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Topological mapping of a large physical system on a graph, and its decomposition using universal measures is proposed. We find inherent limits to the potential for optimization of a given system and its approximate representations by…

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Symbolic Mathematical tasks such as integration often require multiple well-defined steps and understanding of sub-tasks to reach a solution. To understand Transformers' abilities in such tasks in a fine-grained manner, we deviate from…

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We present a method to accelerate the numerical evaluation of spatial integrals of Feynman diagrams when expressed on the real frequency axis. This can be realized through use of a renormalized perturbation expansion with a constant but…

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The aim of electrical impedance tomography is to form an image of the conductivity distribution inside an unknown body using electric boundary measurements. The computation of the image from measurement data is a non-linear ill-posed…

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We consider the problem of minimization of a convex function on a simple set with convex non-smooth inequality constraint and describe first-order methods to solve such problems in different situations: smooth or non-smooth objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Anastasia Bayandina , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Titov

In this work, we consider constrained stochastic optimization problems under hidden convexity, i.e., those that admit a convex reformulation via non-linear (but invertible) map $c(\cdot)$. A number of non-convex problems ranging from…

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We introduce a Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method which efficiently simulates in a sign-problem-free way a broad class of frustrated $S=1/2$ models with competing antiferromagnetic interactions. Our scheme uses the basis of total spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-09 Fabien Alet , Kedar Damle , Sumiran Pujari

A solution to the sign problem is the so-called "Lefschetz thimble approach" where the domain of integration for field variables in the path integral is deformed from the real axis to a sub-manifold in the complex space. For properly chosen…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of generating inspection paths for robots. These paths should allow an attached measurement device to perform high-quality measurements. We formally show that generating robot paths, while maximizing…

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The analysis of digital images using homological procedures is an outstanding topic in the area of Computational Algebraic Topology. In this paper, we describe a certified reduction strategy to deal with digital images, but preserving their…

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Quantum error correction is an essential ingredient for reliable quantum computation for theoretically provable quantum speedup. Topological color codes, one of the quantum error correction codes, have an advantage against the surface codes…

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This paper focuses on applying entropic mirror descent to solve linear systems, where the main challenge for the convergence analysis stems from the unboundedness of the domain. To overcome this without imposing restrictive assumptions, we…

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Thimble regularisation of lattice field theories has been proposed as a solution to the infamous sign problem. It is conceptually very clean and powerful, but it is in practice limited by a potentially very serious issue: in general many…

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We present a numerically exact Inchworm Monte Carlo method for equilibrium multiorbital quantum impurity problems with general interactions and hybridizations. We show that the method, originally developed to overcome the dynamical sign…

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Recently, it has become evident that submodularity naturally captures widely occurring concepts in machine learning, signal processing and computer vision. Consequently, there is need for efficient optimization procedures for submodular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Stefanie Jegelka , Francis Bach , Suvrit Sra

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is an efficient and versatile algorithm that mitigates the sign problem while resolving the ergodicity issues inherent in Lefschetz-thimble approaches. We focus on cases…

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Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

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We present a symbolic algorithm for treating perturbative expansions of Hamiltonians with general two-body interactions. The method, formally equivalent to determinant Monte Carlo methods, merges well-known analytics with the recently…

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