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To understand and predict the performance of scientific applications, several analytical and machine learning approaches have been proposed, each having its advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we propose and validate a hybrid…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Huda Ibeid , Siping Meng , Oliver Dobon , Luke Olson , William Gropp

In this paper we propose a hybrid model of a neural oscillator, obtained by partially discretizing a well-known continuous model. Our construction points out that in this case the standard techniques, based on replacing sigmoids with step…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Alberto Casagrande , Tommaso Dreossi , Carla Piazza

In this note we report an improved determination of the scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the 3d Ising model using the conformal bootstrap. We also show how this data can be used as input to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-04 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland , Junchen Rong , Ning Su

Recent numerical results point to the existence of a conformally invariant twist defect in the critical 3d Ising model. In this note we show that this fact is supported by both epsilon expansion and conformal bootstrap calculations. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Davide Gaiotto , Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

Regularization is an important component of predictive model building. The hybrid bootstrap is a regularization technique that functions similarly to dropout except that features are resampled from other training points rather than replaced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-24 Robert Kosar , David W. Scott

Using the numerical modular bootstrap, we constrain the space of 1+1d CFTs with a finite non-invertible global symmetry described by a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. We derive universal and rigorous upper bounds on the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

The numerical conformal bootstrap has become in the last 15 years an indispensable tool for studying strongly coupled CFTs in various dimensions. Here we review the main developments in the field in the last 5 years, since the appearance of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-31 Slava Rychkov , Ning Su

We develop new methods for approximating conformal blocks as positive functions times polynomials, with applications to the numerical bootstrap. We argue that to obtain accurate bootstrap bounds, conformal block approximations should…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Cyuan-Han Chang , Vasiliy Dommes , Petr Kravchuk , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

Recent years have seen significant advances in quantum/quantum-inspired technologies capable of approximately searching for the ground state of Ising spin Hamiltonians. The promise of leveraging such technologies to accelerate the solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Robin Brown , David E. Bernal Neira , Davide Venturelli , Marco Pavone

We develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global and coarse-grained probe of the operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Li-Yuan Chiang , David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We suggest a way to implement conformal bootstrap program for the case of the ${\cal N}=1$ SCFT in three dimensions using the previous analysis of the Ising model in \cite{CB}. We find approximate values for the conformal dimensions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-31 Denis Bashkirov

We study the statistical Ising model of spins on the infinite lattice using a bootstrap method that combines spin-flip identities with positivity conditions, including reflection positivity and Griffiths inequalities, to derive rigorous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-04 Minjae Cho , Barak Gabai , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Victor A. Rodriguez , Joshua Sandor , Xi Yin

The rapid growth of e-commerce has placed considerable pressure on customs representatives, prompting advanced methods. In tackling this, Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have emerged as a promising approach to minimize the risks faced.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Otmane Amel , Sedrick Stassin , Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi , Xavier Siebert

We continue our study of the defect CFT on a Maldacena-Wilson line in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory using Bootstrability -- the conformal bootstrap supplemented with exact integrability data. In this paper, we extend this program to charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Julius Julius , Michelangelo Preti , Nika Sergeevna Sokolova

Bootstrap embedding (BE) is a recently developed electronic structure method that has shown great success at treating electron correlation in molecules. Here, we extend BE to treat surfaces and solids where the wave function is represented…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-18 Oinam Romesh Meitei , Troy Van Voorhis

In this thesis, we introduce new tools for the conformal bootstrap, autoboot and qboot. Each tool solves a different step in the whole computational stack, and combined with an existing efficient tool SDPB which solves semidefinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-09 Mocho Go

We explain how the axioms of Conformal Field Theory are used to make predictions about critical exponents of continuous phase transitions in three dimensions, via a procedure called the conformal bootstrap. The method assumes conformal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Slava Rychkov

The numerical conformal bootstrap is used to study mixed correlators in $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in $d=4$ spacetime dimensions. Systems of four-point functions involving scalar chiral and real operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , Andreas Stergiou

Applications of the bootstrap program to superconformal field theories promise unique new insights into their landscape and could even lead to the discovery of new models. Most existing results of the superconformal bootstrap were obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-12 Martina Cornagliotto , Madalena Lemos , Volker Schomerus

The analytic conformal bootstrap is an array of techniques to characterize, constrain, and solve strongly interacting quantum field theories using symmetries, causality, unitarity, and other general principles. In the last decade, bolstered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazac , David Simmons-Duffin , Alexander Zhiboedov