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Deep neural networks have seen great success in recent years; however, training a deep model is often challenging as its performance heavily depends on the hyper-parameters used. In addition, finding the optimal hyper-parameter…

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An important application for near-term quantum computing lies in optimization tasks, with applications ranging from quantum chemistry and drug discovery to machine learning. In many settings --- most prominently in so-called parametrized or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Maria Schuld , Ville Bergholm , Christian Gogolin , Josh Izaac , Nathan Killoran

Nowadays high speed machining (HSM) machine tool combines productivity and part quality. So mould and die maker invested in HSM. Die and mould features are more and more complex shaped. Thus, it is difficult to choose the best machining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2009-10-12 Laurent Tapie , Kwamiwi Mawussi , Bernard Anselmetti

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a premier Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for continuous target distributions. Its full potential can only be unleashed when its problem-dependent hyperparameters are tuned well. The adaptation of…

Computation · Statistics 2022-05-10 Pavel Sountsov , Matt D. Hoffman

Stochastic gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo (SGMCMC) is a popular class of algorithms for scalable Bayesian inference. However, these algorithms include hyperparameters such as step size or batch size that influence the accuracy of…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-19 Jeremie Coullon , Leah South , Christopher Nemeth

Recent research has made impressive progress in large-scale multimodal pre-training. In the context of the rapid growth of model size, it is necessary to seek efficient and flexible methods other than finetuning. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Sheng Liang , Mengjie Zhao , Hinrich Schütze

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a popular Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to sample from an unnormalized probability distribution. A leapfrog integrator is commonly used to implement HMC in practice, but its performance can be…

Computation · Statistics 2021-10-28 Marcel Hirt , Michalis K. Titsias , Petros Dellaportas

In this updated vesion of ZMCintegral, we have added the functionality of integrations with parameter scan on distributed Graphics Processing Units(GPUs). Given a large parameter grid (up to 10^{10} parameter points to be scanned), the code…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Jun-Jie Zhang , Hong-Zhong Wu

Gradient-based optimization is a key ingredient of variational quantum algorithms, with applications ranging from quantum machine learning to quantum chemistry and simulation. The parameter-shift rule provides a hardware-friendly method for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Leonardo Banchi , Dominic Branford , Chetan Waghela

Working with any gradient-based machine learning algorithm involves the tedious task of tuning the optimizer's hyperparameters, such as its step size. Recent work has shown how the step size can itself be optimized alongside the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Kartik Chandra , Audrey Xie , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Erik Meijer

The optimization of physical parameters serves various purposes, such as system identification and efficiency in developing devices. Spin-torque oscillators have been applied to neuromorphic computing experimentally and theoretically, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Yusuke Imai , Shuhong Liu , Nozomi Akashi , Kohei Nakajima

We present a gradient-based optimal-control technique for open quantum systems that utilizes quantum trajectories to simulate the quantum dynamics during optimization. Using trajectories allows for optimizing open systems with less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Mohamed Abdelhafez , David I. Schuster , Jens Koch

When training large models, such as neural networks, the full derivatives of order 2 and beyond are usually inaccessible, due to their computational cost. Therefore, among the second-order optimization methods, it is common to bypass the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pierre Wolinski

Estimating and reacting to external disturbances is of fundamental importance for robust control of quadrotors. Existing estimators typically require significant tuning or training with a large amount of data, including the ground truth, to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Bingheng Wang , Zhengtian Ma , Shupeng Lai , Lin Zhao , Tong Heng Lee

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo can provide powerful inference in complex statistical problems, but ultimately its performance is sensitive to various tuning parameters. In this paper we use the underlying geometry of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-03 M. J. Betancourt , Simon Byrne , Mark Girolami

This paper presents comprehensive studies on frequency response optimized integrators considering second order derivative regarding their numerical error, numerical stability and transient performance. Frequency domain error analysis is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Sheng Lei , Alexander Flueck

For a large class of variational quantum circuits, we show how arbitrary-order derivatives can be analytically evaluated in terms of simple parameter-shift rules, i.e., by running the same circuit with different shifts of the parameters. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Andrea Mari , Thomas R. Bromley , Nathan Killoran

We develop a machine-learning framework to learn hyperparameter sequences for accelerated first-order methods (e.g., the step size and momentum sequences in accelerated gradient descent) to quickly solve parametric convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Rajiv Sambharya , Jinho Bok , Nikolai Matni , George Pappas

Sampling-based motion planning algorithms have been continuously developed for more than two decades. Apart from mobile robots, they are also widely used in manipulator motion planning. Hence, these methods play a key role in collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Carl Gaebert , Sascha Kaden , Benjamin Fischer , Ulrike Thomas