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The method of complex Langevin simulations is a tool that can be used to tackle the complex-action problem encountered, for instance, in finite-density lattice quantum chromodynamics or real-time lattice field theories. The method is based…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-18 Michael Mandl , Michael W. Hansen , Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty

Path integrals with complex actions are encountered for many physical systems ranging from spin- or mass-imbalanced atomic gases and graphene to quantum chromo-dynamics at finite density to the non-equilibrium evolution of quantum systems.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-01 Lukas Kades , Martin Gärttner , Thomas Gasenzer , Jan M. Pawlowski

Along with the recent advances in scalable Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, sampling techniques that are based on Langevin diffusions have started receiving increasing attention. These so called Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) methods are based…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-14 Umut Şimşekli

We propose an adaptive biasing algorithm aimed at enhancing the sampling of multimodal measures by Langevin dynamics. The underlying idea consists in generalizing the standard adaptive biasing force method commonly used in conjunction with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-23 Chris Chipot , Tony Lelièvre

We introduce shielded Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC), a constrained sampler inspired by navigation functions, capable of sampling from unnormalized target distributions defined over punctured supports. In other words, this approach samples from…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-30 Nicolas Zilberstein , Santiago Segarra , Luiz Chamon

A key task in Bayesian statistics is sampling from distributions that are only specified up to a partition function (i.e., constant of proportionality). However, without any assumptions, sampling (even approximately) can be #P-hard, and few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Rong Ge , Holden Lee , Andrej Risteski

We study parallel sampling from high-dimensional strongly log-concave distributions. Langevin-based samplers converge rapidly in continuous time, but their discretizations are typically sequential and often require polynomially many steps…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Jaideep Mahajan , Kaihong Zhang , Feng Liang , Jingbo Liu

We introduce a new method to accurately and efficiently estimate the effective dynamics of collective variables in molecular simulations. Such reduced dynamics play an essential role in the study of a broad class of processes, ranging from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-28 Hadrien Vroylandt , Ludovic Goudenège , Pierre Monmarché , Fabio Pietrucci , Benjamin Rotenberg

This paper proposes a novel diffusion-based posterior sampling method within a plug-and-play (PnP) framework. Our approach constructs a probability transport from an easy-to-sample terminal distribution to the target posterior, using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Jinyuan Chang , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

We extend the Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) algorithm to compactly supported measures via a projection step, akin to projected Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). We show that (projected) LMC allows to sample in polynomial time from a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Sébastien Bubeck , Ronen Eldan , Joseph Lehec

Dynamics simulations of constrained particles can greatly aid in understanding the temporal and spatial evolution of biological processes such as lateral transport along membranes and self-assembly of viruses. Most theoretical efforts in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Stefan Paquay , Remy Kusters

This paper proposes a replica exchange preconditioned Langevin diffusion discretized by the Crank-Nicolson scheme (repCNLD) to handle high-dimensional and multi-modal distribution problems. Sampling from high-dimensional and multi-modal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Ou Na , Zecheng Zhang , Guang Lin

In this paper we propose a new approach for sampling from probability measures in, possibly, high dimensional spaces. By perturbing the standard overdamped Langevin dynamics by a suitable Stratonovich perturbation that preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Assyr Abdulle , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Gilles Vilmart

In stochastic quantisation, quantum mechanical expectation values are computed as averages over the time history of a stochastic process described by a Langevin equation. Complex stochastic quantisation, though theoretically not rigorously…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-08-18 Amel Durakovic , Emil Cortes Andre , Anders Tranberg

Lattice simulations of non-zero density QCD introduce the so-called sign problem (complex or negative probabilities), which invalidates importance sampling methods. To circumvent this, we use the Complex Langevin Equation (CLE), to measure…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-01 Michael W. Hansen , Dénes Sexty

A wide variety of numerical methods are evaluated and compared for solving the stochastic differential equations encountered in molecular dynamics. The methods are based on the application of deterministic impulses, drifts, and Brownian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Benedict Leimkuhler , Charles Matthews

We extend the L\'evy Langevin Monte Carlo method studied by Oechsler in 2024 to the setting of a target distribution with heavy tails: Choosing a target distribution from the class of subexponential distributions we prove convergence of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Anita Behme , Claudius Lütke Schwienhorst

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem that occurs in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we study SU($N_c$) gauge theories with CL. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-06-13 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

This paper considers the reduction of the Langevin equation arising from bio-molecular models. To facilitate the construction and implementation of the reduced models, the problem is formulated as a reduced-order modeling problem. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Lina Ma , Xiantao Li , Chun Liu

Monte Carlo sampling techniques have broad applications in machine learning, Bayesian posterior inference, and parameter estimation. Often the target distribution takes the form of a product distribution over a dataset with a large number…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-19 Charles Matthews , Jonathan Weare