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Bayesian inference requires approximation methods to become computable, but for most of them it is impossible to quantify how close the approximation is to the true posterior. In this work, we present a theorem upper-bounding the KL…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-27 Guillaume P. Dehaene

Complex Langevin simulations provide an alternative to sample path integrals with complex weights and therefore are suited to determine the phase diagram of QCD from first principles. We use our proposed method of Dynamic Stabilisation (DS)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-07-20 Gert Aarts , Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger , Dénes Sexty

We present the results of continuum-extrapolated lattice simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) above the crossover temperature and for unprecedentedly high baryon densities at the physical point, employing the complex Langevin…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-22 Michael Mandl , Dénes Sexty , Daniel Unterhuber

The complex Langevin method is one hopeful candidate to tackle the sign problem. This method is applicable not only to QCD but also to nonrelativistic field theory, such as condensed matter physics. We present the simulation results of a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-04 Arata Yamamoto , Tomoya Hayata

We consider the numerical integration of Langevin equations for particles in a channel, in the presence of boundary conditions fixing the concentration values at the ends. This kind of boundary condition appears for instance when…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Laureano Ramírez-Piscina

Monte Carlo simulation of gauge theories with a $\theta$ term is known to be extremely difficult due to the sign problem. Recently there has been major progress in solving this problem based on the idea of complexifying dynamical variables.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-05-08 Mitsuaki Hirasawa , Akira Matsumoto , Jun Nishimura , Atis Yosprakob

Simulations of QCD are known to suffer from serious critical slowing down towards the continuum limit. This is particularly prominent in the topological charge. We investigate the severeness of the problem in the range of lattice spacings…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 Stefan Schaefer , Rainer Sommer , Francesco Virotta

We present upper and lower bounds for the prediction error of the Lasso. For the case of random Gaussian design, we show that under mild conditions the prediction error of the Lasso is up to smaller order terms dominated by the prediction…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Sara van de Geer

A positive representation for a set of complex densities is constructed. In particular, complex measures on a direct product of U(1) groups are studied. After identifying general conditions which such representations should satisfy, several…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Erhard Seiler , Jacek Wosiek

Motivated, roughly, by comparing the mean and median of an IID sum of bounded lattice random variables, we develop explicit and effective bounds on the errors involved in the one-term Edgeworth expansion for such sums.

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-25 J. P. Buhler , A. C. Gamst , R. L. Graham , A. W. Hales

We investigate the applicability of complex Langevin dynamics to the three-dimensional XY model at finite chemical potential. To assess correctness, we introduce a new diagnostic based on the configurational temperature (or configurational…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-17 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

Complex Langevin dynamics can be used to perform numerical simulations of theories with a complex action. In order to justify the procedure, it is important to understand the properties of the real and positive distribution, which is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-09-13 Pietro Giudice , Gert Aarts , Erhard Seiler

We first test the Complex Langevin method (CLE) on various simple models. We then introduce the method of Gauge Cooling to control the dynamics of the process and ensure thin distributions in the imaginary direction. We finally apply CLE…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-10-29 Gert Aarts , Lorenzo Bongiovanni , Erhard Seiler , Denes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

This paper considers a finite sample perspective on the problem of identifying an LTI system from a finite set of possible systems using trajectory data. To this end, we use the maximum likelihood estimator to identify the true system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Nicolas Chatzikiriakos , Andrea Iannelli

Real time evolution of a scalar field theory is investigated. The severe sign problem is circumvented using the Complex Langevin equation. The naive application of the method breaks down for extended real times due to the appearance of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-03-03 Daniel Alvestad , Alexander Rothkopf , Dénes Sexty

The three-dimensional XY model is studied at finite chemical potential using complex Langevin dynamics. The validity of the approach is probed at small chemical potential using imaginary chemical potential and continuity arguments, and at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-21 Gert Aarts , Frank A. James

Statistical sampling with the complex Langevin (CL) equation is applied to (0+1)-dimensional Thirring model, and its uniform-field variant, at finite fermion chemical potential $\mu$. The CL simulation reproduces a crossover behavior which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-10-25 Hirotsugu Fujii , Syo Kamata , Yoshio Kikukawa

The complex Langevin method is extended to full QCD at non-zero chemical potential. The use of gauge cooling stabilizes the simulations at small enough lattice spacings. At large fermion mass the results are compared to the HQCD approach,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-03-19 Denes Sexty

Recent progress of the complex Langevin method and the Lefschetz thimble in connection with the sign problem is reviewed. These methods rely on the complexification of the original field manifold and they allow direct simulations of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-12-01 Denes Sexty

Previous work has shown that reasoning with real-time temporal logics is often simpler when restricted to models with bounded variability---where no more than v events may occur every V time units, for given v, V. When reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Carlo A. Furia , Paola Spoletini