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We consider Monte Carlo simulations of classical spin models of statistical mechanics using the massively parallel architecture provided by graphics processing units (GPUs). We discuss simulations of models with discrete and continuous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Martin Weigel , Taras Yavors'kii

Efficient continuous time quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) algorithms that do not suffer from time discretization errors have become the state-of-the-art for most discrete quantum models. They have not been widely used yet for fermionic quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 Mauro Iazzi , Matthias Troyer

With the developed "extended Monte Calro" (EMC) algorithm, we have studied the depinning transition in Ising-type lattice models by extensive numerical simulations, taking the random-field Ising model with a driving field and the driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-20 Lisha Sia , Xiaoyun Liao , Nengji Zhou

We construct a new framework for accelerating Markov chain Monte Carlo in posterior sampling problems where standard methods are limited by the computational cost of the likelihood, or of numerical models embedded therein. Our approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-06 Patrick R. Conrad , Youssef M. Marzouk , Natesh S. Pillai , Aaron Smith

When performing a Monte Carlo calculation, the running time should in principle be much longer than the autocorrelation time in order to get reliable results. Among different lattice fermion models, the Holstein model is notorious for its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-18 Meng Yao , Da Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang

This work presents an efficient approach for accelerating multilevel Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling for large-scale problems using low-fidelity machine learning models. While conventional techniques for large-scale Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-21 Sohail Reddy , Hillary Fairbanks

In the last few decades, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have been widely applied to Bayesian updating of structural dynamic models in the field of structural health monitoring. Recently, several MCMC algorithms have been developed…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-29 Xianghao Meng , James L. Beck , Yong Huang , Hui Li

We provide an extension to lattice systems of the reptation quantum Monte Carlo algorithm, originally devised for continuous Hamiltonians. For systems affected by the sign problem, a method to systematically improve upon the so-called…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-26 Giuseppe Carleo , Federico Becca , Saverio Moroni , Stefano Baroni

We introduce a new Monte Carlo method for pure gauge theories. It is not intended for use with dynamical fermions. It belongs to the class of Local Hybrid Monte Carlo (LHMC) algorithms, which make use of the locality of the action by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 A. D. Kennedy , K. M. Bitar

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

We employ constrained path Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) in the pursuit of studying physical nuclear systems using a lattice formalism. Since AFQMC has been widely used in the study of condensed-matter systems such as the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-16 Ryan Curry , Jayani Dissanayake , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

We present a mathematical framework for constructing and analyzing parallel algorithms for lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. The resulting algorithms have the capacity to simulate a wide range of spatio-temporal scales in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Giorgos Arampatzis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plechac , Michela Taufer , Lifan Xu

This review gives an overview on the research of algorithms for dynamical fermions used in large scale lattice QCD simulations. First a short overview on the state-of-the-art of ensemble generation at the physical point is given. Followed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-20 Jacob Finkenrath

We generalize the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm with a stack of neural network layers and evaluate its ability to sample from different topologies in a two dimensional lattice gauge theory. We demonstrate that our model is able to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-05-10 Sam Foreman , Xiao-Yong Jin , James C. Osborn

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

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are often used for approximate inference inside learning, but their slow mixing can be difficult to diagnose and the approximations can seriously degrade learning. To alleviate these issues, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

In many computational problems, using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) can be prohibitively time-consuming. We propose MCMC-Net, a simple yet efficient way to accelerate MCMC via neural networks. The key idea of our approach is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sudeb Majee , Anuj Abhishek , Thilo Strauss , Taufiquar Khan

We report developments of the kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method with improved accuracy and increased versatility for the description of atomic diffusivity on metal surfaces. The on-lattice constraint built into our recently proposed…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-27 Oleg Trushin , Handan Yildirim , Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman

Monte Carlo algorithms are a foundational pillar of modern computational science, yet their effective application hinges on a deep understanding of their performance trade offs. This paper presents a critical analysis of the evolution of…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-23 Ravi Prasad

An efficient Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of bosonic systems on a lattice in a grand canonical ensemble is proposed. It is based on the mapping of bosonic models to the spin models in the limit of the infinite total spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jurij Smakov , Kenji Harada , Naoki Kawashima