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This work addresses the problem of state estimation in multivariable dynamic systems with quantized outputs, a common scenario in applications involving low-resolution sensors or communication constraints. A novel method is proposed to…

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We present quantum algorithms for solving two problems regarding stochastic processes. The first algorithm prepares the thermal Gibbs state of a quantum system and runs in time almost linear in $\sqrt{N \beta/{\cal Z}}$ and polynomial in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Anirban Narayan Chowdhury , Rolando D. Somma

Parallel tempering Monte Carlo has proven to be an efficient method in optimization and sampling applications. Having an optimized temperature set enhances the efficiency of the algorithm through more-frequent replica visits to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Ignacio Rozada , Maliheh Aramon , Jonathan Machta , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Thermodynamic computing has emerged as a promising paradigm for accelerating computation by harnessing the thermalization properties of physical systems. This work introduces a novel approach to solving quadratic programming problems using…

We present results from our study of the Parallel Tempering algorithm. We examine the swapping acceptance rate of a twin subensemble PT system. We use action matching technology in an attempt to maximise the swap acceptance rate. We model…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Balint Joo , UKQCD Collaboration

Data assimilation algorithms integrate prior information from numerical model simulations with observed data. Ensemble-based filters, regarded as state-of-the-art, are widely employed for large-scale estimation tasks in disciplines such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Iris Rammelmüller , Gottfried Hastermann , Jana de Wiljes

We introduce a new update scheme to systematically improve the efficiency of parallel tempering simulations. We show that by adapting the number of sweeps between replica exchanges to the canonical autocorrelation time, the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-26 Elmar Bittner , Andreas Nussbaumer , Wolfhard Janke

Adiabatic quantum computers, such as the quantum annealers commercialized by D-Wave Systems Inc., are routinely used to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. In this article, we show how to exploit them to accelerate equilibrium…

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Application of the replica exchange (i.e., parallel tempering) technique to Langevin Monte Carlo algorithms, especially stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD), has scored great success in non-convex learning problems, but one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Guanxun Li , Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang , Quan Zhou

We discuss multi-dimensional generalizations of multicanonical algorithm, simulated tempering, and replica-exchange method. We generalize the original potential energy function $E_0$ by adding any physical quantity $V$ of interest as a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-08 Ayori Mitsutake , Yuko Okamoto

Quantum machine learning (QML) leverages quantum computing for classical inference, furnishes the processing of quantum data with machine-learning methods, and provides quantum algorithms adapted to noisy devices. Typically, QML proposals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Luis Mantilla Calderón , Robert Raussendorf , Polina Feldmann , Dmytro Bondarenko

Simulated Quantum Annealing (SQA) is a Markov Chain Monte-Carlo algorithm that samples the equilibrium thermal state of a Quantum Annealing (QA) Hamiltonian. In addition to simulating quantum systems, SQA has also been proposed as another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Elizabeth Crosson , Aram W. Harrow

We construct a simple quantum version of the classical Metropolis algorithm to prepare and observe quantum thermal states. It induces both a quantum Markov chain that mixes the quantum thermal state and a classical Markov chain that mixes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Jonathan E. Moussa

I generalize the well-known classical Metropolis-Hastings algorithm into a quantum algorithm that can equilibrate, measure, and mix a quantum thermal state on a quantum computer. It performs non-symmetric transitions on labels of state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jonathan E. Moussa

Importance sampling is a Monte Carlo method that introduces a proposal distribution to sample the space according to the target distribution. Yet calibration of the proposal distribution is essential to achieving efficiency, thus the resort…

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We introduce the well-tempered ensemble (WTE) which is the biased ensemble sampled by well-tempered metadynamics when the energy is used as collective variable. WTE can be designed so as to have approximately the same average energy as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Bonomi , M. Parrinello

The quest for improved sampling methods to solve statistical mechanics problems of physical and chemical interest proceeds with renewed efforts since the invention of the Metropolis algorithm, in 1953. In particular, the understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Guglielmo Mazzola

In this paper we propose a general framework of performing MCMC with only a mini-batch of data. We show by estimating the Metropolis-Hasting ratio with only a mini-batch of data, one is essentially sampling from the true posterior raised to…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-23 Dangna Li , Wing H Wong

Model compression has emerged as a mainstream solution to reduce memory usage and computational overhead. This paper presents Group Quantization and Sparse Acceleration (GQSA), a novel compression technique tailored for LLMs. Traditional…

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Contemporary macro energy systems modelling is characterized by the need to represent strategic and operational decisions with high temporal and spatial resolution and represent discrete investment and retirement decisions. This drive…

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