English
Related papers

Related papers: Composite biasing in Monte Carlo radiative transfe…

200 papers

The principle and the efficiency of the Monte Carlo transfer-matrix algorithm are discussed. Enhancements of this algorithm are illustrated by applications to several phase transitions in lattice spin models. We demonstrate how the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. P. Nightingale , H. W. J. Bloete

A simple reweighting scheme is proposed for Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particle systems, permitting one to study various parameter values in a single study, and improving efficiency by an order of magnitude. Unlike earlier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ronald Dickman

Muon ionization cooling involves passing particles through solid or liquid absorbers. Careful simulations are required to design muon cooling channels. New features have been developed for inclusion in the transfer map code COSY Infinity to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Josiah Kunz , Pavel Snopok , Martin Berz , Kyoko Makino

Constraints can be interpreted in a broad sense as any kind of explicit restriction over the parameters. While some constraints are defined directly on the parameter space, when they are instead defined by known behaviour on the model,…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-27 Shirin Golchi , David A. Campbell

We present a Monte Carlo algorithm that allows the simultaneous determination of a few extremal eigenpairs of a very large matrix without the need to compute the inner product of two vectors or store all the components of any one vector.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. E. Booth , J. E. Gubernatis

Importance sampling has been known as a powerful tool to reduce the variance of Monte Carlo estimator for rare event simulation. Based on the criterion of minimizing the variance of Monte Carlo estimator within a parametric family, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-11 Cheng-Der Fuh , Huei-Wen Teng , Ren-Her Wang

Methods of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) are increasingly used for analysis of complex models. A major challenge for ABC is over-coming the often inherent problem of high rejection rates in the accept/reject methods based on…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-27 Fernando V. Bonassi , Mike West

The paper presents an investigation of estimating treatment effect using different matching methods. The study proposed a new method which is computationally efficient and convenient in implication-'largest caliper matching' and compared…

Applications · Statistics 2018-06-07 Sharif Mahmood

Anomalous radiative transfer (ART) theory is a generalization of classical radiative transfer theory. The present tutorial wants to show how Monte Carlo (MC) codes describing photons transport in anomalous media can be implemented. It is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Tiziano Binzoni , Fabizio Martelli

We demonstrate that cell resampling can eliminate the bulk of negative event weights in large event samples of high multiplicity processes without discernible loss of accuracy in the predicted observables. The application of cell resampling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Jeppe R. Andersen , Andreas Maier , Daniel Maître

Monte Carlo methods play a central role in particle physics, where they are indispensable for simulating scattering processes, modeling detector responses, and performing multi-dimensional integrals. However, traditional Monte Carlo methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Heechan Yi , Kayoung Ban , Myeonghun Park , Kyoungchul Kong

In this work, we investigate the fidelity of orbital optimization in variational Monte Carlo to improve diffusion Monte Carlo results on correlated magnetic systems, using CrSBr as a model system. We compare the performance of different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-27 Cody A. Melton , Jaron T. Krogel

We present several applications of the bias-variance decomposition, beginning with straightforward Monte Carlo estimation of integrals, but progressing to the more complex problem of Monte Carlo Optimization (MCO), which involves finding a…

Applications · Statistics 2008-10-07 Dev Rajnarayan , David Wolpert

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms have become powerful tools for Bayesian inference. However, they do not scale well to large-data problems. Divide-and-conquer strategies, which split the data into batches and, for each batch, run…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-18 Christopher Nemeth , Chris Sherlock

Monte Carlo methods are essential tools for Bayesian inference. Gibbs sampling is a well-known Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, extensively used in signal processing, machine learning, and statistics, employed to draw samples from…

Computation · Statistics 2017-12-21 Luca Martino , Victor Elvira , Gustau Camps-Valls

A resampling scheme provides a way to switch low-weight particles for sequential Monte Carlo with higher-weight particles representing the objective distribution. The less the variance of the weight distribution is, the more concentrated…

Computation · Statistics 2023-09-19 Xiongming Dai , Gerald Baumgartner

In photorealistic image rendering, Monte Carlo methods form the foundation for the integration of the rendering equation in modern approaches. However, despite their effectiveness, traditional Monte Carlo methods often face challenges in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Nicolas Chenavier , Samuel Delepoulle , Christophe Renaud , Franck Vandewièle

The design of new x-ray phase contrast imaging setups often relies on Monte Carlo simulations for prospective parameter studies. Monte Carlo simulations are known to be accurate but time consuming, leading to long simulation times,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Jonathan Sanctorum , Jan Sijbers , Jan De Beenhouwer

We introduce an emission-biasing scheme in the SKIRT radiative transfer code that enables efficient generation of synthetic galaxy images optimized for low-surface-brightness (LSB) science. Standard Monte Carlo radiative transfer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Andrea Gebek , Arno Lauwers , Joop Schaye , Paul Vauterin

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is computationally intensive for complex model simulators. To exploit expensive simulations, data-resampling via bootstrapping can be employed to obtain many artificial datasets at little cost.…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-05 Umberto Picchini , Richard G. Everitt