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The choice of a factorization scheme suitable for Monte Carlo simulations of NLO initial state parton showers is discussed in this contribution.
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This work reports on a method for uncertainty estimation in simulated collider-event predictions. The method is based on a Monte Carlo-veto algorithm, and extends previous work on uncertainty estimates in parton showers by including…
Surface codes represent a leading approach for quantum error correction (QEC), offering a path towards universal fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC). However, efficiently implementing algorithms, particularly using Pauli-based…
We present algorithmic, complexity, and implementation results on the problem of sampling points from a spectrahedron, that is the feasible region of a semidefinite program. Our main tool is geometric random walks. We analyze the arithmetic…
PySensors is a Python package for selecting and placing a sparse set of sensors for reconstruction and classification tasks. In this major update to PySensors, we introduce spatially constrained sensor placement capabilities, allowing users…
Simulations of high-energy particle collisions, such as those used at the Large Hadron Collider, are based on quantum field theory; however, many approximations are made in practice. For example, the simulation of the parton shower, which…
Probabilistic programming (PP) allows flexible specification of Bayesian statistical models in code. PyMC3 is a new, open-source PP framework with an intutive and readable, yet powerful, syntax that is close to the natural syntax…
This work proposes a framework of benchmark functions designed to facilitate the creation of test cases for numerical optimisation techniques. The framework, written in Python 3, is designed to be easy to install, use, and expand. The…
Loop-induced $ZZ$ production can be enhanced by the large gluon flux at the LHC, and thus should be taken into account in relevant experimental analyses. We present for the first time the results of a fully exclusive simulation based on the…
A framework to include triple collinear splitting functions into parton showers is presented, and the implementation of flavor-changing NLO splitting kernels is discussed as a first application. The correspondence between the Monte-Carlo…
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Cycle-accurate software simulation of multicores with complex microarchitectures is often excruciatingly slow. People use simplified core models to gain simulation speed. However, a persistent question is to what extent the results derived…
High-level programming languages such as Python are increasingly used to provide intuitive interfaces to libraries written in lower-level languages and for assembling applications from various components. This migration towards…
While many ideas and proofs of concept for parallel-in-time integration methods exists, the number of large-scale, accessible time-parallel codes is rather small. This is often due to the apparent or subtle complexity of the algorithms and…