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In high dimensions, reflective Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with inexact reflections exhibits slow mixing when the particle ensemble is initialised from a Dirac delta distribution and the uniform distribution is targeted. By quantifying the…

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Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain algorithm for sampling from a high-dimensional distribution with density $e^{-f(x)}$, given access to the gradient of $f$. A particular case of interest is that of a $d$-dimensional Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-27 Simon Apers , Sander Gribling , Dániel Szilágyi

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a state-of-the-art Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm for drawing samples from smooth probability densities over continuous spaces. We study the variant most widely used in practice, Metropolized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-12 Yuansi Chen , Raaz Dwivedi , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

We present an extension of constrained-path auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (CP-AFQMC) for the treatment of correlated electronic systems coupled to phonons. The algorithm follows the standard CP-AFQMC approach for description of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Joonho Lee , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman

Langevin algorithms are popular Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for large-scale sampling problems that often arise in data science. We propose Monte Carlo algorithms based on the discretizations of $P$-th order Langevin dynamics for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Thanh Dang , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Mohammad Rafiqul Islam , Nian Yao , Lingjiong Zhu

The UV/IR mixing in the \lambda \phi^4 model on a non-commutative (NC) space leads to new predictions in perturbation theory, including Hartree-Fock type approximations. Among them there is a changed phase diagram and an unusual behavior of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Bietenholz , F. Hofheinz , J. Nishimura

We develop an efficient algorithm for evaluating divergent perturbation expansions of field theories in the bare coupling constant g_B for which we possess a finite number L of expansion coefficients plus two more informations: The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Florian Jasch , Hagen Kleinert

In this expository article we review recent advances in our understanding of the combinatorial and algebraic structure of perturbation theory in terms of Feynman graphs, and Dyson-Schwinger equations. Starting from Lie and Hopf algebras of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-04 Christoph Bergbauer , Dirk Kreimer

Given a dilation matrix M, a so-called space of M-positive vectors in the Euclidean space is introduced and studied. An algebraic structure of this space is similar to the positive half-line equipped with the termwise addition modulo 2,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Yu. Farkov , M. Skopina

This paper deals with two kinds of the one-dimensional global optimization problems over a closed finite interval: (i) the objective function $f(x)$ satisfies the Lipschitz condition with a constant $L$; (ii) the first derivative of $f(x)$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Daniela Lera , Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

We develop a new formalism to study nonlinear evolution in the growth of large-scale structure, by following the dynamics of gravitational clustering as it builds up in time. This approach is conveniently represented by Feynman diagrams…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Crocce , R. Scoccimarro

A sensible application of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) method is often hindered by the presence of large - or even infinite - potential barriers. These potential barriers separate the configuration space into distinct sectors and can lead…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-06 Finn L. Temmen , Evan Berkowitz , Anthony Kennedy , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Xinhao Yu

Sampling from distributions play a crucial role in aiding practitioners with statistical inference. However, in numerous situations, obtaining exact samples from complex distributions is infeasible. Consequently, researchers often turn to…

Computation · Statistics 2024-04-01 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Tiefeng Jiang

Simulations of QCD suffer from severe critical slowing down towards the continuum limit. This problem is known to be prominent in the topological charge, however, all observables are affected to various degree by these slow modes in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-15 Stefan Schaefer , Francesco Virotta

We consider coupled slow-fast stochastic processes, where the averaged slow motion is given by a two-dimensional Hamiltonian system with multiple critical points. On a proper time scale, the evolution of the first integral converges to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Shuo Yan

This work is devoted to the development of a novel theoretical approach, named hybrid approach, to handle a localized bottleneck in a symmetrically coupled two-channel totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with Langmuir kinetics. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Isha Dhiman , Arvind Kumar Gupta

The renormalized trajectory of massless $\phi^4$-theory on four dimensional Euclidean space-time is investigated as a renormalization group invariant curve in the center manifold of the trivial fixed point, tangent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Christian Wieczerkowski

The paper proposes a Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampler to resolve the shortcomings of existing Monte Carlo algorithms when sampling from target densities that may be high dimensional and exhibit strong correlations. The…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-18 Mark Girolami , Ben Calderhead , Siu A. Chin

We investigate the performance of the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm in updating non-trivial global topological structures. We find that the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm has serious problems decorrelating the global topological charge. This…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-15 G. Boyd , B. Allés , M. D'Elia , A. Di Giacomo , E. Vicari

The free energy of a field theory can be considered as a functional of the free correlation function. As such it obeys a nonlinear functional differential equation which can be turned into a recursion relation. This is solved order by order…

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