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Many practical tasks involve sampling sequentially without replacement (WoR) from a finite population of size $N$, in an attempt to estimate some parameter $\theta^\star$. Accurately quantifying uncertainty throughout this process is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-11 Ian Waudby-Smith , Aaditya Ramdas

An easy-to-implement form of the Metropolis Algorithm is described which, unlike most standard techniques, is well suited to sampling from multi-modal distributions on spaces with moderate numbers of dimensions (order ten) in environments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin C. Allanach , Christopher G. Lester

Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood generative models with importance sampling, but practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Weilong Chen , Bojun Zhao , Jan Eckwert , Julija Zavadlav

In this work, we study how to use sampling to speed up mechanisms for answering adaptive queries into datasets without reducing the accuracy of those mechanisms. This is important to do when both the datasets and the number of queries asked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Benjamin Fish , Lev Reyzin , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Today's quantum processors composed of fifty or more qubits have allowed us to enter a computational era where the output results are not easily simulatable on the world's biggest supercomputers. What we have not seen yet, however, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Akitada Sakurai , Marta P. Estarellas , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

This paper introduces a novel data-free model extraction attack that significantly advances the current state-of-the-art in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness. Traditional black-box methods rely on using the victim's model as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Maor Biton Dor , Yisroel Mirsky

We demonstrate how boson sampling with photons of partial distinguishability can be expressed in terms of interference of fewer photons. We use this observation to propose a classical algorithm to simulate the output of a boson sampler fed…

In this work, we present a new random sampling method for data streams where the probability of an element's inclusion in the sample is proportional to a weight associated with that element. Our method is based on sampling with replacement,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Adriano Meligrana , Adriano Fazzone

We present CombOL (Combinatorial Objects Library), an open-source library for the enumeration and Boltzmann sampling of combinatorial classes. Classes can be specified by a concise string syntax, and may depend on an arbitrary number of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Casper Asbjørn Eriksen , Daniel Merkle

Boson-sampling is a simplified model for quantum computing that may hold the key to implementing the first ever post-classical quantum computer. Boson-sampling is a non-universal quantum computer that is significantly more straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Bryan T. Gard , Keith R. Motes , Jonathan P. Olson , Peter P. Rohde , Jonathan P. Dowling

We propose a flexible nonparametric Bayesian modelling framework for multivariate time series of count data based on tensor factorisations. Our models can be viewed as infinite state space Markov chains of known maximal order with…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-13 Zhongzhen Wang , Petros Dellaportas , Ioannis Kosmidis

The first post-classical computation will most probably be performed not on a universal quantum computer, but rather on a dedicated quantum hardware. A strong candidate for achieving this is represented by the task of sampling from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Borja Peropadre , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Joonsuk Huh , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum computers are now on the brink of outperforming their classical counterparts. One way to demonstrate the advantage of quantum computation is through quantum random sampling performed on quantum computing devices. However, existing…

Boson sampling is a mathematical problem that is strongly believed to be intractable for classical computers, whereas passive linear interferometers can produce samples efficiently. So far, the problem remains a computational curiosity, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Georgios M. Nikolopoulos , Thomas Brougham

We consider M systems (each an electron in a long square cylinder) uniformly arranged on a ring and with Coulomb interactions. Exact straightforward numerical time-dependent perturbation calculation of a single N-level ($\lesssim 7$)…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Michael J. Caola

We present and empirically evaluate an efficient algorithm that learns to aggregate the predictions of an ensemble of binary classifiers. The algorithm uses the structure of the ensemble predictions on unlabeled data to yield significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Akshay Balsubramani , Yoav Freund

Second-order structure functions and power spectral densities are popular tools in the study of statistical properties across scales, particularly for the analysis of turbulent flows. Although intimately related, analyses primarily use one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-16 Mark A. Bishop , Sean Oughton , Tulasi N. Parashar , Yvette C. Perrott

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and models derived from them have been successfully used as basic building blocks in deep artificial neural networks for automatic features extraction, unsupervised weights initialization, but also as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Antonio Liotta

Restricted Boltzmann machines are undirected neural networks which have been shown to be effective in many applications, including serving as initializations for training deep multi-layer neural networks. One of the main reasons for their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-02-11 Marylou Gabrié , Eric W. Tramel , Florent Krzakala

The well-known Gumbel-Max trick for sampling from a categorical distribution can be extended to sample $k$ elements without replacement. We show how to implicitly apply this 'Gumbel-Top-$k$' trick on a factorized distribution over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Wouter Kool , Herke van Hoof , Max Welling