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Quasi-Monte Carlo rules are equal weight quadrature rules defined over the domain $[0,1]^s$. Here we introduce quasi-Monte Carlo type rules for numerical integration of functions defined on $\mathbb{R}^s$. These rules are obtained by way of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-12 Josef Dick

This study presents a comparative analysis of Monte Carlo (MC) and quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods in the context of derivative pricing, emphasizing convergence rates and the curse of dimensionality. After a concise overview of traditional…

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There has been a surge of interest in uncertainty quantification for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) with Gevrey regular inputs. The Gevrey class contains functions that are infinitely smooth with a growth condition on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja

We present a universal parameter-free quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm designed to simulate arbitrary spin-$1/2$ Hamiltonians. To ensure the convergence of the Markov chain to equilibrium for every conceivable case, we devise a clear and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Lev Barash , Arman Babakhani , Itay Hen

Lattice rules and polynomial lattice rules are quadrature rules for approximating integrals over the $s$-dimensional unit cube. Since no explicit constructions of such quadrature methods are known for dimensions $s > 2$, one usually has to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Josef Dick , Peter Kritzer , Gunther Leobacher , Friedrich Pillichshammer

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) is a powerful method for evaluating high-dimensional integrals. However, its use is typically limited to distributions where direct sampling is straightforward, such as the uniform distribution on the unit hypercube…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Sifan Liu

We present LatNet Builder, a software tool to find good parameters for lattice rules, polynomial lattice rules, and digital nets in base 2, for quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) and randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) sampling over the…

Computation · Statistics 2021-09-07 Pierre L'Ecuyer , Pierre Marion , Maxime Godin , Florian Puchhammer

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration over unbounded domains $\mathbb{R}^s$ remains challenging due to the high dimensionality of sampling space and the boundary growth of the integrand. In applications such as uncertainty quantification…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Zexin Pan , Du Ouyang , Zhijian He

We analyze a new random algorithm for numerical integration of $d$-variate functions over $[0,1]^d$ from a weighted Sobolev space with dominating mixed smoothness $\alpha\ge 0$ and product weights $1\ge\gamma_1\ge\gamma_2\ge\cdots>0$, where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Peter Kritzer , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Mario Ullrich

The radial basis function (RBF) and quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are two very promising schemes to handle high-dimension problems with complex and moving boundary geometry due to the fact that they are independent of dimensionality and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W. Chen , J. He

We approximate $d$-variate periodic functions in weighted Korobov spaces with general weight parameters using $n$ function values at lattice points. We do not limit $n$ to be a prime number, as in currently available literature, but allow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Frances Y. Kuo , Weiwen Mo , Dirk Nuyens

This article provides an overview of some interfaces between the theory of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and applications. We summarize three QMC theoretical settings: first order QMC methods in the unit cube $[0,1]^s$ and in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are being adopted in statistical applications due to the increasingly challenging nature of numerical integrals that are now routinely encountered. For integrands with $d$-dimensions and derivatives of order…

Computation · Statistics 2016-04-04 Chris. J. Oates , Mark Girolami

We consider the approximate recovery of multivariate periodic functions from a discrete set of function values taken on a rank-$s$ integration lattice. The main result is the fact that any (non-)linear reconstruction algorithm taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Glenn Byrenheid , Lutz Kämmerer , Tino Ullrich , Toni Volkmer

Rank-1 lattice rules are a class of equally weighted quasi-Monte Carlo methods that achieve essentially linear convergence rates for functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) characterized by square-integrable first-order mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Vesa Kaarnioja , Ilja Klebanov , Claudia Schillings , Yuya Suzuki

The $\mathcal{L}_2$ discrepancy is one of several well-known quantitative measures for the equidistribution properties of point sets in the high-dimensional unit cube. The concept of weights was introduced by Sloan and Wo\'{z}niakowski to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Takashi Goda

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) sampling has been developed for integration over $[0,1]^s$ where it has superior accuracy to Monte Carlo (MC) for integrands of bounded variation. Scrambled net quadrature gives allows replication based error…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-11 K. Basu , A. B. Owen

We analyze the convergence of higher order Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) quadratures of solution-functionals to countably-parametric, nonlinear operator equations with distributed uncertain parameters taking values in a separable Banach space $X$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Josef Dick , Quoc T. Le Gia , Christoph Schwab

The classical approaches to numerically integrating a function $f$ are Monte Carlo (MC) and quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. MC methods use random samples to evaluate $f$ and have error $O(\sigma(f)/\sqrt{n})$, where $\sigma(f)$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Nikhil Bansal , Haotian Jiang

In this paper we investigate multivariate integration in weighted unanchored Sobolev spaces of smoothness of arbitrarily high order. As quadrature points we employ higher order polynomial lattice point sets over $\mathbb{F}_{2}$ which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Takashi Goda