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Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), also known as particle filters, has been widely accepted as a powerful computational tool for making inference with dynamical systems. A key step in SMC is resampling, which plays the role of steering the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-08 Yichao Li , Wenshuo Wang , Ke Deng , Jun S Liu

Monte Carlo methods are now a definitively well established methods for studying the transport of charges in semiconductors. A lot of drawbacks are however present about the correct reconstruction of the distribution function, which has to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Marco Coco

Relying on Feynman-Kac path-integral methodology, we present a new statistical perspective on wave single-scattering by complex three-dimensional objects. The approach is implemented on three models -- Schiff approximation, Born…

An algorithm for creating synthetic telescope images of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) density fields is presented, which utilises the adaptive nature of the SPH formalism in full. The imaging process uses Monte Carlo Radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

Purpose: Multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) poses a challenge in proton CT (pCT) image reconstruction. The assumption of straight paths is replaced with Bayesian models of the most likely path (MLP). Current MLP-based pCT reconstruction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Mark Brooke , Scott Penfold

In this article we consider recursive approximations of the smoothing distribution associated to partially observed stochastic differential equations (SDEs), which are observed discretely in time. Such models appear in a wide variety of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-15 Jeremie Houssineau , Ajay Jasra , Sumeetpal S. Singh

We present a hybrid method for time-dependent particle transport problems that combines Monte Carlo (MC) estimation with deterministic solutions based on discrete ordinates. For spatial discretizations, the MC algorithm computes a piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Johannes Krotz , Cory D. Hauck , Ryan G. McClarren

Adjoint methods form a class of importance sampling methods that are used to accelerate Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of transport equations. Ideally, adjoint methods allow for zero-variance MC estimators provided that the solution to an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Guillaume Bal , Ian Langmore

Radiative transfer simulation is an important tool that allows us to generate synthetic images of various astrophysical objects. In the case of complex three-dimensional geometries, a Monte Carlo-based method that simulates photon packages…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

In this manuscript, we present a novel approach for sampling from a continuous multivariate probability distribution, which may either be explicitly known (up to a normalization factor) or represented via empirical samples. Our method…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Hamidreza Behjoo , Michael Chertkov

We describe a path-integral ground-state quantum Monte Carlo method for light nuclei in continuous space. We show how to efficiently update and sample the paths with spin-isospin dependent and spin-orbit interactions. We apply the method to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-28 Rong Chen , Kevin E. Schmidt

Although Monte Carlo path tracing is a simple and effective algorithm to synthesize photo-realistic images, it is often very slow to converge to noise-free results when involving complex global illumination. One of the most successful…

For the rendering of multiple scattering effects in participating media, methods based on the diffusion approximation are an extremely efficient alternative to Monte Carlo path tracing. However, in sufficiently transparent regions,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-04-01 David Koerner , Jamie Portsmouth , Filip Sadlo , Thomas Ertl , Bernd Eberhardt

The recently introduced non-iterative imaging method entitled \enquote{direct sampling method} (DSM) is known to be fast, robust, and effective for inverse scattering problems in the multi-static configuration but fails when applied to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Sangwoo Kang , Marc Lambert , Won-Kwang Park

Shrinkage strains measured from microstructural simulations using the mesoscale kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) model for solid state sintering are discussed. This model represents the microstructure using digitized discrete sites that are either…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-30 R. Bjørk , H. L. Frandsen , V. Tikare , E. Olevsky , N. Pryds

We implement a comprehensive simulation of photon surface interactions using a Monte Carlo approach. This is effective in simulating the interaction of light with telescope mirrors and lenses. We use a full electromagnetic solution to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 J. R. Peterson , D. Valls-Gabaud , A. Dutta , C. Kim , G. Sembroski

We address the problem of sampling double-ended diffusive paths. The ensemble of paths is expressed using a symmetric version of the Onsager-Machlup formula, which only requires evaluation of the force field and which, upon direct time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-27 Thomas F. Miller , Cristian Predescu

Monte Carlo sampling techniques are used to estimate high-dimensional integrals that model the physics of light transport in virtual scenes for computer graphics applications. These methods rely on the law of large numbers to estimate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alexandros D. Keros , Divakaran Divakaran , Kartic Subr

Science and engineering problems subject to uncertainty are frequently both computationally expensive and feature nonsmooth parameter dependence, making standard Monte Carlo too slow, and excluding efficient use of accelerated uncertainty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Per Pettersson , Sebastian Krumscheid

Accurate localization and perception are pivotal for enhancing the safety and reliability of vehicles. However, current localization methods suffer from reduced accuracy when the line-of-sight (LOS) path is obstructed, or a combination of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Yinuo Du , Hanying Zhao , Yang Liu , Xinlei Yu , Yuan Shen