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The sparse pseudo-input Gaussian process (SPGP) is a new approximation method for speeding up GP regression in the case of a large number of data points N. The approximation is controlled by the gradient optimization of a small set of M…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Edward Snelson , Zoubin Ghahramani

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

In this paper, we present an efficient Particle-In-Cell algorithm for the simulation of the three dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system in the presence of a strong external magnetic field. When the intensity of the magnetic field is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Francis Filbet , Chang Yang

Particle smoothers are widely used algorithms allowing to approximate the smoothing distribution in hidden Markov models. Existing algorithms often suffer from slow computational time or degeneracy. We propose in this paper a way to improve…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-28 Cyrille Dubarry , Randal Douc

We propose a sparse grids based adaptive noise reduction strategy for electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. Our approach is based on the key idea of relying on sparse grids instead of a regular grid in order to increase the…

This paper is devoted to different modifications of two standard softenings of the gravitational attraction (namely the Plummer and Hernquist softenings), which are commonly used in cosmological simulations based on the particle-particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Maxim Eingorn

We introduce an efficient and accurate alternative to full hydrodynamic simulations, Hydro-PM (HPM), for the study of the low column density Lyman-alpha forest. It consists of a Particle-Mesh solver, modified to compute, in addition to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Lam Hui

We present Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (PPPM) and Tree Particle-Mesh (TreePM) implementations on GRAPE-5 and GRAPE-6A systems, special-purpose hardware accelerators for gravitational many-body simulations. In our PPPM and TreePM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Yoshikawa , Toshiyuki Fukushige

In this paper, we present a novel approach to approximate the gain function of the feedback particle filter (FPF). The exact gain function is the solution of a Poisson equation involving a probability-weighted Laplacian. The numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 S. Yagiz Olmez , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G. Mehta

The numerical approximation of partial differential equations (PDEs) using neural networks has seen significant advancements through Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). Despite their straightforward optimization framework and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Namgyu Kang , Jaemin Oh , Youngjoon Hong , Eunbyung Park

We present a computational algorithm for computing short range forces between particles. The algorithm has two distinguishing features. First, it is optimized for multi-processor computers, and will use as many processors as are available.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert C. Ferrell , Edmund Bertschinger

We propose a new smoothing method for obtaining surface densities from discrete particle positions from numerical simulations. This is an essential step for many applications in gravitational lensing. This method is based on the ``scatter''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Guo-Liang Li , S. Mao , Y. P. Jing , X. Kang , M. Bartelmann

Bayesian methods are appealing in their flexibility in modeling complex data and ability in capturing uncertainty in parameters. However, when Bayes' rule does not result in tractable closed-form, most approximate inference algorithms lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Bo Dai , Niao He , Hanjun Dai , Le Song

We present MGLenS, a large series of modified gravity lensing simulations tailored for cosmic shear data analyses and forecasts in which cosmological and modified gravity parameters are varied simultaneously. Based on the FORGE and BRIDGE…

This report describes a modification of the orthogonal function Poisson solver for n-body simulations that minimizes relaxation caused by small particle number fluctuations. With the standard algorithm, the noise leading to relaxation can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Martin D. Weinberg

We present a new sink particle algorithm developed for the Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES. Our main addition is the use of a clump finder to identify density peaks and their associated regions (the peak patches). This allows us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andreas Bleuler , Romain Teyssier

This research presents the development of an innovative algorithm tailored for the adaptive sampling of residual points within the framework of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). By addressing the limitations inherent in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Shikhar Nilabh , Fidel Grandia

We describe a parallel, cosmological N-body code based on a hybrid scheme using the particle-mesh (PM) and Barnes-Hut (BH) oct-tree algorithm. We call the algorithm GOTPM for Grid-of-Oct-Trees-Particle-Mesh. The code is parallelized using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John Dubinski , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park , Robin Humble

Common time-explicit numerical methods for kinetic simulations of plasmas in the low-collisions limit fall into two classes of algorithms: momentum conserving and energy conserving. Each has certain drawbacks. The PIC algorithm does not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. G. Evstatiev , B. A. Shadwick

In particle simulations, the weights of particles determine how many physical particles they represent. Adaptively adjusting these weights can greatly improve the efficiency of the simulation, without creating severe nonphysical artifacts.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 Jannis Teunissen , Ute Ebert