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In a series of papers, in 1993, 1994 & 1996, Sloan & Niederreiter introduced a modification of lattice rules for non-periodic functions, called "vertex modified lattice rules"', and a particular breed called "optimal vertex modified lattice…

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We develop a computationally efficient framework for quasi-Bayesian inference based on linear moment conditions. The approach employs a delayed acceptance Markov chain Monte Carlo (DA-MCMC) algorithm that uses a surrogate target kernel and…

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We study embeddings and norm estimates for tensor products of weighted reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. These results lead to a transfer principle that is directly applicable to tractability studies of multivariate problems as integration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Michael Gnewuch , Mario Hefter , Aicke Hinrichs , Klaus Ritter

We study multivariate numerical integration of smooth functions in weighted Sobolev spaces with dominating mixed smoothness $\alpha\geq 2$ defined over the $s$-dimensional unit cube. We propose a new quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC)-based quadrature…

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

Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods have become essential tools for performing inference when likelihood functions are intractable or computationally prohibitive. However, their scalability remains a major challenge in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-09 Antoine Luciano , Charly Andral , Christian P. Robert , Robin J. Ryder

The efficient and accurate simulation of material systems with defects using atomistic- to-continuum (a/c) coupling methods is a topic of considerable interest in the field of computational materials science. To achieve the desired balance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Yangshuai Wang

In the random case setting, scrambled polynomial lattice rules as discussed in \cite{BD10} enjoy more favourable strong tractablility properties than scrambled digital nets. This short note discusses the application of scrambled polynomial…

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Finite mixture models are used in statistics and other disciplines, but inference for mixture models is challenging due, in part, to the multimodality of the likelihood function and the so-called label switching problem. We propose…

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This article provides a survey of recent research efforts on the application of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with random diffusion coefficients. It considers, and contrasts, the uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens

Tensor network contraction is a powerful computational tool in quantum many-body physics, quantum information and quantum chemistry. The complexity of contracting a tensor network is thought to mainly depend on its entanglement properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jiaqing Jiang , Jielun Chen , Norbert Schuch , Dominik Hangleiter

The main question concerns another recent advance in sequential Monte Carlo, the use of a mixture transition kernel that automatically adapts to the target distribution (Douc et al. 2006). Is there a class of static inference problems for…

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We have used diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations to study the pressure-induced phase transition from the diamond to $\beta$-tin structure in silicon. The calculations employ the pseudopotential technique and systematically…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 D. Alfè , M. J. Gillan , M. D. Towler , R. J. Needs

The iterative Quasi-Monte Carlo (iQMC) method is a recently proposed method for multigroup neutron transport simulations. iQMC can be viewed as a hybrid between deterministic iterative techniques, Monte Carlo simulation, and Quasi-Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Samuel Pasmann , Ilham Variansyah , C. T. Kelley , Ryan G. McClarren

We analyze combined Quasi-Monte Carlo quadrature and Finite Element approximations in Bayesian estimation of solutions to countably-parametric operator equations with holomorphic dependence on the parameters as considered in [Cl.~Schillings…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Josef Dick , Robert N. Gantner , Quoc T. Le Gia , Christoph Schwab

We study randomized quasi-Monte Carlo integration by scrambled nets. The scrambled net quadrature has long gained its popularity because it is an unbiased estimator of the true integral, allows for a practical error estimation, achieves a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Takashi Goda , Kosuke Suzuki

We study numerical integration of functions depending on an infinite number of variables. We provide lower error bounds for general deterministic linear algorithms and provide matching upper error bounds with the help of suitable multilevel…

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Monte Carlo (MC) integration has been employed as the standard approximation method for the Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance, whose analytical expression involves an intractable expectation. However, MC integration is not optimal in terms…

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Low-discrepancy (LD) sequences have been extensively used as efficient experimental designs across many scientific disciplines. QMCPy (https://qmcsoftware.github.io/QMCSoftware/) is an accessible Python library which provides a unified…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aleksei G Sorokin

This work studies numerical integration by the M\"obius-transformed trapezoidal rule, which combines the classical trapezoidal rule with a change of variables induced by a M\"obius transformation that maps the unit circle onto the real…

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