distributed, exponentially correlated, measurement noise it is possible to extract the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-05-29 Bernd Lehle

Forecasting the evolution of contagion dynamics is still an open problem to which mechanistic models only offer a partial answer. To remain mathematically or computationally tractable, these models must rely on simplifying assumptions,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-18 Charles Murphy , Edward Laurence , Antoine Allard

Analogue to the well-known Langevin Monte Carlo method, in this article we provide a method to sample from a target distribution \(\pi\) by simulating a solution of a stochastic differential equation. Hereby, the stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-15 David Oechsler

Recently there has been remarkable progress in the complex Langevin method, which aims at solving the complex action problem by complexifying the dynamical variables in the original path integral. In particular, a new technique called the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-30 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

The ability to describe strongly interacting matter at finite temperature and baryon density provides the means to determine, for instance, the equation of state of QCD at non-zero baryon chemical potential. From a theoretical point of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-30 Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger

Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers based on discretizations of (overdamped) Langevin dynamics are commonly used in the Bayesian inference and computational statistical physics literature to estimate high-dimensional integrals. One can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Tony Lelièvre , Régis Santet , Gabriel Stoltz

Diffusion models have successfully been applied to generative tasks in various continuous domains. However, applying diffusion to discrete categorical data remains a non-trivial task. Moreover, generation in continuous domains often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jaesung Tae

Constrained sampling is an important and challenging task in computational statistics, concerned with generating samples from a distribution under certain constraints. There are numerous types of algorithm aimed at this task, ranging from…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-01 Neil K. Chada , Lu Yu

We present a numerical method to produce stochastic dynamics according to the generalized Langevin equation with a non-stationary memory kernel. This type of dynamics occurs when a microscopic system with an explicitly time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-30 Christoph Widder , Fabian Glatzel , Tanja Schilling

A simple integral relation between a complex weight and the corresponding positive distribution is derived by introducing a second complex variable. Together with the positivity and normalizability conditions, this sum rule allows to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-14 Jacek Wosiek

Based on the probability distribution observed in complex systems and an assumption that the probability distributions of complex systems satisfy a new generalized multiplication, it is proved that the statistical theory of complex systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jincan Chen , Tie Liu , Zhifu Huang , Guozhen Su

There are problems in physics and particularly in field theory which are defined by complex valued weight functions $e^{-S}$ where $S$ is a polynomial action $S: R^n \rightarrow C $. The conditions under which a convergent complex Langevin…

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