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We study the problem of sampling from a probability distribution $\pi$ on $\rset^d$ which has a density \wrt\ the Lebesgue measure known up to a normalization factor $x \mapsto \rme^{-U(x)} / \int_{\rset^d} \rme^{-U(y)} \rmd y$. We analyze…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-17 M. Barkhagen , N. H. Chau , É. Moulines , M. Rásonyi , S. Sabanis , Y. Zhang

Langevin diffusion processes and their discretizations are often used for sampling from a target density. The most convenient framework for assessing the quality of such a sampling scheme corresponds to smooth and strongly log-concave…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Arnak S. Dalalyan , Lionel Riou-Durand

By introducing a second complex variable, the integral relation between a complex density and the corresponding positive distribution is derived. Together with the positivity and normalizability conditions, this sum rule allows to construct…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-22 Jacek Wosiek

We discuss the design of an invariant measure-preserving transformed dynamics for the numerical treatment of Langevin dynamics based on rescaling of time, with the goal of sampling from an invariant measure. Given an appropriate monitor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Alix Leroy , Benedict Leimkuhler , Jonas Latz , Desmond J. Higham

We present a new and improved method for simultaneous control of temperature and pressure in molecular dynamics simulations with periodic boundary conditions. The thermostat-barostat equations are build on our previously developed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is a reliable and versatile algorithm for addressing the numerical sign problem. It resolves the ergodicity issues commonly encountered in Lefschetz thimble-based…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-31 Masafumi Fukuma

The probability distribution effectively sampled by a complex Langevin process for theories with a sign problem is not known a priori and notoriously hard to understand. Diffusion models, a class of generative AI, can learn distributions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-12-05 Diaa E. Habibi , Gert Aarts , Lingxiao Wang , Kai Zhou

We provide a general formula, based on stochastic thermodynamics, that describes the flow of information between an arbitrary number of coupled complex-valued Langevin equations. This permits to describe the transfer of information in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-09 Simone Borlenghi

We propose a scheme for extending the model Hamiltonian method developed originally for studying the equilibrium properties of complex perovskite systems to include Langevin dynamics. The extension is based on Zwanzig's treatment of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Morrel H. Cohen

We demonstrate analytically that complex Langevin dynamics can solve the sign problem in one-dimensional QCD in the thermodynamic limit. In particular, it is shown that the contributions from the complex and highly oscillating spectral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-21 Gert Aarts , K. Splittorff

A method is proposed to transform any analytic solution of the Bloch equation into an analytic solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. This allows for the analytical description of the dynamics of a two level system with damping.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-26 Christian Brouder

Despite the versatility of generalized linear mixed models in handling complex experimental designs, they often suffer from misspecification and convergence problems. This makes inference on the values of coefficients problematic. To…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-31 Angela Andreella , Jelle Goeman , Jesse Hemerik , Livio Finos

Many complex systems, ranging from migrating cells to animal groups, exhibit stochastic dynamics described by the underdamped Langevin equation. Inferring such an equation of motion from experimental data can provide profound insight into…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 David B. Brückner , Pierre Ronceray , Chase P. Broedersz

Langevin sampling from distributions of the form $p(x) \propto \exp(-\Psi(x))$ faces two major challenges: (global) mode coverage and (local) mode exploration. The first challenge is particularly relevant for multi-modal distributions with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Alexander Falk , Laurenz Nagler , Andreas Habring , Thomas Pock

We propose a sampling method based on an ensemble approximation of second order Langevin dynamics. The log target density is appended with a quadratic term in an auxiliary momentum variable and damped-driven Hamiltonian dynamics introduced;…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Ziming Liu , Andrew M. Stuart , Yixuan Wang

Domain knowledge is useful to improve the generalization performance of learning machines. Sign constraints are a handy representation to combine domain knowledge with learning machine. In this paper, we consider constraining the signs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Kenya Tajima , Takahiko Henmi , Kohei Tsuchida , Esmeraldo Ronnie R. Zara , Tsuyoshi Kato

We develop a formulation for molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms in the recently proposed generalized ensemble that is based on a physically motivated realisation of Tsallis weights. The effectiveness of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Frank Eisenmenger , Yuko Okamoto

We revisit the problem of sampling from a target distribution that has a smooth strongly log-concave density everywhere in $\mathbb R^p$. In this context, if no additional density information is available, the randomized midpoint…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Lu Yu , Avetik Karagulyan , Arnak Dalalyan

We show that a common Lyapunov matrix exists for the convex combination of two Hurwitz matrices if and only if the intersection of the set of strict Lyapunov matrices for one matrix and the set of non-strict Lyapunov matrices for the other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Mengmou Li , Lijun Zhu , Masaaki Nagahara

In machine learning one of the strategic tasks is the selection of only significant variables as predictors for the response(s). In this paper an approach is proposed which consists in the application of permutation tests on the candidate…