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Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) based on fixed-node approximation has enjoyed significant developments in the past decades and become one of the go-to methods when accurate ground state energy of molecules and materials is needed. The remaining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Weiluo Ren , Weizhong Fu , Xiaojie Wu , Ji Chen

Scientific computing has long relied on double precision (64-bit floating point) arithmetic to guarantee accuracy in simulations of real-world phenomena. However, the growing availability of hardware accelerators such as Graphics Processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Massimo Solinas , Agnes Valenti , Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Roeland Wiersema

Solving the Schr\"odinger equation is key to many quantum mechanical properties. However, an analytical solution is only tractable for single-electron systems. Recently, neural networks succeeded at modeling wave functions of many-electron…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Nicholas Gao , Stephan Günnemann

Deep neural networks have become a highly accurate and powerful wavefunction ansatz in combination with variational Monte Carlo methods for solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation. However, despite their success and favorable scaling,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Michael Scherbela , Leon Gerard , Philipp Grohs

The possibility to simulate the properties of many-body open quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom is the premise to the solution of several outstanding problems in quantum science and quantum information. The challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Alexandra Nagy , Vincenzo Savona

Monte Carlo methods are widely used importance sampling techniques for studying complex physical systems. Integrating these methods with deep learning has significantly improved efficiency and accuracy in high-dimensional problems and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-24 Yixiong Ren , Jianhui Zhou

Transferring a deep neural network trained on one problem to another requires only a small amount of data and little additional computation time. The same behaviour holds for ensembles of deep learning models typically superior to a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ilya Shashkov , Nikita Balabin , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexey Zaytsev

Deep learning has deeply changed the paradigms of many research fields. At the heart of chemical and physical sciences is the accurate ab initio calculation of many-body wavefunction, which has become one of the most notable examples to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yubing Qian , Xiang Li , Zhe Li , Weiluo Ren , Ji Chen

Variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) combined with neural-network quantum states offers a novel angle of attack on the curse-of-dimensionality encountered in a particular class of partial differential equations (PDEs); namely, the real-…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Tianchen Zhao , Chuhao Sun , Asaf Cohen , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

Variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an ab-initio method for solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation that is exact in principle, but limited by the flexibility of the available ansatzes in practice. The recently introduced deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Zeno Schätzle , Jan Hermann , Frank Noé

Neural Network Variational Monte Carlo (NNVMC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving quantum many-body problems by combining variational Monte Carlo with expressive neural-network wave-function ans\"atze. Although NNVMC can…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengze Xiao , Xuanzhe Ding , Yuyang Lou , Lixue Cheng , Chaojian Li

Self-learning Monte Carlo (SLMC) method is a general algorithm to speedup MC simulations. Its efficiency has been demonstrated in various systems by introducing an effective model to propose global moves in the configuration space. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-06 Huitao Shen , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu

Artificial Neural Networks were recently shown to be an efficient representation of highly-entangled many-body quantum states. In practical applications, neural-network states inherit numerical schemes used in Variational Monte Carlo, most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-22 Or Sharir , Yoav Levine , Noam Wies , Giuseppe Carleo , Amnon Shashua

In this work, we study the approximation of expected values of functional quantities on the solution of a stochastic differential equation (SDE), where we replace the Monte Carlo estimation with the evaluation of a deep neural network. Once…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Thomas Gerstner , Bastian Harrach , Daniel Roth , Martin Simon

Originally designed for applications in computer graphics, visual computing (VC) methods synthesize information about physical and virtual worlds, using prescribed algorithms optimized for spatial computing. VC is used to analyze geometry,…

Multi-distribution learning (MDL), which seeks to learn a shared model that minimizes the worst-case risk across $k$ distinct data distributions, has emerged as a unified framework in response to the evolving demand for robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zihan Zhang , Wenhao Zhan , Yuxin Chen , Simon S. Du , Jason D. Lee

Variational Physics-Informed Neural Networks often suffer from poor convergence when using stochastic gradient-descent-based optimizers. By introducing a Least Squares solver for the weights of the last layer of the neural network, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Carlos Uriarte , Manuela Bastidas , David Pardo , Jamie M. Taylor , Sergio Rojas

Machine-learning-based variational Monte Carlo simulations are a promising approach for targeting quantum many-body ground states, especially in two dimensions and in cases where the ground state is known to have a non-trivial sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-14 M. Schuyler Moss , Roeland Wiersema , Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko

Given access to accurate solutions of the many-electron Schr\"odinger equation, nearly all chemistry could be derived from first principles. Exact wavefunctions of interesting chemical systems are out of reach because they are NP-hard to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 David Pfau , James S. Spencer , Alexander G. de G. Matthews , W. M. C. Foulkes

This work introduces a novel multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) metamodeling approach for variance function estimation. Although devising an efficient experimental design for simulation metamodeling can be elusive, the MLMC-based approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-22 Jingtao Zhang , Xi Chen