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Lattice rules are among the most prominently studied quasi-Monte Carlo methods to approximate multivariate integrals. A rank-1 lattice rule to approximate an $s$-dimensional integral is fully specified by its generating vector $\mathbf{z}…

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We study the sample median of independently generated quasi-Monte Carlo estimators based on randomized digital nets and prove it approximates the target integral value at almost the optimal convergence rate for various function spaces. In…

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High dimensional integrals can be approximated well by quasi-Monte Carlo methods. However, determining the number of function values needed to obtain the desired accuracy is difficult without some upper bound on an appropriate semi-norm of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Fred J. Hickernell , Lluís Antoni Jiménez Rugama , Da Li

We take advantage of recent improvements in the grand canonical Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm, to perform a precision study of the single-particle gap in the hexagonal Hubbard model, with on-site electron-electron interactions. After…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Johann Ostmeyer , Evan Berkowitz , Stefan Krieg , Timo A. Lähde , Thomas Luu , Carsten Urbach

We study multivariate integration over the $s$-dimensional unit cube in a weighted space of infinitely differentiable functions. It is known from a recent result by Suzuki that there exists a good quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) rule which achieves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Josef Dick , Takashi Goda , Kosuke Suzuki , Takehito Yoshiki

We consider the problem of improving the efficiency of randomized Fourier feature maps to accelerate training and testing speed of kernel methods on large datasets. These approximate feature maps arise as Monte Carlo approximations to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-11 Haim Avron , Vikas Sindhwani , Jiyan Yang , Michael Mahoney

We study multivariate integration of functions that are invariant under the permutation (of a subset) of their arguments. Recently, in Nuyens, Suryanarayana, and Weimar (Adv. Comput. Math. (2016), 42(1):55--84), the authors derived an upper…

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Kernel herding belongs to a family of deterministic quadratures that seek to minimize the worst-case integration error over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). These quadrature rules come with strong experimental evidence that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Martin Rouault , Rémi Bardenet , Mylène Maïda

We study the efficient construction of good polynomial lattice rules, which are special instances of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. The integration rules obtained are of particular interest for the approximation of multivariate integrals…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Adrian Ebert , Peter Kritzer , Onyekachi Osisiogu , Tetiana Stepaniuk

We study equal weight numerical integration, or Quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) rules, for functions in a Sobolev space $H^s(S^d)$ with smoothness parameter $s>d/2$ defined over the unit sphere $S^d$ in $R^{d+1}$. Focusing on $N$-point sets that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-24 Johann S. Brauchart , Edward B. Saff , Ian H. Sloan , Rob S. Womersley

We study the quasi-uniformity properties of digital nets, a class of quasi-Monte Carlo point sets. Quasi-uniformity is a space-filling property used for instance in experimental designs and radial basis function approximation. However, it…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Josef Dick , Takashi Goda , Kosuke Suzuki

Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) methods estimate the mean of a random variable by sampling an integrand at $n$ equidistributed points. For scrambled digital nets, the resulting variance is typically $\tilde O(n^{-\theta})$ where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Aadit Jain , Fred J. Hickernell , Art B. Owen , Aleksei G. Sorokin

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are being adopted in statistical applications due to the increasingly challenging nature of numerical integrals that are now routinely encountered. For integrands with $d$-dimensions and derivatives of order…

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Describing correlated electron systems near phase transitions has been a major challenge in computational condensed-matter physics. In this paper, we apply highly accurate fixed node quantum Monte Carlo techniques, which directly work with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-10 Li Chen , Lucas K. Wagner

In this paper, we study the approximation of $d$-dimensional $\rho$-weighted integrals over unbounded domains $\mathbb{R}_+^d$ or $\mathbb{R}^d$ using a special change of variables, so that quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) or sparse grid rules can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Peter Kritzer , Friedrich Pillichshammer , Leszek Plaskota , G. W. Wasilkowski

This paper investigates the construction of space-filling designs for computer experiments. The space-filling property is characterized by the covering and separation radii of a design, which are integrated through the unified criterion of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-18 Naoki Sakai , Takashi Goda

Variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an ab-initio method for solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation that is exact in principle, but limited by the flexibility of the available ansatzes in practice. The recently introduced deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Zeno Schätzle , Jan Hermann , Frank Noé

Machine-learning (ML) ans\"atze have greatly expanded the accuracy and reach of variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations, in particular when exploring the manifold quantum phenomena exhibited by spin systems. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Manuel Gallego , Sebastián Roca-Jerat , David Zueco , Jesús Carrete

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) is a powerful method for evaluating high-dimensional integrals. However, its use is typically limited to distributions where direct sampling is straightforward, such as the uniform distribution on the unit hypercube…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Sifan Liu

Quasi-Monte Carlo methods are used for numerically integrating multivariate functions. However, the error bounds for these methods typically rely on a priori knowledge of some semi-norm of the integrand, not on the sampled function values.…

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