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We use numerical simulation to investigate and analyze the way that rigid disks and spheres arrange themselves when compressed next to incommensurate substrates. For disks, a movable set is pressed into a jammed state against an ordered…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris D. Lubachevsky , Frank H. Stillinger

Generation of pseudorandom numbers from different probability distributions has been studied extensively in the Monte Carlo simulation literature. Two standard generation techniques are the acceptance-rejection and inverse transformation…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-03-25 Nguyet Nguyen , Giray Ökten

"Particle methods" are sequential Monte Carlo algorithms, typically involving importance sampling, that are used to estimate and sample from joint and marginal densities from a collection of a, presumably increasing, number of random…

Computation · Statistics 2014-07-17 J. N. Corcoran , D. Jennings

The zeros of the size-$n$ partition functions for a statistical mechanical model can be used to help understand the critical behaviour of the model as $n\to\infty$. Here we use weighted Dyck paths as a simple model of two-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 NR Beaton , EJ Janse van Rensburg

To avoid ineffective collisions between the equilibrium states, the hybrid method with deviational particles (HDP) has been proposed to integrate the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system, while leaving a new issue in sampling deviational particles…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zhengyang Lei , Sihong Shao

Continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo refers to a class of algorithms designed to sample the thermal distribution of a quantum Hamiltonian through exact expansions of the Boltzmann exponential in terms of stochastic trajectories which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Jamie F. Mair , Juan P. Garrahan

We design a new, fast algorithm for agnostically learning univariate probability distributions whose densities are well approximated by piecewise polynomial functions. Let $f$ be the density function of an arbitrary univariate distribution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Jayadev Acharya , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

We study the numerical solution of nonlinear partially observed optimal stopping problems. The system state is taken to be a multi-dimensional diffusion and drives the drift of the observation process, which is another multi-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Mike Ludkovski

We present validation tests of emulator-based halo model method for cosmological parameter inference, assuming hypothetical measurements of the projected correlation function of galaxies, $w_{\rm p}(R)$, and the galaxy-galaxy weak lensing,…

In the time-dependent simulation of pure states dealing with transport in open quantum systems, the initial state is located outside of the active region of interest. Using the superposition principle and the analytical knowledge of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Fabio L. Traversa , Zhen Zhan , Xavier Oriols

The computational complexity of some depths that satisfy the projection property, such as the halfspace depth or the projection depth, is known to be high, especially for data of higher dimensionality. In such scenarios, the exact depth is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Stanislav Nagy , Rainer Dyckerhoff , Pavlo Mozharovskyi

Most existing distance metric learning methods assume perfect side information that is usually given in pairwise or triplet constraints. Instead, in many real-world applications, the constraints are derived from side information, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Kaizhu Huang , Rong Jin , Zenglin Xu , Cheng-Lin Liu

In this work a replica exchange Monte Carlo scheme which considers an extended isobaric-isothermal ensemble with respect to pressure is applied to study hard spheres (HS). The idea behind the proposal is expanding volume instead of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gerardo Odriozola

Optimal matrices for problems involving the matrix numerical radius often have fields of values that are disks, a phenomenon associated with partial smoothness. Such matrices are highly structured: we experiment in particular with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-01 X. Y. Han , Adrian S. Lewis

Selecting relevant features is an important and necessary step for intelligent machines to maximize their chances of success. However, intelligent machines generally have no enough computing resources when faced with huge volume of data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hexiang Bai , Deyu Li , Jiye Liang , Yanhui Zhai

The near proportionality between HI and dark matter in outer galactic disks prompted us to run N-body simulations of galactic disks in which the observed gas content is supplemented by a dark gas component representing between zero and five…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-30 Y. Revaz , D. Pfenniger , F. Combes , F. Bournaud

We present a universal technique for quantum state estimation based on the maximum-likelihood method. This approach provides a positive definite estimate for the density matrix from a sequence of measurements performed on identically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Banaszek , G. M. D'Ariano , M. G. A. Paris , M. F. Sacchi

Slice sampling is a well-established Markov chain Monte Carlo method for (approximate) sampling of target distributions which are only known up to a normalizing constant. The method is based on choosing a new state on a slice, i.e., a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-22 Kevin Bitterlich , Daniel Rudolf , Björn Sprungk

In this paper we demonstrate that the information encoded in \emph{one} single (sufficiently large) $N$-body simulation can be used to reproduce arbitrary numbers of halo catalogues, using approximated realisations of dark matter density…

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the intensity of some random measure by a piecewise constant function on a finite partition of the underlying measurable space. Given a (possibly large) family of candidate partitions, we build a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Yannick Baraud , Lucien Birgé