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We show that by means of connected-graph expansions one can effectively generate exact high-order series expansions which are informative of low-lying excited states for quantum many-body systems defined on a lattice. In particular, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin P. Gelfand

In this paper, we study two aspects of the variational autoencoder (VAE): the prior distribution over the latent variables and its corresponding posterior. First, we decompose the learning of VAEs into layerwise density estimation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Chin-Wei Huang , Ahmed Touati , Laurent Dinh , Michal Drozdzal , Mohammad Havaei , Laurent Charlin , Aaron Courville

As deep Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) frameworks become more widely used for modeling biomolecular simulation data, we emphasize the capability of the VAE architecture to concurrently maximize the timescale of the latent space while…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Hannah K. Wayment-Steele , Vijay S. Pande

We apply to the Random Field Ising Model at zero temperature (T= 0) the perturbative loop expansion around the Bethe solution. A comparison with the standard epsilon-expansion is made, highlighting the key differences that make the new…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-06 Maria Chiara Angelini , Carlo Lucibello , Giorgio Parisi , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Tommaso Rizzo

The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular deep latent variable model used to analyse high-dimensional datasets by learning a low-dimensional latent representation of the data. It simultaneously learns a generative model and an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mine Öğretir , Siddharth Ramchandran , Dimitrios Papatheodorou , Harri Lähdesmäki

It has been suggested that one may construct a Lorentz-invariant noncommutative field theory by extending the coordinate algebra to additional, fictitious coordinates that transform nontrivially under the Lorentz group. Integration over…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Christopher D. Carone , Herry J. Kwee

By integrating dynamics models into model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods, model-based value expansion (MVE) algorithms have shown a significant advantage in sample efficiency as well as value estimation. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Bo Zhou , Hongsheng Zeng , Fan Wang , Yunxiang Li , Hao Tian

Lattice simulations are the only viable way to obtain ab-initio Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) predictions for low energy nuclear physics. These calculations are done, however, in a finite box and therefore extrapolation is needed to get the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Moti Eliyahu , Betzalel Bazak , Nir Barnea

Latent variables (LVs) play a crucial role in encoder-decoder models by enabling effective data compression, prediction, and generation. Although their theoretical properties, such as generalization, have been extensively studied in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Futoshi Futami , Masahiro Fujisawa

We propose a method for the calculation of vacuum expectation values (VEVs) given a non-trivial, long-distance vacuum wave functional (VWF) of the kind that arises, for example, in variational calculations. The VEV is written in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Jaramillo , P. Mansfield

A new exactly solvable model for the evolution of relativistic kinetic system interacting with an internal stochastic reservoir under the influence of a gravitational background expansion is established. This model of self-interaction is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander B. Balakin

We obtain long series expansions for the bulk, surface and corner free energies for several two-dimensional statistical models, by combining Enting's finite lattice method (FLM) with exact transfer matrix enumerations. The models encompass…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Eric Vernier , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen

The lifting theorem of Valdivia concerning (pre) compact sets and convergent (respectively, Cauchy) sequences from a quasi-(LB) space to a metrizable, strictly barrelled space is extended to a strictly larger collection of range spaces.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Thomas E. Gilsdorf

This study uses a Variational Autoencoder method to enhance the efficiency and applicability of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (McMC) methods by generating broader-spectrum prior proposals. Traditional approaches, such as the Karhunen-Lo\`eve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Marcio Borges , Felipe Pereira , Michel Tosin

Large climate-model ensembles are computationally expensive; yet many downstream analyses would benefit from additional, statistically consistent realizations of spatiotemporal climate variables. We study a generative modeling approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jacquelyn Shelton , Przemyslaw Polewski , Alexander Robel , Matthew Hoffman , Stephen Price

Path dependence is omnipresent in many disciplines such as engineering, system theory and finance. It reflects the influence of the past on the future, often expressed through functionals. However, non-Markovian problems are often…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-03 Bruno Dupire , Valentin Tissot-Daguette

Linked cluster expansions provide a useful tool both for analytical and numerical investigations of lattice field theories. The expansion parameter is the interaction strength fields at neighboured lattice sites are coupled. They result…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Reisz

We propose a high-precision numerical quadrature framework based on local Fourier extension (LFE) approximations. The method constructs, on each subinterval, a truncated-SVD stabilized local Fourier continuation of the integrand on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Xinran Liu , Zhenyu Zhao , Benxue Gong

Dualities between quantum field theories have proven to be a powerful tool in various areas of physics. In this paper, we introduce a new perspective for obtaining strong coupling expansions based on a well-known technique -- the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-11 Nikita A. Ignatyuk , Daniel Skliannyi

This article provides a primer on the spectral representation of random fields via the Karhunen-Lo\`eve Expansion (KLE). The goal is to bridge the gap between the theoretical foundations of the KLE and its application in computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alen Alexanderian