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We present a general-purpose method to train Markov chain Monte Carlo kernels, parameterized by deep neural networks, that converge and mix quickly to their target distribution. Our method generalizes Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and is trained…

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Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful tool for planning. However, unlike Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-whose performance naturally improves with inference-time computation scaling-standard diffusion-based planners offer only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jaesik Yoon , Hyeonseo Cho , Doojin Baek , Yoshua Bengio , Sungjin Ahn

Background: Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion are commonly used as a model validation tool as they are especially suitable for generating the diffusion MRI signal in complicated tissue microgeometries. New method: Here we describe the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Hong-Hsi Lee , Els Fieremans , Dmitry S Novikov

Fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (FNDMC) is a stochastic quantum many-body method that has a great potential in electronic structure theory. We examine how FNDMC satisfies exact constraints, linearity and derivative discontinuity of total…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Matej Ditte , Matus Dubecky

Radiative processes such as synchrotron radiation and Compton scattering play an important role in astrophysics. Radiative processes are fundamentally stochastic in nature, and the best tools currently used for resolving these processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 William Charles , Alexander Y. Chen

We review an approach where the energy functional of Density-Functional Theory (DFT) can be determined without empiricism via a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) procedure. The idea consists of a nested iterative loop where the configurational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Luigi Delle Site

Machine learning of kinetic energy functionals (KEF), in particular kinetic energy density (KED) functionals, has recently attracted attention as a promising way to construct KEFs for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT). Neural…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-11 Sergei Manzhos , Johann Lüder , Manabu Ihara

Recently developed neural network-based \emph{ab-initio} solutions (Pfau et. al arxiv:1909.02487v2) for finding ground states of fermionic systems can generate state-of-the-art results on a broad class of systems. In this work, we improve…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Max Wilson , Nicholas Gao , Filip Wudarski , Eleanor Rieffel , Norm M. Tubman

This paper proposes a novel multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) symbol detector that incorporates a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent into the Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) detection algorithm. We first describe how the MCTS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Tz-Wei Mo , Ronald Y. Chang , Te-Yi Kan

We study lithium systems over a range of number of atoms, e.g., atomic anion, dimer, metallic cluster, and body-centered cubic crystal by the diffusion Monte Carlo method. The calculations include both core and valence electrons in order to…

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Accurately calculating energies and atomic forces with linear-scaling methods is a crucial approach to accelerating and improving molecular dynamics simulations. In this paper, we introduce HamGNN-DM, a machine learning model designed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-06 Zaizhou Xin , Yang Zhong , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

This topical review describes the methodology of continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations. These stochastic methods are based on many-body wave functions and are capable of achieving very high accuracy. The…

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This study focuses on the numerical analysis and optimal control of vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWT) using Bayesian reinforcement learning (RL). We specifically address small-scale wind turbines, which are well-suited to local and compact…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Vahid Tavakol Aghaei , Arda Ağababaoğlu , Biram Bawo , Peiman Naseradinmousavi , Sinan Yıldırım , Serhat Yeşilyurt , Ahmet Onat

Ice is one of the most important and interesting molecular crystals exhibiting a rich and evolving phase diagram. Recent discoveries mean that there are now twenty distinct polymorphs; a structural diversity that arises from a delicate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Flaviano Della Pia , Andrea Zen , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

Diffusion-based models have achieved notable empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressiveness in modeling complex distributions. Despite existing methods being promising, the key challenge of extending existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dmitry Shribak , Chen-Xiao Gao , Yitong Li , Chenjun Xiao , Bo Dai

Monte Carlo methods are widely used in particle physics to integrate and sample probability distributions (differential cross sections or decay rates) on multi-dimensional phase spaces. We present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm optimized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Matthew D. Klimek , Maxim Perelstein

In quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, energy estimators are calculated as the statistical average of the Markov chain sampling of energy estimator along with an associated statistical error. This error estimation is not straightforward and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Tom Ichibha , Kenta Hongo , Ryo Maezono , Alex J. W. Thom

The state of the art for physical hazard prediction from weather and climate requires expensive km-scale numerical simulations driven by coarser resolution global inputs. Here, a generative diffusion architecture is explored for downscaling…

Many approaches, which have been developed to express the potential energy of large systems, exploit the locality of the atomic interactions. A prominent example are fragmentation methods, in which quantum chemical calculations are carried…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Michael Gastegger , Clemens Kauffmann , Jörg Behler , Philipp Marquetand

The implementation and reliability of a quadratic diffusion Monte Carlo method for the study of ground-state properties of atoms are discussed. We show in the simple yet non-trivial calculation of the binding energy of the Li atom that the…

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