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Ab-initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are a state-of-the-art computational approach to obtaining highly accurate many-body wave functions. Although QMC methods are widely used in physics and chemistry to compute ground-state energies,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Kousuke Nakano , Abhishek Raghav , Sandro Sorella

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLPs) are a promising technique for atomic modeling. While high accuracy and small errors are widely reported for MLPs, an open concern is whether MLPs can accurately reproduce atomistic dynamics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-02 Yunsheng Liu , Xingfeng He , Yifei Mo

We introduce an extension of the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) method that adaptively controls the expressivity of the variational quantum state during the simulation of the dynamics. This adaptive tVMC (atVMC) approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Raffaele Salioni , Rocco Martinazzo , Davide Emilio Galli , Christian Apostoli

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) based on message passing neural networks hold promise to enable large-scale atomistic simulations of complex materials with ab initio accuracy. A number of MLIPs trained on energies and forces…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-09 Mikkel Ohm Sauer , Peder Meisner Lyngby , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

We introduce an algorithm that can be used to perform stochastic perturbation theory (sPT) to correct any non-linearly parametrized wavefunction that can be optimized using orbital space Variational Monte Carlo (VMC). Although the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-13 Sandeep Sharma

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing computational materials science and chemistry by offering an efficient alternative to {\em ab initio} molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. However, fitting high-quality…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ilgar Baghishov , Jan Janssen , Graeme Henkelman , Danny Perez

We propose a new variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method with an energy variance extrapolation for large-scale shell-model calculations. This variational Monte Carlo is a stochastic optimization method with a projected correlated condensed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-14 Takahiro Mizusaki , Noritaka Shimizu

When combined with highly expressive ansatz functions such as neural quantum states, variational Monte Carlo (VMC) constitutes a versatile numerical approach to tackle the quantum many-body problem in and out of equilibrium. However, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Wladislaw Krinitsin , Markus Schmitt

A simple and stable method for computing accurate expectation values of observable with Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) or Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) algorithms is presented. The basic idea consists in replacing the usual ``bare'' estimator…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roland Assaraf , Michel Caffarel

A machine-learned spin-lattice interatomic potential (MSLP) for magnetic iron is developed and applied to mesoscopic scale defects. It is achieved by augmenting a spin-lattice Hamiltonian with a neural network term trained to descriptors…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-11 Jacob Bernard John Chapman , Pui-Wai Ma

We address the problem of accurate, training-free guidance for conditional generation in trained diffusion models. Existing methods typically rely on point-estimates to approximate the posterior score, often resulting in biased…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-30 Aidan Gleich , Scott C. Schmidler

The deployment of machine learning classifiers in high-stakes domains requires well-calibrated confidence scores for model predictions. In this paper we introduce the notion of variable-based calibration to characterize calibration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Markelle Kelly , Padhraic Smyth

In several implementations of Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods it is natural, and important in terms of algorithmic efficiency, to exploit the information of the history of the samples to optimally tune their subsequent propagations. In…

Computation · Statistics 2014-02-07 Alexandros Beskos , Ajay Jasra , Nikolas Kantas , Alexandre Thiery

Emerging machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer a promising solution for large-scale accurate material simulations, but stringent tests related to the description of vibrational dynamics in molecular crystals remain scarce.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-17 Burak Gurlek , Shubham Sharma , Paolo Lazzaroni , Angel Rubio , Mariana Rossi

We develop new multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods to estimate the expectation of the smallest eigenvalue of a stochastic convection-diffusion operator with random coefficients. The MLMC method is based on a sequence of finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Tiangang Cui , Hans De Sterck , Alexander D. Gilbert , Stanislav Polishchuk , Robert Scheichl

Variational wave functions used in the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method are extensively improved to overcome the biases coming from the assumed variational form of the wave functions. We construct a highly generalized variational form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-27 Daisuke Tahara , Masatoshi Imada

For many complex simulation tasks spanning areas such as healthcare, engineering, and finance, Monte Carlo (MC) methods are invaluable due to their unbiased estimates and precise error quantification. Nevertheless, Monte Carlo simulations…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are typically trained on datasets that encompass a restricted subset of possible input structures, which presents a potential challenge for their generalization to a broader range of systems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Yangshuai Wang , Shashwat Patel , Christoph Ortner

Self-learning Monte Carlo (SLMC) method is a general algorithm to speedup MC simulations. Its efficiency has been demonstrated in various systems by introducing an effective model to propose global moves in the configuration space. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-06 Huitao Shen , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu

Practitioners of Bayesian statistics have long depended on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to obtain samples from intractable posterior distributions. Unfortunately, MCMC algorithms are typically serial, and do not scale to the large…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-11 Maxim Rabinovich , Elaine Angelino , Michael I. Jordan