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Many inverse problems in nuclear fusion and high-energy astrophysics research, such as the optimization of tokamak reactor geometries or the inference of black hole parameters from interferometric images, necessitate high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jonathan Gorard , Ammar Hakim , Hong Qin , Kyle Parfrey , Shantenu Jha

We present a quantum algorithm for finding the minimum of a function based on multistep quantum computation and apply it for optimization problems with continuous variables, in which the variables of the problem are discretized to form the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Hefeng Wang , Hua Xiang

This work presents a deep learning-based framework for the solution of partial differential equations on complex computational domains described with computer-aided design tools. To account for the underlying distribution of the training…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Moritz von Tresckow , Stefan Kurz , Herbert De Gersem , Dimitrios Loukrezis

Graphical functions have emerged as a powerful framework for evaluating multi-loop Feynman integrals in perturbative quantum field theory. Defined as massless three-point position-space integrals, they reveal rich analytic structures and…

An algorithm framework is proposed for minimizing nonsmooth functions. The framework is variable-metric in that, in each iteration, a step is computed using a symmetric positive definite matrix whose value is updated as in a quasi-Newton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

In the field of global optimization, many existing algorithms face challenges posed by non-convex target functions and high computational complexity or unavailability of gradient information. These limitations, exacerbated by sensitivity to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Xinyu Zhang , Sujit Ghosh

We present a global optimization routine for the variational quantum algorithms, which utilizes the dynamic tunneling flow. Originally designed to leverage information gathered by a gradient-based optimizer around local minima, we adapt the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Seung Park , Kyunghyun Baek , Seungjin Lee , Mahn-Soo Choi

We propose functional causal Bayesian optimization (fCBO), a method for finding interventions that optimize a target variable in a known causal graph. fCBO extends the CBO family of methods to enable functional interventions, which set a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-14 Limor Gultchin , Virginia Aglietti , Alexis Bellot , Silvia Chiappa

We formulate the first differentiable analog quantum computing framework with a specific parameterization design at the analog signal (pulse) level to better exploit near-term quantum devices via variational methods. We further propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Jiaqi Leng , Yuxiang Peng , Yi-Ling Qiao , Ming Lin , Xiaodi Wu

We introduce a new multimodal optimization approach called Natural Variational Annealing (NVA) that combines the strengths of three foundational concepts to simultaneously search for multiple global and local modes of black-box nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-18 Tâm LeMinh , Julyan Arbel , Thomas Möllenhoff , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Florence Forbes

In this paper, we present a probabilistic numerical algorithm combining dynamic programming, Monte Carlo simulations and local basis regressions to solve non-stationary optimal multiple switching problems in infinite horizon. We provide the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 René Aïd , Luciano Campi , Nicolas Langrené , Huyên Pham

We introduce a new training algorithm for deep neural networks that utilize random complex exponential activation functions. Our approach employs a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling procedure to iteratively train network layers, avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Owen Davis , Gianluca Geraci , Mohammad Motamed

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the quantum-enhanced Monte Carlo method [Nature, 619, 282-287 (2023)], aimed at identifying the optimal working point of the algorithm. We observe an optimal mixing Hamiltonian strength and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Johannes Christmann , Petr Ivashkov , Mattia Chiurco , Guglielmo Mazzola

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks can be employed to solve partial differential equations, giving rise to the framework of physics informed neural networks. We introduce a generalization for these methods that manifests as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Remco van der Meer , Cornelis Oosterlee , Anastasia Borovykh

Our work is motivated by a desire to study the theoretical underpinning for the convergence of stochastic gradient type algorithms widely used for non-convex learning tasks such as training of neural networks. The key insight, already…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Kaitong Hu , Zhenjie Ren , David Siska , Lukasz Szpruch

Variational quantum circuits are used in quantum machine learning and variational quantum simulation tasks. Designing good variational circuits or predicting how well they perform for given learning or optimization tasks is still unclear.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Junyu Liu , Francesco Tacchino , Jennifer R. Glick , Liang Jiang , Antonio Mezzacapo

Multi-objective optimization is central to many engineering and machine learning applications, where multiple objectives must be optimized in balance. While multi-gradient based optimization methods combine these objectives in each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Trang H. Tran , Luis Nunes Vicente

We propose an enhanced zeroth-order stochastic Frank-Wolfe framework to address constrained finite-sum optimization problems, a structure prevalent in large-scale machine-learning applications. Our method introduces a novel double variance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Haishan Ye , Yinghui Huang , Hao Di , Xiangyu Chang

Training large-scale neural networks requires solving nonconvex optimization where the choice of optimizer fundamentally determines both convergence behavior and computational efficiency. While adaptive methods like Adam have long dominated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Chenrui Xu , Wenjing Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

We investigate the use of variational wave-functions that mimic stochastic recurrent neural networks, specifically, unrestricted Boltzmann machines, as guiding functions in projective quantum Monte Carlo (PQMC) simulations of quantum spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-27 E. M. Inack , G. E. Santoro , L. Dell'Anna , S. Pilati