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Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are widely used in machine learning. One of the major problems with MCMC is the question of how to design chains that mix fast over the whole state space; in particular, how to select the parameters…

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Neural quantum states have established themselves as a powerful and versatile family of ansatzes for variational Monte Carlo simulations of quantum many-body systems. Of particular prominence are autoregressive neural quantum states (ANQS),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Aleksei Malyshev , Juan Miguel Arrazola , A. I. Lvovsky

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a powerful and expressive ansatz for representing quantum many-body wave functions. However, their training via Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) methods remains challenging. It is well known that some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Antoine Misery , Luca Gravina , Alessandro Santini , Filippo Vicentini

High-quality random samples of quantum states are needed for a variety of tasks in quantum information and quantum computation. Searching the high-dimensional quantum state space for a global maximum of an objective function with many local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 Jiangwei Shang , Yi-Lin Seah , Hui Khoon Ng , David John Nott , Berthold-Georg Englert

Based on the scheme of variational Monte Carlo sampling, we develop an accurate and efficient two-dimensional tensor-network algorithm to simulate quantum lattice models. We find that Monte Carlo sampling shows huge advantages in dealing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-28 Wen-Yuan Liu , Yi-Zhen Huang , Shou-Shu Gong , Zheng-Cheng Gu

Tensor network states are powerful variational ans\"atze for many-body ground states of quantum lattice models. The use of Monte Carlo sampling techniques in tensor network approaches significantly reduces the cost of tensor contractions,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-01 Andrew J. Ferris , Guifre Vidal

Generative neural samplers offer a complementary approach to Monte Carlo methods for problems in statistical physics and quantum field theory. This work tests the ability of generative neural samplers to estimate observables for real-world…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-16 Johanna Vielhaben , Nils Strodthoff

In recent years, neural network quantum states (NNQS) have emerged as powerful tools for the study of quantum many-body systems. Electronic structure calculations are one such canonical many-body problem that have attracted significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Thomas D. Barrett , Aleksei Malyshev , A. I. Lvovsky

The simulation of quantum many-body systems poses a significant challenge in physics due to the exponential scaling of Hilbert space with the number of particles. Traditional methods often struggle with large system sizes and frustrated…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-27 Avishek Singh , Nirmal Ganguli

Artificial neural networks have been recently introduced as a general ansatz to compactly represent many- body wave functions. In conjunction with Variational Monte Carlo, this ansatz has been applied to find Hamil- tonian ground states and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-24 Kenny Choo , Giuseppe Carleo , Nicolas Regnault , Titus Neupert

Quantum many-body problems are some of the most challenging problems in science and are central to demystifying some exotic quantum phenomena, e.g., high-temperature superconductors. The combination of neural networks (NN) for representing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Or Sharir , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Anima Anandkumar

Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful ansatz for variational quantum Monte Carlo studies of strongly-correlated systems. Here, we apply recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and autoregressive transformer neural networks to the…

This paper introduces a Bayesian framework that combines Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling, dimensionality reduction, and neural density estimation to efficiently handle inverse problems that (i) must be solved multiple times, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Giacomo Bottacini , Matteo Torzoni , Andrea Manzoni

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) employ artificial neural networks to encode many-body wave functions in second quantization through variational Monte Carlo (VMC). They have recently been applied to accurately describe electronic wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Chang-su Cao , Dingshun Lv , Han-Shi Hu

Bayesian inference in deep neural networks is challenging due to the high-dimensional, strongly multi-modal parameter posterior density landscape. Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches asymptotically recover the true posterior but are…

High-quality random samples of quantum states are needed for a variety of tasks in quantum information and quantum computation. Searching the high-dimensional quantum state space for a global maximum of an objective function with many local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 Yi-Lin Seah , Jiangwei Shang , Hui Khoon Ng , David John Nott , Berthold-Georg Englert

Monte Carlo methods are widely used to estimate observables in many-body quantum systems. However, conventional sampling schemes often require a large number of samples to achieve sufficient accuracy. In this work we propose the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Wenxuan Zhang , Dingzu Wang , Dario Poletti

Sampling from complicated probability distributions is a hard computational problem arising in many fields, including statistical physics, optimization, and machine learning. Quantum computers have recently been used to sample from…

Neural networks are a promising tool for simulating quantum many body systems. Recently, it has been shown that neural network-based models describe quantum many body systems more accurately when they are constrained to have the correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Christopher Roth , Allan H. MacDonald

Markov chain Monte Carlo methods are a powerful tool for sampling equilibrium configurations in complex systems. One problem these methods often face is slow convergence over large energy barriers. In this work, we propose a novel method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Luigi Sbailò , Manuel Dibak , Frank Noé