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Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), or particle filtering, is a popular class of methods for sampling from an intractable target distribution using a sequence of simpler intermediate distributions. Like other importance sampling-based methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Shixiang Gu , Zoubin Ghahramani , Richard E. Turner

We study three wave function optimization methods based on energy minimization in a variational Monte Carlo framework: the Newton, linear and perturbative methods. In the Newton method, the parameter variations are calculated from the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Julien Toulouse , C. J. Umrigar

Neural network quantum state (NNQS) has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum many-body problems, but its practical applications are often hindered by the high cost of sampling and local energy calculation. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Yangjun Wu , Chu Guo , Yi Fan , Pengyu Zhou , Honghui Shang

It has become increasingly easy nowadays to collect approximate posterior samples via fast algorithms such as variational Bayes, but concerns exist about the estimation accuracy. It is tempting to build solutions that exploit approximate…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-17 Leo L. Duan , Anirban Bhattacharya

Event-Chain Monte Carlo (ECMC) methods generate continuous-time and non-reversible Markov processes which often display significant accelerations compared to reversible counterparts. However their generalization to any system may appear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-18 Tristan Guyon , Arnaud Guillin , Manon Michel

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) employ artificial neural networks to encode many-body wave functions in second quantization through variational Monte Carlo (VMC). They have recently been applied to accurately describe electronic wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Chang-su Cao , Dingshun Lv , Han-Shi Hu

In this paper, we propose a novel numerical scheme to optimize the gradient flows for learning energy-based models (EBMs). From a perspective of physical simulation, we redefine the problem of approximating the gradient flow utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yang Wu , Pengxu Wei , Liang Lin

Recent advancements of intermediate-scale quantum processors have triggered tremendous interest in the exploration of practical quantum advantage. The simulation of fluid dynamics, a highly challenging problem in classical physics but vital…

We consider the problem of designing efficient particle filters for twisted Feynman--Kac models. Particle filters using twisted models can deliver low error approximations of statistical quantities and such twisting functions can be learnt…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-09 Joshua J Bon , Christopher Drovandi , Anthony Lee

We study in this paper the convergence of the random splitting method for Allen-Cahn equation in a background flow that plays as a simplified model for phase separation in multiphase flows. The model does not own the gradient flow structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Lei Li , Chen Wang

Classical optimization is a cornerstone of the success of variational quantum algorithms, which often require determining the derivatives of the cost function relative to variational parameters. The computation of the cost function and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Muhammad Umer , Eleftherios Mastorakis , Dimitris G. Angelakis

In a previous article we have shown how one can employ Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in order to solve non-homogeneous ordinary and partial differential equations. In the present work we consider the solution of eigenvalue problems for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. E. Lagaris , A. Likas , D. I. Fotiadis

Statistical and stochastic analysis based on thermodynamics has been the main analysis framework for stochastic global optimization. Recently, appearing quantum annealing or quantum tunneling algorithm for global optimization, we require a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Jinwuk Seok , Changsik Cho

We propose a variational scheme for computing Wasserstein gradient flows. The scheme builds upon the Jordan--Kinderlehrer--Otto framework with the Benamou-Brenier's dynamic formulation of the quadratic Wasserstein metric and adds a…

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We establish an averaging principle for a structural multiscale stochastic nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger system on the one-dimensional torus driven by a multiplicative Wiener noise. The slow component is governed by a fractional…

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In this paper, we derive a practical, general framework for creating adaptive iterative (linearization or splitting) algorithms to solve multi-physics problems. This means that, given an iterative method, we derive \textit{a posteriori}…

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This work develops a framework to apply normalizing-flow transformations of field configurations for all-orders Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) corrections in lattice field theory. This opens a new possibility to determine all-order…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-22 Nils Hermansson-Truedsson , Gurtej Kanwar

Normalizing flows provide an elegant approach to generative modeling that allows for efficient sampling and exact density evaluation of unknown data distributions. However, current techniques have significant limitations in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sahil Sidheekh , Chris B. Dock , Tushar Jain , Radu Balan , Maneesh K. Singh

In this work we propose, {analyze}, and validate a stabilized finite element method for a flow problem arising from the assessment of {4D Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging quality}. Starting from the Navier-Stokes equation and splitting its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Gabriel Barrenechea , Cristian Cárcamo , Abner Poza

We propose a continuous normalizing flow for sampling from the high-dimensional probability distributions of Quantum Field Theories in Physics. In contrast to the deep architectures used so far for this task, our proposal is based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Pim de Haan , Corrado Rainone , Miranda C. N. Cheng , Roberto Bondesan