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Bayesian inference remains one of the most important tool-kits for any scientist, but increasingly expensive likelihood functions are required for ever-more complex experiments, raising the cost of generating a Monte Carlo sample of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Jesús Torrado , Nils Schöneberg , Jonas El Gammal

Active subspaces can effectively reduce the dimension of high-dimensional parameter studies enabling otherwise infeasible experiments with expensive simulations. The key components of active subspace methods are the eigenvectors of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Paul Constantine , David Gleich

We develop a Monte Carlo event generator for Higgs Boson pair production merged to exact one-jet matrix elements. The matrix elements are generated with OpenLoops and event generation is performed with the HERWIG++ general-purpose event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Philipp Maierhöfer , Andreas Papaefstathiou

As it has become common to use many computer cores in routine applications, finding good ways to parallelize popular algorithms has become increasingly important. In this paper, we present a parallelization scheme for Markov chain Monte…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-01 Guillaume W. Basse , Natesh S. Pillai , Aaron Smith

Sampling from high-dimensional probability distributions is fundamental in machine learning and statistics. As datasets grow larger, computational efficiency becomes increasingly important, particularly in reducing adaptive complexity,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huanjian Zhou , Masashi Sugiyama

Parallel tempering is a meta-algorithm for Markov Chain Monte Carlo that uses multiple chains to sample from tempered versions of the target distribution, enhancing mixing in multi-modal distributions that are challenging for traditional…

Computation · Statistics 2024-12-30 Daniel Zhao , Natesh S. Pillai

The current trend of multicore architectures on shared memory systems underscores the need of parallelism. While there are some programming model to express parallelism, thread programming model has become a standard to support these system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-12-13 D. T. Hasta , A. B. Mutiara

A new general purpose Monte Carlo event generator with self-adapting grid consisting of simplices is described. In the process of initialization, the simplex-shaped cells divide into daughter subcells in such a way that: (a) cell density is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jadach

After an introduction to event generators we give an overview of developments in the field of joining matrix elements with parton showers. Starting with matrix element corrections, we also discuss implementations that match LO and NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Gieseke

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are essential tools in computational statistics for sampling from unnormalised probability distributions, but can be fragile when targeting high-dimensional, multimodal, or complex target…

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are extensively used for various purposes in modern high-energy physics (HEP) experiments. Precision measurements of established Standard Model processes or searches for new physics often require the collection…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-06-15 Karl Ehataht , Christian Veelken

The performance of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulations crucially depends on both the integration timestep and the number of integration steps. We present an adaptive general-purpose framework to automatically tune such parameters, based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Henrik Christiansen , Federico Errica , Francesco Alesiani

The asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP) has attracted a lot of interest not only because its many applications, e.g. in the context of the kinetics of biopolymerization and traffic flow theory, but also because it is a paradigmatic model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Rajewsky , L. Santen , A. Schadschneider , M. Schreckenberg

The high computational demands of multiscale modeling necessitate advanced parallel and adaptive strategies. To address this challenge, we introduce an adaptive method that utilizes two microscale models based on an offline database for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sion Kim , Ezra Kissel , Karel Matous

We present a modification to variational Monte Carlo's linear method optimization scheme that addresses a critical memory bottleneck while maintaining compatibility with both the traditional ground state variational principle and our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-07 Luning Zhao , Eric Neuscamman

Coupled cluster theory is a vital cornerstone of electronic structure theory and is being applied to ever-larger systems. Stochastic approaches to quantum chemistry have grown in importance and offer compelling advantages over traditional…

This contribution describes some recent advances in the parallelization of the generation and processing of radio signals emitted by particle showers in CORSIKA 8. CORSIKA 8 is a Monte Carlo simulation framework for modeling ultra-high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 A. Augusto Alves , Nikolaos Karastathis , Tim Huege

We present a scalable, parallel implementation of a solver for the solution of a phase-field model for quasi-static brittle fracture. The code is available as open source. Numerical solutions in 2d and 3d with adaptive mesh refinement show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Timo Heister , Thomas Wick

We present a novel saturation and leading order collinear factorization based Monte-Carlo implementation of the EKRT model for computing QCD matter initial states in high-energy nuclear collisions. As new features the MC implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Harri Niemi , Jussi Auvinen , Kari J. Eskola , Henry Hirvonen , Yuuka Kanakubo , Mikko Kuha

We have developed a technique to accelerate the acquisition of effectively uncorrelated configurations for off-lattice models of dense polymer melts which makes use of both parallel tempering and large scale Monte Carlo moves. The method is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Bunker , Burkhard Duenweg