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We study reinforcement learning in hybrid discrete-continuous action spaces, such as settings where the discrete component selects a regime (or index) and the continuous component optimizes within it -- a structure common in robotics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matias Alvo , Daniel Russo , Yash Kanoria

An improved particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed and its superiority over standard particle swarm optimization algorithm is tested on two typical benchmark functions. By employing this algorithm to search for the magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-14 Ze Ruan , Xiu-Cai Jiang , Ze-Yi Song , Yu-Zhong Zhang

Unconventional magnets that combine antiferromagnetic structures with ferromagnetic-like responses are essential for the development of next-generation spintronics. Their emergent properties are fundamentally dictated by the interplay…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Yutong Yu , Xiaobing Chen , Yanzhou Zhu , Yuhui Li , Renzheng Xiong , Jiayu Li , Yuntian Liu , Qihang Liu

Due to an extremely rugged structure of the free energy landscape, the determination of spin-glass ground states is among the hardest known optimization problems, found to be NP-hard in the most general case. Owing to the specific structure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-11-10 Martin Weigel

We propose the multi-state complete-active-space second-order perturbation theory spin-orbit method (MS-CASPT2-SO) for electronic structure calculations. It is a two-step spin-orbit coupling method that does not make use of energy shifts…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Zoila Barandiaran , Luis Seijo

In this investigation, we propose several algorithms to recover the location and intensity of a radiation source located in a simulated 250 m x 180 m block in an urban center based on synthetic measurements. Radioactive decay and detection…

Applications · Statistics 2016-07-05 Razvan Stefanescu , Kathleen Schmidt , Jason Hite , Ralph Smith , John Mattingly

A long-standing and difficult problem in, e.g., condensed matter physics is how to find the ground state of a complex many-body system where the potential energy surface has a large number of local minima. Spin systems containing complex…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Qichen Xu , Zhuanglin Shen , Manuel Pereiro , Pawel Herman , Olle Eriksson , Anna Delin

We present a new wavefunction ansatz that combines the strengths of spin projection with the language of matrix product states (MPS) and matrix product operators (MPO) as used in the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG).…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-05 Zhendong Li , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Global optimization is an active area of research in atomistic simulations, and many algorithms have been proposed to date. A prominent example is basin hopping Monte Carlo, which performs a modified Metropolis Monte Carlo search to explore…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Martín Leandro Paleico , Jörg Behler

A new adaptive hybrid optimization strategy, entitled squads, is proposed for complex inverse analysis of computationally intensive physical models. The new strategy is designed to be computationally efficient and robust in identification…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Velimir V. Vesselinov , Dylan R. Harp

We present an algorithm for finding ground states of two dimensional spin glass systems based on ideas from matrix product states in quantum information theory. The algorithm works directly at zero temperature and defines an approximate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 M. B. Hastings

General purpose optimization routines such as nlminb, optim (R) or nlmixed (SAS) are frequently used to estimate model parameters in nonstandard distributions. This paper presents Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), as an alternative to many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-22 Sisi Shao , Junhyung Park , Weng Kee Wong

'Hybrid meta-heuristics' is one of the most interesting recent trends in the field of optimization and feature selection (FS). In this paper, we have proposed a binary variant of Atom Search Optimization (ASO) and its hybrid with Simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Kushal Kanti Ghosh , Ritam Guha , Soulib Ghosh , Suman Kumar Bera , Ram Sarkar

This article presents a new hybrid algorithm, crossover binary particle swarm optimization (crBPSO), for allocating resources in local energy systems via multi-agent (MA) technology. Initially, a hierarchical MA-based architecture in a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Hafiz Majid Hussain , Ashfaq Ahmad. Pedro H. J. Nardelli

The dynamic of real-world optimization problems raises new challenges to the traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO). Responding to these challenges, the dynamic optimization has received considerable attention over the past decade.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Ahlem Aboud , Raja Fdhila , Adel M. Alimi

We implement the reinforcement learning agent for a spin-1 atomic system to prepare spin squeezed state from given initial state. Proximal policy gradient (PPO) algorithm is used to deal with continuous external control field and final…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 Jun-Jie Chen , Ming Xue

We present a new approach based on the static density functional theory (DFT) to describe paramagentic MnO, which is a representative paramagnetic Mott insulator. We appended the spin noncollinearity and the canonical ensemble to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-14 Sangmoon Yoon , Seoung-Hun Kang , Sangmin Lee , Kuntae Kim , Jeong-Pil Song , Miyoung Kim , Young-Kyun Kwon

The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm has been recently introduced in the non--linear programming, becoming widely studied and used in a variety of applications. Starting from its original formulation, many variants for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Silvano Chiaradonna , Felicita Di Giandomenico , Nadir Murru

The investigation of magnetic energy landscapes and the search for ground states of magnetic materials using ab initio methods like density functional theory (DFT) is a challenging task. Complex interactions, such as superexchange and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-24 Jakob Baumsteiger , Lorenzo Celiberti , Patrick Rinke , Milica Todorović , Cesare Franchini

This paper investigates a new hybridization of multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) and cooperative agents (MOPSO-CA) to handle the problem of stagnation encounters in MOPSO, which leads solutions to trap in local optima. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Najwa Kouka , Raja Fdhila , Adel M. Alimi