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We present ScaleFree, a GPU-accelerated adaptive Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) algorithm for scalable, interactive multiscale point cloud exploration. With this technique, we cater to the massive datasets and complex multiscale structures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Lixiang Zhao , Fuqi Xie , Tobias Isenberg , Hai-Ning Liang , Lingyun Yu

Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool for studying the equilibrium properties of matter. In complex condensed-phase systems, however, it is difficult to design Monte Carlo moves with high acceptance probabilities that also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-27 Jerome P. Nilmeier , Gavin E. Crooks , David D. L. Minh , John D. Chodera

In this work we present a novel 3D Monte Carlo photon transport program for simulation of multiple refractive scattering based on the refractive properties of X-rays in highly scattering media, like lung tissue. Multiple scattering reduces…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. N. Khromova , L. Rigon , F. Arfelli , R. H. Menk , H. J. Besch , H. Plothow-Besch

We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells rather than photons allows us to separate local and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde , Floris F. S. van der Tak

The Iterative Quasi-Monte Carlo method, or iQMC, replaces standard quadrature techniques used in deterministic linear solvers with Quasi-Monte Carlo simulation for more accurate and efficient solutions to the neutron transport equation.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Samuel Pasmann , Ilham Variansyah , C. T. Kelley , Ryan G. McClarren

We apply the recently developed adaptive ensemble optimization technique to simulate dense Lennard-Jones fluids and a particle-solvent model by broad-histogram Monte Carlo techniques. Equilibration of the simulated fluid is improved by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Trebst , Emanuel Gull , Matthias Troyer

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) is a generative model renowned for its ability to produce high-quality outputs in tasks such as image and audio generation. However, training DPMs on large, high-dimensional datasets such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yunfei Wang , Ruoxi Jiang , Yingda Fan , Xiaowei Jia , Jens Eisert , Junyu Liu , Jin-Peng Liu

A method for tuning parameters in Monte Carlo generators is described and applied to a specific case. The method works in the following way: each observable is generated several times using different values of the parameters to be tuned.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-09 Alessandro Bacchetta , Hannes Jung , Albert Knutsson , Krzysztof Kutak , Federico von Samson-Himmelstjerna

Kernel density estimation is a technique for approximating probability distributions. Here, it is applied to the calculation of mutual information on a metric space. This is motivated by the problem in neuroscience of calculating the mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 R. Joshua Tobin , Conor J. Houghton

In order to find the equilibrium geometries of molecules and solids and to perform ab initio molecular dynamics, it is necessary to calculate the forces on the nuclei. We present a correlated sampling method to efficiently calculate…

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A recent line of research has exploited pre-trained generative diffusion models as priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems. We contribute to this research direction by designing a sequential Monte Carlo method for linear-Gaussian…

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In this work we investigate replacing standard quadrature techniques used in deterministic linear solvers with a fixed-seed Quasi-Monte Carlo calculation to obtain more accurate and efficient solutions to the neutron transport equation…

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Nuclear level densities are crucial for estimating statistical nuclear reaction rates. The shell model Monte Carlo method is a powerful approach for microscopic calculation of state densities in very large model spaces. However, these state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-29 Y. Alhassid , M. Bonett-Matiz , S. Liu , H. Nakada

KMCLib is a general framework for lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. The program can handle simulations of the diffusion and reaction of millions of particles in one, two, or three dimensions, and is designed to be easily…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Mikael Leetmaa , Natalia V. Skorodumova

The recently developed density matrix quantum Monte Carlo (DMQMC) algorithm stochastically samples the N -body thermal density matrix and hence provides access to exact properties of many-particle quantum systems at arbitrary temperatures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-15 Fionn D. Malone , N. S. Blunt , James J. Shepherd , D. K. K. Lee , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

We propose a generalization of our previous KDE (kernel density estimation) method for estimating luminosity functions (LFs). This new upgrade further extend the application scope of our KDE method, making it a very flexible approach which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Zunli Yuan , Xibin Zhang , Jiancheng Wang , Xiangming Cheng , Wenjie Wang

Radiative transfer describes the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through an interacting medium. This process is often simulated by the use of the Monte Carlo method, which involves the probabilistic determination and tracking of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is one of the most accurate techniques available for calculating the electronic properties of molecules and materials, yet it often remains a challenge to economically compute forces using this technique. As a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Cancan Huang , Brenda M. Rubenstein

In this paper, we introduce a robust nonparametric density estimator combining the popular Kernel Density Estimation method and the Median-of-Means principle (MoM-KDE). This estimator is shown to achieve robustness to any kind of anomalous…

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