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The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a way to eliminate the conventional renormalization scale ambiguity in a systematic way. By applying the PMC scale setting, all non-conformal terms in perturbative series are summed into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-09 Qiong-Lian Zhang , Xing-Gang Wu , Xu-Chang Zheng , Sheng-Quan Wang , Hai-Bing Fu , Zhen-Yun Fang

In this paper, a novel method via using the characteristic operator~(CO) ${\cal \hat{D}}_{n_{\gamma}, n_{\beta}}$ is proposed to extend the applicability of PMC, which is a theoretical generalization of previous PMC single-scale setting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-25 Jiang Yan , Xing-Gang Wu , Jian-Ming Shen , Xu-Dong Huang , Zhi-Fei Wu

Theoretical calculations for event shape observables are often determined by using the conventional scale setting; i.e. the procedure defined by setting the renormalization scale to the center-of-mass energy $\mu_r=\sqrt{s}$ and evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Zhu-Yu Ren , Sheng-Quan Wang , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu , Leonardo Di Giustino

Uncertainty estimates must be calibrated (i.e., accurate) and sharp (i.e., informative) in order to be useful. This has motivated a variety of methods for recalibration, which use held-out data to turn an uncalibrated model into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Charles Marx , Shengjia Zhao , Willie Neiswanger , Stefano Ermon

The QCD coupling $\alpha_s$ is the most important parameter for achieving precise QCD predictions. By using the well measured effective coupling $\alpha^{g_1}_{s}(Q)$ defined from the Bjorken sum rules as a basis, we suggest a novel and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Xu-Dong Huang , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu

We develop a new approach to estimate the uncertainty due to missing higher orders in perturbative predictions (the perturbative "theory uncertainty"), which overcomes many inherent limitations of the currently prevalent methods based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Frank J. Tackmann

Estimating high-quality images while also quantifying their uncertainty are two desired features in an image reconstruction algorithm for solving ill-posed inverse problems. In this paper, we propose plug-and-play Monte Carlo (PMC) as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Yu Sun , Zihui Wu , Yifan Chen , Berthy T. Feng , Katherine L. Bouman

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful control method that allows to directly include state and input constraints into the controller design. However, errors in the model, e.g., caused by unknown disturbances, can lead to constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Felix Brändle , Frank Allgöwer

A key problem in making precise perturbative QCD (pQCD) predictions is how to set the renormalization scale of the running coupling unambiguously at each finite order. The elimination of the uncertainty in setting the renormalization scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Hong-Hao Ma , Xing-Gang Wu , Yang Ma , Stanley J. Brodsky , Matin Mojaza

High-order perturbative $\textit{ab initio}$ calculations are challenging due to the rapidly growing configuration space and the difficulty of assessing convergence. In this letter, we introduce perturbation theory quantum Monte Carlo…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Xin Zhen , Rongzhe Hu , Junchen Pei , Furong Xu

In this review article we report on the newest developments in precision calculations in supersymmetric theories. An important issue related to this topic is the construction of a regularization scheme preserving simultaneously gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-24 Luminita Mihaila

Calculations truncated at a fixed order in perturbation theory are accompanied by an associated theoretical uncertainty, which encodes the missing higher orders (MHOU). This is typically estimated by a scale variation procedure, which has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Matthew A. Lim , Rene Poncelet

One of the main sources of theoretical uncertainty in the extraction of the strong coupling from hadronic tau decays stems from the renormalization-group improvement of the series. Perturbative series in QCD are divergent but are (most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-06 D. Boito , P. Masjuan , F. Oliani

We apply the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) to the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) Pomeron intercept at the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy. The PMC eliminates the conventional renormalization scale ambiguity by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Xu-Chang Zheng , Xing-Gang Wu , Sheng-Quan Wang , Jian-Ming Shen , Qiong-Lian Zhang

We establish the geometric ergodicity of the preconditioned Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm defined on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, as developed in [Beskos et al., Stochastic Process. Appl., 2011]. This algorithm can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz , Cecilia F. Mondaini

In any calculation in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) a choice needs to be made for the unphysical renormalisation scale, $\mu_R$. The Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie/Principle of Maximum Conformality (BLM/PMC) scale-setting procedure is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-21 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Alexander Mitov

As a basic requirement of the renormalization group invariance, any physical observable must be independent of the choice of both the renormalization scheme and the initial renormalization scale. In this paper, we show that by using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-30 Xing-Gang Wu , Jian-Ming Shen , Bo-Lun Du , Stanley J. Brodsky

A robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) algorithm is presented for linear, time invariant systems with unknown dynamics and subject to bounded measurement noise. The system is characterized by an impulse response model, which is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Anilkumar Parsi , Andrea Iannelli , Mingzhou Yin , Mohammad Khosravi , Roy S. Smith

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) offers a computationally efficient paradigm for neuromorphic learning. Yet, it lacks rigorous uncertainty quantification, leading to open decision boundaries and, consequently, vulnerability to outliers,…

Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory is a framework that aims to improve the results of Hamiltonian truncation in a systematic, order-by-order fashion using Effective Field Theory methodology. The result is a truncated effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-30 Ekrem Demiray , Kara Farnsworth , Rachel Houtz