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A Monte Carlo method for computing the action of a matrix exponential for a certain class of matrices on a vector is proposed. The method is based on generating random paths, which evolve through the indices of the matrix, governed by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Juan A. Acebron

High-dimensional multimodal sampling problems from lattice field theory (LFT) have become important benchmarks for machine learning assisted sampling methods. We show that GPU-accelerated particle methods, Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 David Yallup

This note reports on a scheme for interpolating the boundary conditions be- tween non-adjacent modeling regions when the model is based on Monte-Carlo computations of a collection of particles. The scheme conserves particles in a natural…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. Gear , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

For most optimisation methods an essential assumption is the vector space structure of the feasible set. This condition is not fulfilled if we consider optimisation problems over the sphere. We present an algorithm for solving a special…

Computation · Statistics 2018-02-27 Gabriele Eichfelder , Thomas Hotz , Johannes Wieditz

A technique for reducing the number of integrals in a Monte Carlo calculation is introduced. For integrations relying on classical or mean-field trajectories with local weighting functions, it is possible to integrate analytically at least…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-17 Jarod Tall , Steven Tomsovic

The identification of parameters in mathematical models using noisy observations is a common task in uncertainty quantification. We employ the framework of Bayesian inversion: we combine monitoring and observational data with prior…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-11 Jonas Latz , Iason Papaioannou , Elisabeth Ullmann

We propose an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for the off-lattice simulation of dense hard sphere polymer melts using cluster moves, called event chains, which allow for a rejection-free treatment of the excluded volume. Event chains also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-24 Tobias Alexander Kampmann , Horst-Holger Boltz , Jan Kierfeld

We propose a new numerical domain decomposition method for solving elliptic equations on compact Riemannian manifolds. One advantage of this method is its ability to bypass the need for global triangulations or grids on the manifolds.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Lizhen Qin , Feng Wang , Yun Wang

We present an approach to interface branching random walks with Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, and to switch seamlessly between the two. The approach is discussed in the context of auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) but is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-01 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

Local constraint is closely related to the gauge field, so constrained models are usually effective low energy descriptions and important in condensed matter physics. On the other hand, local restriction hinders the application of numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-11 Zheng Yan

Current differentiable renderers provide light transport gradients with respect to arbitrary scene parameters. However, the mere existence of these gradients does not guarantee useful update steps in an optimization. Instead, inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michael Fischer , Tobias Ritschel

We introduce a Monte Carlo integration-based Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) algorithm for electromagnetic scattering, specifically targeting complex dielectric materials. Unlike traditional deterministic SBR methods, our approach is the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samuel Audia , Dinesh Manocha , Matthias Zwicker

In this paper, we design a novel algorithm based on Least-Squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) in order to approximate the solution of discrete time Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs). Our algorithm allows massive parallelization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-01 E. Gobet , J. G. López-Salas , P. Turkedjiev , C. Vázquez

The Markov chain Monte Carlo method is a versatile tool in statistical physics to evaluate multi-dimensional integrals numerically. For the method to work effectively, we must consider the following key issues: the choice of ensemble, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-07 Synge Todo , Hidemaro Suwa

We propose a new strategy for Monte Carlo (MC) optimization on rugged multidimensional landscapes. The strategy is based on querying the statistical properties of the landscape in order to find the temperature at which the mean first…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Denis Tolkunov , Alexandre V. Morozov

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

In this paper we combine a flexible covariant formulation of the shallow water equations with the semi-implicit numerical scheme developed over the years by Casulli and collaborators. After adopting an orthogonal, but non-orthonormal,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Maurizio Tavelli , Olindo Zanotti

Drawing a sample from a discrete distribution is one of the building components for Monte Carlo methods. Like other sampling algorithms, discrete sampling suffers from the high computational burden in large-scale inference problems. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-29 Yutian Chen , Zoubin Ghahramani

We present real-time inchworm quantum Monte Carlo results for single-site dynamical mean field theory on an infinite coordination number Bethe lattice. Our numerically exact results are obtained on the L-shaped Keldysh contour and, being…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Qiaoyuan Dong , Igor Krivenko , Joseph Kleinhenz , Andrey E. Antipov , Guy Cohen , Emanuel Gull

A second-order accurate kernel-free boundary integral method is presented for Stokes and Navier boundary value problems on three-dimensional irregular domains. It solves equations in the framework of boundary integral equations, whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Zhongshu Zhao , Haixia Dong , Wenjun Ying