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Machine learning (ML) methods are highly flexible, but their ability to approximate the true data-generating process is fundamentally constrained by finite samples. We characterize a universal lower bound, the Limits-to-Learning Gap (LLG),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-16 Zhimin Chen , Bryan Kelly , Semyon Malamud

Recent works have derived non-asymptotic upper bounds for convergence of underdamped Langevin MCMC. We revisit these bound and consider introducing scaling terms in the underlying underdamped Langevin equation. In particular, we provide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-09 Tim Zajic

Complementary-Label Learning (CLL) is a weakly-supervised learning problem that aims to learn a multi-class classifier from only complementary labels, which indicate a class to which an instance does not belong. Existing approaches mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Wei-I Lin , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Recently there has been remarkable progress in the complex Langevin method, which aims at solving the complex action problem by complexifying the dynamical variables in the original path integral. In particular, a new technique called the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-30 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

Lattice scalar field theories encounter a sign problem when the coupling constant is complex. This is a close cousin of the real-time sign problems that afflict the lattice Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, and a more distant relative of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-28 Scott Lawrence , Hyunwoo Oh , Yukari Yamauchi

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

In this paper we address the temporal energy growth associated with numerical approximations of the perfectly matched layer (PML) for Maxwell's equations in first order form. In the literature, several studies have shown that a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Kenneth Duru

In this work, we consider a generalization of the nonlinear Langevin equation of fractional orders with boundary value conditions. The existence and uniqueness of solutions are studied by using results of the fixed point theory. Moreover,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Saeed Kosari , Milad Yadollahzadeh , Zehui Shao , Yongsheng Rao

In this paper we prove the probabilistic continuous complexity conjecture. In continuous complexity theory, this states that the complexity of solving a continuous problem with probability approaching 1 converges (in this limit) to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-07 Mark A. Kon

The three-dimensional XY model is studied at finite chemical potential using complex Langevin dynamics. The validity of the approach is probed at small chemical potential using imaginary chemical potential and continuity arguments, and at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-21 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James

In the numerical simulation of certain field theoretical models, the complex Langevin simulation has been believed to fail due to the violation of ergodicity. We give a detailed analysis of this problem based on a toy model with one degree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Fujimura , K. Okano , L. Schülke , K. Yamagishi , B. Zheng

The complex Langevin method, a numerical method used to compute the ensemble average with a complex partition function, often suffers from runaway instability. We study the regularization of the complex Langevin method via augmenting the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Zhenning Cai , Yang Kuang , Hong Kiat Tan

We present a novel strategy aimed at restoring correct convergence in complex Langevin simulations. The central idea is to incorporate system-specific prior knowledge into the simulations, in order to circumvent the NP-hard sign problem. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-04-19 Daniel Alvestad , Rasmus Larsen , Alexander Rothkopf

The increasing deployment of machine learning as well as legal regulations such as EU's GDPR cause a need for user-friendly explanations of decisions proposed by machine learning models. Counterfactual explanations are considered as one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

We propose a new way to implement Dirichlet boundary conditions for complex shapes using data from a single node only, in the context of the lattice Boltzmann method. The resulting novel method exhibits second-order convergence for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Francesco Marson , Yann Thorimbert , Jonas Latt , Bastien Chopard

Classical Edgeworth expansions provide asymptotic correction terms to the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) up to an order that depends on the number of moments available. In this paper, we provide subsequent correction terms beyond those given…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-23 Henry Lam , Jose Blanchet , Damian Burch , Martin Z. Bazant

The constrained gradient method (CGM) has recently been proposed to solve convex optimization and monotone variational inequality (VI) problems with general functional constraints. While existing literature has established convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Danqing Zhou , Hongmei Chen , Shiqian Ma , Junfeng Yang

Several numerical schemes are proposed for the solution of Nonequilibrium Langevin Dynamics (NELD), and the rate of convergence is analyzed. Due to the special deforming boundary conditions used, care must be taken when using standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Matthew Dobson , Abdel Kader Geraldo

We begin by giving an example of a smoothly bounded convex domain that has complex geodesics that do not extend continuously up to $\partial\mathbb{D}$. This example suggests that continuity at the boundary of the complex geodesics of a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Gautam Bharali

We investigate the applicability of complex Langevin dynamics to the three-dimensional XY model at finite chemical potential. To assess correctness, we introduce a new diagnostic based on the configurational temperature (or configurational…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-17 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar