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The Complex Langevin (CL) method to simulate `complex probabilities', ideally produces expectation values for the observables that converge to a limit equal to the expectation values obtained with the original complex `probability' measure.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-12-01 Erhard Seiler , Dénes Sexty , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

One reason for the well known fact that the Complex Langevin (CL) method sometimes fails to converge or converges to the wrong limit has been identified long ago: it is insufficient decay of the probability density either near infinity or…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-15 M. Scherzer , E. Seiler , D. Sexty , I. -O. Stamatescu

I review the status of the Complex Langevin method, which was invented to make simulations of models with complex action feasible. I discuss the mathematical justification of the procedure, as well as its limitations and open questions.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Erhard Seiler

We present our latest results on the application of the complex Langevin method to one- and two-dimensional QCD. Although the method is stable, it unfortunately converges to an incorrect result when applied as such. After applying…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-24 Jacques Bloch , Johannes Mahr , Sebastian Schmalzbauer

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem, which emerges in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Over the past decade, stabilization techniques for CL have been developed with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-18 Kirill Boguslavski , Paul Hotzy , David I. Müller

The sign problem appears in lattice QCD as soon as a non-zero chemical potential is introduced. This prevents direct simulations to determine the phase structure of the strongly interacting matter. Complex Langevin methods have been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger

We study the use of the complex-Langevin equation (CLE) to simulate lattice QCD at a finite chemical potential ($\mu$) for quark-number, which has a complex fermion determinant that prevents the use of standard simulation methods based on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-10-02 J. B. Kogut , D. K. Sinclair

Metric and kernel learning are important in several machine learning applications. However, most existing metric learning algorithms are limited to learning metrics over low-dimensional data, while existing kernel learning algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-11-02 Prateek Jain , Brian Kulis , Jason V. Davis , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Models like support vector machines or Gaussian process regression often require positive semi-definite kernels. These kernels may be based on distance functions. While definiteness is proven for common distances and kernels, a proof for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , Günter Rudolph

The effective kinetic theory (EKT) of QCD provides a possible picture of various non-equilibrium processes in heavy- and light-ion collisions. While there have been substantial advances in simulating the EKT in simple systems with enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-01 Sergio Barrera Cabodevila , Aleksi Kurkela , Florian Lindenbauer

Complex-valued signals are used in the modeling of many systems in engineering and science, hence being of fundamental interest. Often, random complex-valued signals are considered to be proper. A proper complex random variable or process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Rafael Boloix-Tortosa , F. Javier Payán-Somet , Eva Arias-de-Reyna , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes

Recently the complex Langevin method (CLM) has been attracting attention as a solution to the sign problem, which occurs in Monte Carlo calculations when the effective Boltzmann weight is not real positive. An undesirable feature of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-13 Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

A well-recognized limitation of kernel learning is the requirement to handle a kernel matrix, whose size is quadratic in the number of training examples. Many methods have been proposed to reduce this computational cost, mostly by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Yishay Mansour , Ohad Shamir

The main purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of vector lattices and the related abstract modular convergence to the context of Mellin-type kernels and (non)linear vector lattice-valued operators, following the construction of an…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Antonio Boccuto , Anna Rita Sambucini

Complex Langevin dynamics can be used to perform numerical simulations of theories with a complex action. In order to justify the procedure, it is important to understand the properties of the real and positive distribution, which is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-09-13 Pietro Giudice , Gert Aarts , Erhard Seiler

The complex Langevin method (CLM) provides a promising way to perform the path integral with a complex action using a stochastic equation for complexified dynamical variables. It is known, however, that the method gives wrong results in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-01 Shinji Shimasaki , Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura

We investigate a series of learning kernel problems with polynomial combinations of base kernels, which will help us solve regression and classification problems. We also perform some numerical experiments of polynomial kernels with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Chen Li , Luca Venturi , Ruitu Xu

In this review we present the current state-of-the-art on complex Langevin simulations and their implications for the QCD phase diagram. After a short summary of the complex Langevin method, we present and discuss recent developments. Here…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-10-28 Felipe Attanasio , Benjamin Jäger , Felix P. G. Ziegler

The complex Langevin method (CLM) offers a potential solution to the sign problem in quantum field theories with complex actions, but can converge to incorrect results even when simulations appear stable. Existing diagnostics monitor drift…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-30 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

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