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Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) rules $1/N \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} f(\boldsymbol{y}_n A)$ can be used to approximate integrals of the form $\int_{[0,1]^s} f(\boldsymbol{y} A) \,\mathrm{d} \boldsymbol{y}$, where $A$ is a matrix and $\boldsymbol{y}$ is row…
Digital nets provide an efficient way to generate integration nodes of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) rules. For certain applications, as e.g. in Uncertainty Quantification, we are interested in obtaining a speed-up in computing products of a…
In the analysis of using quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to approximate expectations of a linear functional of the solution of an elliptic PDE with random diffusion coefficient the sensitivity w.r.t. the parameters is often stated in terms…
Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are equal weight quadrature rules to approximate integrals over the unit cube with respect to the uniform measure. In this paper we discuss QMC integration with respect to general product measures defined on…
We study quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration of smooth functions defined over the multi-dimensional unit cube. Inspired by a recent work of Pan and Owen, we study a new construction-free median QMC rule which can exploit the smoothness and…
In this paper, we develop and test a fast numerical algorithm, called MDI-LR, for efficient implementation of quasi-Monte Carlo lattice rules for computing $d$-dimensional integrals of a given function. It is based on the idea of converting…
Lattice rules and polynomial lattice rules are quadrature rules for approximating integrals over the $s$-dimensional unit cube. Since no explicit constructions of such quadrature methods are known for dimensions $s > 2$, one usually has to…
We consider the efficient construction of polynomial lattice rules, which are special cases of so-called quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) rules. These are of particular interest for the approximate computation of multivariate integrals where the…
Lattice rules are among the most prominently studied quasi-Monte Carlo methods to approximate multivariate integrals. A rank-1 lattice rule to approximate an $s$-dimensional integral is fully specified by its generating vector $\mathbf{z}…
Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for estimating integrals are attractive since the resulting estimators typically converge at a faster rate than pseudo-random Monte Carlo. However, they can be difficult to set up on arbitrary posterior…
Lattice rules are among the most prominently studied quasi-Monte Carlo methods to approximate multivariate integrals. A rank-$1$ lattice rule to approximate an $s$-dimensional integral is fully specified by its \emph{generating vector}…
Finding a good approximation of the top eigenvector of a given $d\times d$ matrix $A$ is a basic and important computational problem, with many applications. We give two different quantum algorithms that, given query access to the entries…
In the recent papers ``The fast reduced QMC matrix-vector product'' (J. Comput. Appl. Math. 440, 115642, 2024) and ``Column reduced digital nets'' (submitted), it was proposed to use QMC rules based on reduced digital nets which provide a…
Monte Carlo (MC) and Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are classical approaches for the numerical integration of functions $f$ over $[0,1]^d$. While QMC methods can achieve faster convergence rates than MC in moderate dimensions, their…
The mean squared error and regularized versions of it are standard loss functions in supervised machine learning. However, calculating these losses for large data sets can be computationally demanding. Modifying an approach of J. Dick and…
Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration of output functionals of solutions of the diffusion problem with a log-normal random coefficient is considered. The random coefficient is assumed to be given by an exponential of a Gaussian random field…
Let $\mathcal{P} \subset [0,1)^S$ be a finite point set of cardinality $N$ in an $S$-dimensional cube, and let $f:[0,1)^S \to \mathbb{R}$ be an integrable function. A QMC integration of $f$ by $\mathcal{P}$ is the average of values of $f$…
In this note, we study a concatenation of quasi-Monte Carlo and plain Monte Carlo rules for high-dimensional numerical integration in weighted function spaces. In particular, we consider approximating the integral of periodic functions…
We study multivariate numerical integration of smooth functions in weighted Sobolev spaces with dominating mixed smoothness $\alpha\geq 2$ defined over the $s$-dimensional unit cube. We propose a new quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC)-based quadrature…
Importance Sampling (IS), an effective variance reduction strategy in Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, is frequently utilized for Bayesian inference and other statistical challenges. Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) replaces the random samples in MC…