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Floating random walk-based capacitance extraction has emerged in recent years as a tried and true approach for extracting parasitic capacitance in very large scale integrated circuits. Being a Monte Carlo method, its performance is…

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When dealing with difficult inverse problems such as inverse rendering, using Monte Carlo estimated gradients to optimise parameters can slow down convergence due to variance. Averaging many gradient samples in each iteration reduces this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Martin Balint , Karol Myszkowski , Hans-Peter Seidel , Gurprit Singh

A new diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo approach is proposed to deal with the imaginary time propagator involving both dynamic disorder (i.e., electron-phonon interactions) and static disorder of local or nonlocal nature in a unified and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu-Chen Wang , Yi Zhao

Seismic tomography is a methodology to image the interior of solid or fluid media, and is often used to map properties in the subsurface of the Earth. In order to better interpret the resulting images it is important to assess imaging…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xin Zhang , Andrew Curtis

In this paper, we consider the problem of online asymptotic variance estimation for particle filtering and smoothing. Current solutions for the particle filter rely on the particle genealogy and are either unstable or hard to tune in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-14 Yazid Janati El idrissi , Sylvain Le Corff , Yohan Petetin

High-energy physics simulations traditionally rely on classical Monte Carlo methods to model complex particle interactions, often incurring significant computational costs. In this paper, we introduce a novel quantum-enhanced simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Euimin Lee , Sangmin Lee , Shiho Kim

This work proposes an adaptive sequential Monte Carlo sampling algorithm to solve Bayesian inverse problems in scenarios where likelihood evaluations are costly but can be approximated using a surrogate model built from previous evaluations…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-26 Frederic Cerou , Patrick Heas , Mathias Rousset

We propose a new Monte Carlo method for efficiently sampling trajectories with fixed initial and final conditions in a system with discrete degrees of freedom. The method can be applied to any stochastic process with local interactions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-30 Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Francesco Zamponi

The multifrequency electrical impedance tomography consists in retrieving the conductivity distribution of a sample by injecting a finite number of currents with multiple frequencies. In this paper we consider the case where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Habib Ammari , Faouzi Triki , Chun-Hsiang Tsou

We study the problem of detecting a random walk on a graph from a sequence of noisy measurements at every node. There are two hypotheses: either every observation is just meaningless zero-mean Gaussian noise, or at each time step exactly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

Elastic systems that are spatially heterogeneous in their mechanical response pose special challenges for molecular simulations. Standard methods for sampling thermal fluctuations of a system's size and shape proceed through a series of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Sander Pronk , Phillip L. Geissler

Since its formulation in the late 1940s, the Feynman-Kac formula has proven to be an effective tool for both theoretical reformulations and practical simulations of differential equations. The link it establishes between such equations and…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Stefan Pauli , Robert Gantner , Peter Arbenz , Andreas Adelmann

Grid-free Monte Carlo methods such as walk on spheres can be used to solve elliptic partial differential equations without mesh generation or global solves. However, such methods independently estimate the solution at every point, and hence…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

We present a Multi-Index Quasi-Monte Carlo method for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations with random coefficients. By combining the multi-index sampling idea with randomly shifted rank-1 lattice rules, the algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Pieterjan Robbe , Dirk Nuyens , Stefan Vandewalle

We study the inverse problem of determining the conductivity matrix of an electrical network from the prescribed knowledge of the magnitude of the induced current along the edges coupled with the imposed voltage or injected current on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Christina Knox , Amir Moradifam

Monte Carlo matrix trace estimation is a popular randomized technique to estimate the trace of implicitly-defined matrices via averaging quadratic forms across several observations of a random vector. The most common approach to analyze the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Lior Horesh , Vasileios Kalantzis , Yingdong Lu , Tomasz Nowicki

Graph embedding based on random-walks supports effective solutions for many graph-related downstream tasks. However, the abundance of embedding literature has made it increasingly difficult to compare existing methods and to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zexi Huang , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh

Physics has played a fundamental role in medicine sciences, specially in imaging diagnostic. Currently, image reconstruction techniques are already taught in Physics courses and there is a growing interest in new potential applications. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-02-22 Olavo Henrique Menin , Vanessa Rolnik , Alexandre Souto Martinez

The radiative transfer equation models various physical processes ranging from plasma simulations to radiation therapy. In practice, these phenomena are often subject to uncertainties. Modeling and propagating these uncertainties requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Chinmay Patwardhan , Pia Stammer , Emil Løvbak , Jonas Kusch , Sebastian Krumscheid

We develop walk-on-sphere for fractional Poisson equations with Dirichilet boundary conditions in high dimensions. The walk-on-sphere method is based on probabilistic represen tation of the fractional Poisson equation. We propose effcient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Caiyu Jiao , Changpin Li , Hexiang Wang , Zhongqiang Zhang