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Langevin algorithms are popular Markov chain Monte Carlo methods that are often used to solve high-dimensional large-scale sampling problems in machine learning. The most classical Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm is based on the overdamped…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Nian Yao , Pervez Ali , Xihua Tao , Lingjiong Zhu

Many Monte Carlo light transport simulations use multiple importance sampling (MIS) to weight between different path sampling strategies. We propose to use the path throughput to compute the MIS weights instead of the commonly used…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Johannes Jendersie

A simple reweighting scheme is proposed for Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particle systems, permitting one to study various parameter values in a single study, and improving efficiency by an order of magnitude. Unlike earlier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ronald Dickman

In order to solve tasks like uncertainty quantification or hypothesis tests in Bayesian imaging inverse problems, we often have to draw samples from the arising posterior distribution. For the usually log-concave but high-dimensional…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-23 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lorenz Kuger , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We investigate a class of simple models for Langevin dynamics of turbulent flows, including the one-layer quasi-geostrophic equation and the two-dimensional Euler equations. Starting from a path integral representation of the transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-05 Freddy Bouchet , Jason Laurie , Oleg Zaboronski

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is one of the most powerful methods to sample from a given probability distribution, of which the Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Algorithm (MALA) is a variant wherein the gradient of the distribution is used…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-21 Mariya Mamajiwala , Debasish Roy , Serge Guillas

Models for vehicle dynamics play an important role in maneuver planning for automated driving. They are used to derive trajectories from given control inputs, or to evaluate a given trajectory in terms of constraint violation or optimality…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 J. R. Ziehn , M. Ruf , M. Roschani , J. Beyerer

We present three algorithms for calculating rate constants and sampling transition paths for rare events in simulations with stochastic dynamics. The methods do not require a priori knowledge of the phase space density and are suitable for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Rosalind J. Allen , Daan Frenkel , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Dynamical reweighting of path measures is a powerful approach for accurately evaluating slow molecular processes using modified potential energy surfaces used in enhanced sampling methods. Integrating this reweighting framework into the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Sascha Jähnigen , Bettina G. Keller

In this work we set the stage for a new probabilistic pathwise approach to effectively calibrate a general class of stochastic nonlinear fluid dynamics models. We focus on a 2D Euler SALT equation, showing that the driving stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Oana Lang , Wei Pan

New simulation approaches to evaluating path-dependent options without matrix inversion issues nor Euler bias are evaluated. They employ three main contributions: Stochastic approximation replaces regression in the LSM algorithm; Explicit…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-13 Michael A. Kouritzin

Dynamical reweighting methods permit to estimate kinetic observables of a stochastic process governed by a target potential $\tilde{V}(x)$ from trajectories that have been generated at a different potential $V(x)$. In this article, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Luca Donati , Marcus Weber , Bettina G. Keller

Bayesian methods of sampling from a posterior distribution are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to precisely display the uncertainty of a model fit. Classical methods based on iterative random sampling and posterior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-04 Jacopo Guidolin , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Ondřej Kuželka

We show that complex Langevin simulation converges to a wrong result, by relating it to the Lefschetz-thimble path integral, when the path-integral weight has different phases among dominant complex saddle points. Equilibrium solution of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-02-07 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Yuya Tanizaki

Recovering unbiased kinetic and thermodynamic observables from the enhanced sampling simulations is a central challenge in rare-event sampling. Classical Girsanov Reweighting (GR) offers a principled solution by yielding exact pathwise…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-21 Yan Wang , Hao Wu , Simon Olsson

We provide a new paradigm for quantum simulation that is based on path integration that allows quantum speedups to be observed for problems that are more naturally expressed using the path integral formalism rather than the conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Serene Shum , Nathan Wiebe

The properties of molecules and materials containing light nuclei are affected by their quantum mechanical nature. Modelling these quantum nuclear effects accurately requires computationally demanding path integral techniques. Considerable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Venkat Kapil , David M. Wilkins , Jinggang Lan , Michele Ceriotti

A path integral formalism for non-equilibrium systems is proposed based on a manifold of quasi-equilibrium densities. A generalized Boltzmann principle is used to weight manifold paths with the exponential of minus the information…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Richard Kleeman

Free-energy-based adaptive biasing methods, such as Metadynamics, the Adaptive Biasing Force (ABF) and their variants, are enhanced sampling algorithms widely used in molecular simulations. Although their efficiency has been empirically…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Tony Lelièvre , Xuyang Lin , Pierre Monmarché

A significant challenge in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is ensuring that sampled configurations converge to the equilibrium or nonequilibrium stationary distribution of interest. Lack of convergence constrains the estimation of free…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Sagar Kania , Robert J. Webber , Gideon Simpson , David Aristoff , Daniel M. Zuckerman