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Quantum Monte Carlo coupled with neural network wavefunctions has shown success in computing ground states of quantum many-body systems. Existing optimization approaches compute the energy by sampling local energy from an explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Xuan Zhang , Shenglong Xu , Shuiwang Ji

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) are a tractable representation of probability distributions allowing for exact and efficient computation of likelihoods and marginals. There has been significant recent progress on improving the scale and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Meihua Dang , Anji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck

We discuss differences and similarities between variational Monte Carlo approaches that use conventional and artificial neural network parameterizations of the ground-state wave function for systems of fermions. We focus on a relatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Even M. Nordhagen , Jane M. Kim , Bryce Fore , Alessandro Lovato , Morten Hjorth-Jensen

Computing the ground state of interacting quantum matter is a long-standing challenge, especially for complex two-dimensional systems. Recent developments have highlighted the potential of neural quantum states to solve the quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-03 Ao Chen , Markus Heyl

In this note, variational Monte Carlo method based on neural quantum states for spin systems is reviewed. Using a neural network as the wave function allows for a more generalized expression of various types of interactions, including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Yuntai Song

Recent demonstrations on specialized benchmarks have reignited excitement for quantum computers, yet whether they can deliver an advantage for practical real-world problems remains an open question. Here, we show that probabilistic…

The optimal use of quantum and classical computational techniques together is important to address problems that cannot be easily solved by quantum computations alone. This is the case of the ground state problem for quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Patrick Huembeli , Giuseppe Carleo , Antonio Mezzacapo

Stochastic Ising machines, sIMs, are highly promising accelerators for optimization and sampling of computational problems that can be formulated as an Ising model. Here we investigate the computational advantage of sIM for simulations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Rutger J. L. F. Berns , Davi R. Rodrigues , Giovanni Finocchio , Johan H. Mentink

The proliferation of probabilistic AI has prompted proposals for specialized stochastic computers. Despite promising efficiency gains, these proposals have failed to gain traction because they rely on fundamentally limited modeling…

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are a class of neural networks that have been successfully employed as a variational ansatz for quantum many-body wave functions. Here, we develop an analytic method to study quantum many-body spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiao-Qi Sun , Tamra Nebabu , Xizhi Han , Michael O. Flynn , Xiao-Liang Qi

Renewable energy projects, such as large offshore wind farms, are critical to achieving low-emission targets set by governments. Stochastic computer models allow us to explore future scenarios to aid decision making whilst considering the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-07 Jack C. Kennedy , Daniel A. Henderson , Kevin J. Wilson

Sampling random variables following a Boltzmann distribution is an NP-hard problem involved in various applications such as training of \textit{Boltzmann machines}, a specific kind of neural network. Several attempts have been made to use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Thomas Pochart , Paulin Jacquot , Joseph Mikael

Generative modeling with machine learning has provided a new perspective on the data-driven task of reconstructing quantum states from a set of qubit measurements. As increasingly large experimental quantum devices are built in…

Computing equilibrium states in condensed-matter many-body systems, such as solvated proteins, is a long-standing challenge. Lacking methods for generating statistically independent equilibrium samples in "one shot", vast computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-15 Frank Noé , Simon Olsson , Jonas Köhler , Hao Wu

The Boltzmann Machine (BM) is a neural network composed of stochastically firing neurons that can learn complex probability distributions by adapting the synaptic interactions between the neurons. BMs represent a very generic class of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Brian Kiraly , Elze J. Knol , Hilbert J. Kappen , Alexander A. Khajetoorians

Neural-network quantum states have shown great potential for the study of many-body quantum systems. In statistical machine learning, transfer learning designates protocols reusing features of a machine learning model trained for a problem…

The success of the transistor as the cornerstone of digital computation motivates analogous efforts to identify an equivalent hardware primitive, the probabilistic bit or p-bit, for the emerging paradigm of probabilistic computing. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Abir Hasan , Nikhil Shukla

Considering recent advancements and successes in the development of efficient quantum algorithms for electronic structure calculations --- alongside impressive results using machine learning techniques for computation --- hybridizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Rongxin Xia , Sabre Kais

Machine learning is actively being explored for its potential to design, validate, and even hybridize with near-term quantum devices. A central question is whether neural networks can provide a tractable representation of a given quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Giacomo Torlai , Roger G. Melko

The simulation of quantum many-body systems poses a significant challenge in physics due to the exponential scaling of Hilbert space with the number of particles. Traditional methods often struggle with large system sizes and frustrated…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-27 Avishek Singh , Nirmal Ganguli