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State-space models are commonly used to describe different forms of ecological data. We consider the case of count data with observation errors. For such data the system process is typically multi-dimensional consisting of coupled Markov…

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The Metropolis process (MP) and Simulated Annealing (SA) are stochastic local search heuristics that are often used in solving combinatorial optimization problems. Despite significant interest, there are very few theoretical results…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zongchen Chen , Dan Mikulincer , Daniel Reichman , Alexander S. Wein

Machine learning-inspired techniques have emerged as a new paradigm for analysis of phase transitions in quantum matter. In this work, we introduce a supervised learning algorithm for studying critical phenomena from measurement data, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-12 Nishad Maskara , Michael Buchhold , Manuel Endres , Evert van Nieuwenburg

We present the multiple GPU computing with the common unified device architecture (CUDA) for the Swendsen-Wang multi-cluster algorithm of two-dimensional (2D) q-state Potts model. Extending our algorithm for single GPU computing [Comp.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Yukihiro Komura , Yutaka Okabe

We apply the Hierarchical Autoregressive Neural (HAN) network sampling algorithm to the two-dimensional $Q$-state Potts model and perform simulations around the phase transition at $Q=12$. We quantify the performance of the approach in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-26 Piotr Białas , Paulina Czarnota , Piotr Korcyl , Tomasz Stebel

We propose a method based on the Wang-Landau algorithm to numerically generate the spectral densities of random matrix ensembles. The method employs Dyson's log-gas formalism for random matrix eigenvalues and also enables one to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-28 Santosh Kumar

It has been shown that the Metropolis algorithm can be implemented on quantum computers in a way that avoids the sign problem. However, flat histogram techniques are often preferred as they don't suffer from the same limitations that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Garrett T. Floyd , David P. Landau , Michael R. Geller

A generic algorithm for the extraction of probabilistic (Bayesian) information about model parameters from data is presented. The algorithm propagates an ensemble of particles in the product space of model parameters and outputs. Each…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-18 Carlo Albert

In this work, we discuss the implications of a recently obtained equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation relation on the extension of the available Monte Carlo methods based on the consideration of the Gibbs canonical ensemble to account for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-31 L. Velazquez , S. Curilef

The significance of heating load (HL) accurate approximation is the primary motivation of this research to distinguish the most efficient predictive model among several neural-metaheuristic models. The proposed models are through…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Hossein Moayedi , Amir Mosavi

The design of effective cooling strategies is a crucial component in simulated annealing algorithms based on the Metropolis method. Traditionally, this is achieved through inverse logarithmic decays of the temperature to ensure convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Frédéric Blondeel , Lorenzo Pareschi , Giovanni Samaey

Flat histogram methods, such as Wang--Landau sampling, provide a means for high-throughput calculation of phase diagrams of atomistic/lattice model systems. Many parallelisation schemes with varying degrees of complexity have been proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Hubert J. Naguszewski , Christopher D. Woodgate , David Quigley

We propose two algorithms that use both models and datasets to estimate angular power spectra from channel covariance matrices in massive MIMO systems. The first algorithm is an iterative fixed-point method that solves a hierarchical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-11 Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

As one of the most robust global optimization methods, simulated annealing has received considerable attention, with many variations that attempt to improve the cooling schedule. This paper introduces a variant of simulated annealing that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-17 Mariia Karabin , Steven J. Stuart

Auxiliary information is frequently utilized in survey sampling to improve the efficiency of estimators of the finite population mean. However, the simultaneous use of multiple auxiliary variables often induces multicollinearity, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-30 Rajesh Singh , Shobh Nath Tiwari

The site-diluted Ising model has been investigated using an improved microcanonical algorithm from Creutz Cellular Automaton. For a microcanonical algorithm, the basic problem is to estimate the correct temperatures using average values of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-22 B. Kutlu , A. E. Genc

We propose an iterative proposal to estimate critical points for statistical models based on configurations by combing machine-learning tools. Firstly, phase scenarios and preliminary boundaries of phases are obtained by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-23 X. L. Zhao , L. B. Fu

We present a mathematical analysis of the Wang-Landau algorithm, prove its convergence, identify sources of errors and strategies for optimization. In particular, we found the histogram increases uniformly with small fluctuation after a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Chenggang Zhou , R. N. Bhatt

In the current work we revisit the pair-potential recently proposed by Wang et al. (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 10624, 22, 2020) as a well defined finite-range alternative to the widely used Lennard-Jones interaction model. The advantage of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Omar-Farouk Adesida , Sebastian Havens , Livia B. Partay

We demonstrate that the multicanonical approach is not restricted to Monte Carlo simulations, but can also be applied to simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms. The effectiveness of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto , Frank Eisenmenger