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Graph clustering problems typically aim to partition the graph nodes such that two nodes belong to the same partition set if and only if they are similar. Correlation Clustering is a graph clustering formulation which: (1) takes as input a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

Clustering is a commonplace problem in many areas of data science, with applications in biology and bioinformatics, understanding chemical structure, image segmentation, building recommender systems, and many more fields. While there are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Tareq Zaman , Nicolas Nytko , Ali Taghibakhshi , Scott MacLachlan , Luke Olson , Matthew West

We propose a randomized algorithm to compute the log-partition function of weakly interacting fermions with polynomial runtime in both the system size and precision. Although weakly interacting fermionic systems are considered tractable for…

Clustering may be the most fundamental problem in unsupervised learning which is still active in machine learning research because its importance in many applications. Popular methods like K-means, may suffer from instability as they are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Yancheng Yuan , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

A review of the Loop Algorithm, its generalizations, and its relation to some other Monte Carlo techniques is given. The loop algorithm is a Quantum Monte Carlo procedure which employs nonlocal changes of worldline configurations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-13 H. G. Evertz

We point out that Monte Carlo simulations of theories with severe sign problems can be profitably performed over manifolds in complex space different from the one with fixed imaginary part of the action. We describe a family of such…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-03-22 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Gregory W. Ridgway , Neill C. Warrington

The infamous sign problem leads to an exponential complexity in Monte Carlo simulations of generic many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, many phases of matter are known to admit a sign-problem-free representative, allowing efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-14 Omri Golan , Adam Smith , Zohar Ringel

Lattice gauge theories coupled to fermionic matter account for many interesting phenomena in both high energy physics and condensed matter physics. Certain regimes, e.g. at finite fermion density, are difficult to simulate with traditional…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-16 Julian Bender , Patrick Emonts , J. Ignacio Cirac

Connected clustering denotes a family of constrained clustering problems in which we are given a distance metric and an undirected connectivity graph $G$ that can be completely unrelated to the metric. The aim is to partition the $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jan Eube , Heiko Röglin

Numerical simulations based on electronic structure calculations are finding ever growing applications in many areas of physics. A major limiting factor is however the cubic scaling of the algorithms used. Building on previous work [F. R.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Florian R. Krajewski , Michele Parrinello

Monte Carlo simulations away from half-filling suffer from a sign problem that can be reduced by deforming the contour of integration. Such a transformation, which induces a Jacobian determinant in the Boltzmann weight, can be implemented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Marcel Rodekamp , Evan Berkowitz , Christoph Gäntgen , Stefan Krieg , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer

The path integral formulation of quantum mechanical problems including fermions is often affected by a severe numerical sign problem. We show how such a sign problem can be alleviated by a judiciously chosen constant imaginary offset to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-23 Christoph Gäntgen , Evan Berkowitz , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Marcel Rodekamp

This article gives an introduction to the multilevel blocking (MLB) approach to both the fermion and the dynamical sign problem in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations. MLB is able to substantially relieve the sign problem in many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Egger , C. H. Mak

An exact, nonlocal, finite step-size algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation of theories with dynamical fermions is proposed. The algorithm is based on obtaining the new configuration U' from the old one U by solving the equation $ M(U') \eta…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Bakeyev

Precise understanding of strongly interacting fermions, from electrons in modern materials to nuclear matter, presents a major goal in modern physics. However, the theoretical description of interacting Fermi systems is usually plagued by…

We present a real-time quantum Monte Carlo algorithm that simulates the dynamics of open quantum systems by stochastically compressing and evolving the density matrix under both Markovian and non-Markovian master equations. Our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Tong Shen , Daniel A. Lidar

In this research, a general theoretical framework for clustering is proposed over specific partial algebraic systems by the present author. Her theory helps in isolating minimal assumptions necessary for different concepts of clustering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-10 A. Mani

We review Sweeny's algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations of the random cluster model. Straightforward implementations suffer from the problem of computational critical slowing down, where the computational effort per edge operation scales…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Eren Metin Elçi , Martin Weigel

The fermion sign problem remains the primary obstacle in simulating the thermodynamic properties of various fermionic systems. In this work, we present a sign-blocking method to mitigate the numerical instability inherent in the sign…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

The clustering of a data set is one of the core tasks in data analytics. Many clustering algorithms exhibit a strong contrast between a favorable performance in practice and bad theoretical worst-cases. Prime examples are least-squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 S. Borgwardt , F. Happach