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We present an algorithm for cluster dynamics to efficiently simulate large systems on MIMD parallel computers with large numbers of processors. The method divides physical space into rectangular cells which are assigned to processors and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Mike Flanigan , Pablo Tamayo

The efficient calculation of rare-event kinetics in complex dynamical systems, such as the rate and pathways of ligand dissociation from a protein, is a generally unsolved problem. Markov state models can systematically integrate ensembles…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Benjamin Trendelkamp-Schroer , Frank Noe

Sampling from high-dimensional probability distributions is fundamental in machine learning and statistics. As datasets grow larger, computational efficiency becomes increasingly important, particularly in reducing adaptive complexity,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huanjian Zhou , Masashi Sugiyama

We consider the non-metric data placement problem and develop distributed algorithms for computing or approximating its optimal integral solution. We first show that the non-metric data placement problem is inapproximable up to a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 S. Rasoul Etesami

Asynchronous parallel implementations of stochastic gradient (SG) have been broadly used in solving deep neural network and received many successes in practice recently. However, existing theories cannot explain their convergence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Xiangru Lian , Yijun Huang , Yuncheng Li , Ji Liu

Clustering mixtures of Gaussian distributions is a fundamental and challenging problem that is ubiquitous in various high-dimensional data processing tasks. While state-of-the-art work on learning Gaussian mixture models has focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan Kushnir , Shirin Jalali , Iraj Saniee

In this paper we show that a large class of Latent variable models, such as Mixed Membership Stochastic Block(MMSB) Models, Topic Models, and Adversarial Clustering, can be unified through a geometric perspective, replacing model specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Ravindran Kannan

TThe prototypical problem we study here is the following. Given a $2L\times 2L$ square, there are approximately $\exp(4KL^2/\pi )$ ways to tile it with dominos, i.e. with horizontal or vertical $2\times 1$ rectangles, where $K\approx 0.916$…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Benoit Laslier , Fabio Toninelli

Learning to sample from complex unnormalized distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics and machine learning. While score-based and variational methods have achieved success in continuous domains, extending them to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Lei Li , Zhen Wang , Lishuo Zhang

We consider spin systems on the integer lattice graph $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with nearest-neighbor interactions. We develop a combinatorial framework for establishing that exponential decay with distance of spin correlations, specifically the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Antonio Blanca , Pietro Caputo , Alistair Sinclair , Eric Vigoda

Kinetic Ising models on the square lattice with both nearest-neighbor interactions and self-interaction are studied for the cases of random sequential updating and parallel updating. The equilibrium phase diagrams and critical dynamics are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 Vahini Reddy Nareddy , Jonathan Machta

We study metastability and mixing time for a non-reversible probabilistic cellular automaton. With a suitable choice of the parameters, we first show that the stationary distribution is close in total variation to a low temperature Ising…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Paolo Dai Pra , Benedetto Scoppola , Elisabetta Scoppola

We present here two novel algorithms for simulated tempering simulations, which break detailed balance condition (DBC) but satisfy the skewed detailed balance to ensure invariance of the target distribution. The irreversible methods we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Fahim Faizi , Pedro J. Buigues , George Deligiannidis , Edina Rosta

Sampling from the stationary distribution is one of the fundamental tasks of Markov chain-based algorithms and has important applications in machine learning, combinatorial optimization and network science. For the quantum case, qsampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Xinyin Li , Yun Shang

We introduce a universal method for accelerating Lindblad dynamics that preserves the original trajectory through Hilbert space. The technique provides exact fast processes analytically, which are Markovian and do not require manipulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo

A fast harmonic oscillator is linearly coupled with a system of Ising spins that are in contact with a thermal bath, and evolve under a slow Glauber dynamics at dimensionless temperature $\theta$. The spins have a coupling constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-26 L. L. Bonilla , A. Prados , A. Carpio

We review several parallel tempering schemes and examine their main ingredients for accuracy and efficiency. The present study covers two selection methods of temperatures and several choices for the exchange of replicas, including a recent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Malakis , T. Papakonstantinou

We study the coevolution of a generalized Glauber dynamics for Ising spins, with tunable threshold, and of the graph topology where the dynamics takes place. This simple coevolution dynamics generates a rich phase diagram in the space of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-25 Salvatore Mandra' , Santo Fortunato , Claudio Castellano

An efficient parallelization approach to simulate optical properties of ensembles of quantum emitters in realistic electromagnetic environments is considered. It relies on balancing computing load of utilized processors and is built into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Maxim Sukharev

An efficient numerical algorithm is presented for massively parallel simulations of dispersion-managed wavelength-division-multiplexed optical fiber systems. The algorithm is based on a weak nonlinearity approximation and independent…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. M. Lushnikov