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Autoregressive models are a class of generative model that probabilistically predict the next output of a sequence based on previous inputs. The autoregressive sequence is by definition one-dimensional (1D), which is natural for language…

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Autoregressive Neural Networks based on dense or convolutional layers have recently been shown to be a viable strategy for generating classical spin systems. Unlike these methods, sampling with transformers is commonly considered to be…

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Efficient sampling of complex high-dimensional probability distributions is a central task in computational science. Machine learning methods like autoregressive neural networks, used with Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, provide good…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-11 Dian Wu , Riccardo Rossi , Giuseppe Carleo

We study self-programming in recurrent neural networks where both neurons (the `processors') and synaptic interactions (`the programme') evolve in time simultaneously, according to specific coupled stochastic equations. The interactions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T Uezu , A C C Coolen

Memory networks are neural networks with an explicit memory component that can be both read and written to by the network. The memory is often addressed in a soft way using a softmax function, making end-to-end training with backpropagation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-25 Sarath Chandar , Sungjin Ahn , Hugo Larochelle , Pascal Vincent , Gerald Tesauro , Yoshua Bengio

While we are usually focused on forecasting future values of time series, it is often valuable to additionally predict their entire probability distributions, e.g. to evaluate risk, Monte Carlo simulations. On example of time series of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Jarek Duda

Latent position models are widely used for the analysis of networks in a variety of research fields. In fact, these models possess a number of desirable theoretical properties, and are particularly easy to interpret. However, statistical…

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Quantum Monte-Carlo simulations of hybrid quantum-classical models such as the double exchange Hamiltonian require calculating the density of states of the quantum degrees of freedom at every step. Unfortunately, the computational…

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The models in statistical physics such as an Ising model offer a convenient way to characterize stationary activity of neural populations. Such stationary activity of neurons may be expected for recordings from in vitro slices or…

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We study a simple model for a neuron function in a collective brain system. The neural network is composed of uncorrelated random scale-free network for eliminating the degree correlation of dynamical processes. The interaction of neurons…

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Monte Carlo simulations are methods for simulating statistical systems. The aim is to generate a representative ensemble of configurations to access thermodynamical quantities without the need to solve the system analytically or to perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jean-Charles Walter , Gerard Barkema

We propose a dynamical neural network model with a hierarchical and modular structure. The network architecture can be derived by minimizing an energy function that is originally designed based on two kinds of neurons with quite different…

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In this article, we have employed Monte Carlo simulations to study the Ising model on a two-dimensional additive small-world network (A-SWN). The system model consists of a LxL square lattice where each site of the lattice is occupied for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-19 R. A. Dumer , M. Godoy

Ising models with pairwise interactions are the least structured, or maximum-entropy, probability distributions that exactly reproduce measured pairwise correlations between spins. Here we use this equivalence to construct Ising models that…

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Monte Carlo methods are essential across diverse scientific fields, yet their efficiency is frequently hampered by critical slowing down-a sharp increase in autocorrelation times near phase transitions. Although deep learning approaches,…

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We present a fast, hierarchical, and adaptive algorithm for Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions that reproduces the dynamics of a standard implementation exactly, i.e., the generated configurations and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Fabio Müller , Henrik Christiansen , Stefan Schnabel , Wolfhard Janke

Computing free energy is a fundamental problem in statistical physics. Recently, two distinct methods have been developed and have demonstrated remarkable success: the tensor-network-based contraction method and the neural-network-based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hanyan Cao , Yijia Wang , Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

Applications of neural networks to data analyses in natural sciences are complicated by the fact that many inputs are subject to systematic uncertainties. To control the dependence of the neural network function to variations of the input…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-02-25 Stefan Wunsch , Simon Jörger , Roger Wolf , Günter Quast

This paper develops algorithms for high-dimensional stochastic control problems based on deep learning and dynamic programming. Unlike classical approximate dynamic programming approaches, we first approximate the optimal policy by means of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Côme Huré , Huyên Pham , Achref Bachouch , Nicolas Langrené

In recent years, there is a growing interest in combining techniques attributed to the areas of Statistics and Machine Learning in order to obtain the benefits of both approaches. In this article, the statistical technique lasso for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-08 David Delgado , Ernesto Curbelo , Danae Carreras