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In many classification problems it is desirable to output well-calibrated probabilities on the different classes. We propose a robust, non-parametric method of calibrating probabilities called SplineCalib that utilizes smoothing splines to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Brian Lucena

The nuclear shell model is known to describe the properties of various nuclei extremely well. However, the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo calculations cannot be applied to it with general interactions due to the sign problem. The model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Yuhma Asano , Yuta Ito , Jun Nishimura , Noritaka Shimizu

We study numerical methods for the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) with a positive Prony series memory kernel, in which case the GLE can be written in an extended variable Markovian formalism. We propose a new splitting method that is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Manh Hong Duong , Xiaocheng Shang

The complex Langevin method is a leading candidate for solving the sign problem occurring in various physical situations, notably QCD at finite chemical potential. Its most vexing problem is `convergence to the wrong limit', where the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-10-27 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James , Erhard Seiler , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

The complex Langevin method is a general method to treat systems with complex action, such as QCD at nonzero density. The formal justification relies on the absence of certain boundary terms, both at infinity and at the unavoidable poles of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-03 Erhard Seiler

Recently there has been remarkable progress in solving the sign problem, which occurs in investigating statistical systems with a complex weight. The two promising methods, the complex Langevin method and the Lefschetz thimble method, share…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

In this paper, new Levin methods are presented for calculating oscillatory integrals with algebraic and/or logarithmic singularities. To avoid singularity, the technique of singularity separation is applied and then the singular ODE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Yinkun Wang , Shuhuang Xiang

We discuss how to derive a Langevin equation (LE) in non standard systems, i.e. when the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian is not the usual quadratic function. This generalization allows to consider also cases with negative absolute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-12 M. Baldovin , A. Puglisi , A. Vulpiani

The classical Langevin Monte Carlo method looks for samples from a target distribution by descending the samples along the gradient of the target distribution. The method enjoys a fast convergence rate. However, the numerical cost is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-07 Zhiyan Ding , Qin Li

We extend the L\'evy Langevin Monte Carlo method studied by Oechsler in 2024 to the setting of a target distribution with heavy tails: Choosing a target distribution from the class of subexponential distributions we prove convergence of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Anita Behme , Claudius Lütke Schwienhorst

The dynamics of weakly coupled, non-abelian gauge fields at high temperature is non-perturbative if the characteristic momentum scale is of order |k|~ g^2 T. Such a situation is typical for the processes of electroweak baryon number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 Claus Zahlten , Andres Hernandez , Michael G. Schmidt

An noise-induced mechanism has been revealed by some authors recently for the homochirality in a chiral system. Motivated by such stochastic process, we study the noise-induced transition in the system. The chiral transition, say the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-03 Li Wan , Yunmi Huang , Xiaoshan Zhu

We study the Stephanov model, which is an RMT model for QCD at finite density, using the Complex Langevin algorithm. Naive implementation of the algorithm shows convergence towards the phase quenched or quenched theory rather than to…

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We study sampling as optimization in the space of measures. We focus on gradient flow-based optimization with the Langevin dynamics as a case study. We investigate the source of the bias of the unadjusted Langevin algorithm (ULA) in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Andre Wibisono

We present efficient finite difference estimators for goal-oriented sensitivity indices with applications to the generalized Langevin equation (GLE). In particular, we apply these estimators to analyze an extended variable formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Eric Joseph Hall , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet

Growth in both size and complexity of modern data challenges the applicability of traditional likelihood-based inference. Composite likelihood (CL) methods address the difficulties related to model selection and computational intractability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Zhendong Huang , Davide Ferrari

Bayesian inference in complex generative models is often obstructed by the absence of tractable likelihoods and the infeasibility of computing gradients of high-dimensional simulators. Existing likelihood-free methods for generalized…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-05 Diksha Bhandari , Sebastian Reich

One of the yet unsolved questions of QCD in the context of the Standard Model is to explain the strong CP problem. A way to look for a better understanding of it is to investigate the theory in the presence of a non-zero topological theta…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-05 Lorenzo Bongiovanni , Gert Aarts , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty

Coupling arguments are a central tool for bounding the deviation between two stochastic processes, but traditionally have been limited to Wasserstein metrics. In this paper, we apply the shifted composition rule--an information-theoretic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Jason M. Altschuler , Sinho Chewi

We use field theoretic renormalization group methods to study the critical behavior of a recently proposed Langevin equation for driven lattice gases under infinitely fast drive. We perform an expansion around the upper critical dimension,…

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