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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

We review the theory and applications of complex stochastic quantization to the quantum many-body problem. Along the way, we present a brief overview of a number of ideas that either ameliorate or in some cases altogether solve the sign…

Stochastic quantization offers the opportunity to simulate field theories with a complex action. In some theories unstable trajectories are prevalent when a constant stepsize is employed. We construct algorithms for generating an adaptive…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

The complex Langevin method is a general method to treat systems with complex action, such as QCD at nonzero density. The formal justification relies on the absence of certain boundary terms, both at infinity and at the unavoidable poles of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-03 Erhard Seiler

Recently the complex Langevin method (CLM) has been attracting attention as a solution to the sign problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo calculations when the effective Boltzmann weight is not real positive. An undesirable feature of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-13 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

We proposed a new technique to accelerate sampling methods for solving difficult optimization problems. Our method investigates the intrinsic connection between posterior distribution sampling and optimization with Langevin dynamics, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Junlong Lyu , Zhitang Chen , Wenlong Lyu , Jianye Hao

We develop an efficient sampling method by simulating Langevin dynamics with an artificial force rather than a natural force by using the gradient of the potential energy. The standard technique for sampling following the predetermined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Ohzeki , A. Ichiki

A method is proposed to handle the sign problem in the simulation of systems having indefinite or complex-valued measures. In general, this new approach, which is based on renormalisation blocking, is shown to yield statistical errors…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 J. F. Markham , T. D. Kieu

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a classical numerical strategy to alleviate the numerical sign problem in the computation of lattice field theories. Mathematically, it is a simple numerical tool to compute a wide class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Zhenning Cai , Xiaoyu Dong , Yang Kuang

Langevin algorithms are popular Markov chain Monte Carlo methods that are often used to solve high-dimensional large-scale sampling problems in machine learning. The most classical Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm is based on the overdamped…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nian Yao , Pervez Ali , Xihua Tao , Lingjiong Zhu

The nuclear shell model is known to describe the properties of various nuclei extremely well. However, the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo calculations cannot be applied to it with general interactions due to the sign problem. The model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Yuhma Asano , Yuta Ito , Jun Nishimura , Noritaka Shimizu

Effective Polyakov line models, derived from SU(3) gauge-matter systems at finite chemical potential, have a sign problem. In this article I solve two such models, derived from SU(3) gauge-Higgs and heavy quark theories by the relative…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-12-31 Jeff Greensite

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

We derive a family of correctness conditions for complex Langevin simulations. In particular, we show that if in a given theory the expectation values of all observables within a particular space satisfy the theory's Schwinger-Dyson…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-11 Michael Mandl , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

In molecular dynamics, penalized overdamped Langevin dynamics are used to model the motion of a set of particles that follow constraints up to a parameter $\varepsilon$. The most used schemes for simulating these dynamics are the Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Adrien Laurent

The complex Langevin (CL) method shows significant potential in addressing the numerical sign problem. Nonetheless, it often produces incorrect results when used without any stabilization techniques. Leveraging insights from previous…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-17 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

Bayesian inference in complex generative models is often obstructed by the absence of tractable likelihoods and the infeasibility of computing gradients of high-dimensional simulators. Existing likelihood-free methods for generalized…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-05 Diksha Bhandari , Sebastian Reich

Recently found positive representation for an arbitrary complex, gaussian weight is used to construct a statistical formulation of gaussian path integrals directly in the Minkowski time. The positivity of Minkowski weights is achieved by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Jacek Wosiek

The great majority of algorithms employed in the study of lattice field theory are based on Monte Carlo's importance sampling method, i.e. on probability interpretation of the Boltzmann weight. Unfortunately in many theories of interest one…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-03 Lorenzo Bongiovanni

The problem of effective equations is reviewed and discussed. Starting from the classical Langevin equation, we show how it can be generalized to Hamiltonian systems with non-standard kinetic terms. A numerical method for inferring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Angelo Vulpiani , Marco Baldovin