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The path optimization method with machine learning is applied to the one-dimensional massive lattice Thirring model, which has the sign problem caused by the fermion determinant. This study aims to investigate how the path optimization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-13 Kazuki Hisayoshi , Kouji Kashiwa , Yusuke Namekawa , Hayato Takase

Domain knowledge is useful to improve the generalization performance of learning machines. Sign constraints are a handy representation to combine domain knowledge with learning machine. In this paper, we consider constraining the signs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Kenya Tajima , Takahiko Henmi , Kohei Tsuchida , Esmeraldo Ronnie R. Zara , Tsuyoshi Kato

We study a general class of convex submodular optimization problems with indicator variables. Many applications such as the problem of inferring Markov random fields (MRFs) with a sparsity or robustness prior can be naturally modeled in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Andres Gomez , Shaoning Han

We suggest simple implementable modifications of conditional gradient and gradient projection methods for smooth convex optimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Usually, the custom methods attain only weak convergence. We prove strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Igor Konnov

In this paper we summarize the existing principles for building unconventional computing devices that involve delayed signals for encoding solutions to NP-complete problems. We are interested in the following aspects: the properties of the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Mihai Oltean , Oana Muntean

A method is developed which speeds up averaging in quantum simulations where minus signs cause difficulties. A Langevin equation method in conjunction with a replication algorithm is used enabling one to average over a continuously varying…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 J. M. Deutsch

Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

Numerical simulations of numerous quantum systems suffer from the notorious sign problem. Important examples include QCD and other field theories at non-zero chemical potential, at non-zero vacuum angle, or with an odd number of flavors, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Cox , C. Gattringer , K. Holland , B. Scarlet , U. -J. Wiese

Boundary detection of irregular and translucent objects is an important problem with applications in medical imaging, environmental monitoring and manufacturing, where many of these applications are plagued with scarce labeled data and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fei Yu Guan , Ian Keefe , Sophie Wilkinson , Daniel D. B. Perrakis , Steven Waslander

We present a whole series of novel methods to alleviate the sign problem of the Fermionic Shadow Wave Function in the context of Variational Monte Carlo. The effectiveness of our new techniques is demonstrated on the example of liquid 3He.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Francesco Calcavecchia , Francesco Pederiva , Malvin H. Kalos , Thomas D. Kühne

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations provide one of the more powerful and versatile numerical approaches to condensed matter systems. However, their application to frustrated quantum spin models, in all relevant temperature regimes, is hamstrung…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-20 Stefan Wessel , B. Normand , Frédéric Mila , Andreas Honecker

Compressing the sign information of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients is an intractable problem in image coding schemes due to the equiprobable characteristics of the signs. To overcome this difficulty, we propose an efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kei Suzuki , Chihiro Tsutake , Keita Takahashi , Toshiaki Fujii

The indefinite sign of the Hamiltonian constraint means that solutions to Einstein's equations must achieve a delicate balance--often among numerically large terms that nearly cancel. If numerical errors cause a violation of the Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Beverly K. Berger

Building on recent solutions of the fermion sign problem for specific models we present two continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo methods for efficient simulation of mass-imbalanced Hubbard models on bipartite lattices at half-filling. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye-Hua Liu , Lei Wang

We solve the sign problem in a particle-hole symmetric spin-polarized fermion model on bipartite lattices using the idea of fermion bags. The solution can be extended to a class of models at half filling but without particle-hole symmetry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-19 Emilie Fulton Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

As a model of more general contour integration problems we consider the numerical calculation of high-order derivatives of holomorphic functions using Cauchy's integral formula. Bornemann (2011) showed that the condition number of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-01 Folkmar Bornemann , Georg Wechslberger

Recent work by Woodworth et al. (2020) shows that the optimization dynamics of gradient descent for overparameterized problems can be viewed as low-dimensional dual dynamics induced by a mirror map, explaining the implicit regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Shuyang Wang , Diego Klabjan

In this paper, we introduce a graph matching method that can account for constraints of arbitrary order, with arbitrary potential functions. Unlike previous decomposition approaches that rely on the graph structures, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 D. Khuê Lê-Huu , Nikos Paragios

We propose an efficient method for demodulation of phase modulated signals via iterated Hilbert transform embeddings. We show that while a usual approach based on one application of the Hilbert transform provides only an approximation to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Erik Gengel , Arkady Pikovsky

Signal decomposition is a classical problem in signal processing, which aims to separate an observed signal into two or more components each with its own property. Usually each component is described by its own subspace or dictionary.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Shervin Minaee , Yao Wang