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This paper discusses a class of thresholding-based iterative selection procedures (TISP) for model selection and shrinkage. People have long before noticed the weakness of the convex $l_1$-constraint (or the soft-thresholding) in wavelets…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-29 Yiyuan She

Entangled two-photon absorption (ETPA) may be a viable technique to continuously drive an excited state population in plasma for high-bandwidth spectroscopy measurements of localized plasma turbulence or impurity density. Classical…

We study the high-temperature regime of a mean-field spin glass model whose couplings matrix is orthogonally invariant in law. The magnetization of this model is conjectured to satisfy a system of TAP equations, originally derived by Parisi…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Zhou Fan , Yufan Li , Subhabrata Sen

We devise a deterministic algorithm to efficiently sample high-quality solutions of certain spin-glass systems that encode hard optimization problems. We employ tensor networks to represent the Gibbs distribution of all possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-07 Marek M. Rams , Masoud Mohseni , Daniel Eppens , Konrad Jałowiecki , Bartłomiej Gardas

The rapid growth of entanglement under unitary time evolution is the primary bottleneck for modern tensor-network techniques--such as Matrix Product States (MPS)--when computing time-dependent expectation values. This {entanglement barrier}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Stefano Carignano , Guglielmo Lami , Jacopo De Nardis , Luca Tagliacozzo

Entangled two-photon absorption (eTPA) has been recognized as a potentially powerful tool for the implementation of ultra-sensitive spectroscopy. Unfortunately, there exists a general agreement in the quantum optics community that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Áulide Martínez-Tapia , Roberto de J. León-Montiel

Understanding dissipation in 2D quantum many-body systems is a remarkably difficult open challenge. Here we show how numerical simulations for this problem are possible by means of a tensor network algorithm that approximates steady-states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-27 Augustine Kshetrimayum , Hendrik Weimer , Roman Orus

This note introduces a method for sampling Ising models with mixed boundary conditions. As an application of annealed importance sampling and the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, the method adopts a sequence of intermediate distributions that keeps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Lexing Ying

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms can help mitigating the physical limitations of current quantum devices, particularly the low qubit count and the reduced topological connectivity. In this paper, we propose a hybrid technique to solve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Siwei Hu , Victor Lopata , Salvatore Sinno , Shruthi Thuravakkath , Paolo Zuliani

Hybrid tensor networks offer a promising route to enhance the expressivity of classical tensor network methods by incorporating quantum states prepared on a quantum computer. Existing approaches are limited by the variational optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Julian Schuhmacher , Alberto Baiardi , Francesco Tacchino , Ivano Tavernelli

We analyze the low-temperature behavior of mean-field equations of Thouless, Anderson, and Palmer (TAP). We demonstrate that degeneracy in free energy makes the low-temperature TAP states unstable. Different solutions of the TAP equations,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-09-16 V. Janis

In this paper, we introduce a tensor network (TN) scheme into the entanglement augmentation process of the synergistic optimization framework by Rudolph et al. [arXiv:2208.13673] to build its process systematically for inhomogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Ryo Watanabe , Keisuke Fujii , Hiroshi Ueda

Optimisation problems in science and engineering typically involve finding the ground state (i.e. the minimum energy configuration) of a cost function with respect to many variables. If the variables are corrupted by noise then this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Nicholas Chancellor , Szilard Szoke , Walter Vinci , Gabriel Aeppli , Paul A. Warburton

Annealing-based neural samplers seek to amortize sampling from unnormalized distributions by training neural networks to transport a family of densities interpolating from source to target. A crucial design choice in the training phase of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ezra Erives , Bowen Jing , Peter Holderrieth , Tommi Jaakkola

There has been a recent surge of powerful tools to show rapid mixing of Markov chains, via functional inequalities such as Poincar\'e inequalities. In many situations, Markov chains fail to mix rapidly from a worst-case initialization, yet…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Brice Huang , Sidhanth Mohanty , Amit Rajaraman , David X. Wu

Test-time adaptation (TTA) methods, which generally rely on the model's predictions (e.g., entropy minimization) to adapt the source pretrained model to the unlabeled target domain, suffer from noisy signals originating from 1) incorrect or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jungsoo Lee , Debasmit Das , Jaegul Choo , Sungha Choi

Computing free energy is a fundamental problem in statistical physics. Recently, two distinct methods have been developed and have demonstrated remarkable success: the tensor-network-based contraction method and the neural-network-based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hanyan Cao , Yijia Wang , Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

We introduce a method for extracting meaningful entanglement measures of tensor network states in general dimensions. Current methods require the explicit reconstruction of the density matrix, which is highly demanding, or the contraction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-28 Noa Feldman , Augustine Kshetrimayum , Jens Eisert , Moshe Goldstein

A generic algorithm for the extraction of probabilistic (Bayesian) information about model parameters from data is presented. The algorithm propagates an ensemble of particles in the product space of model parameters and outputs. Each…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-18 Carlo Albert

Tensor networks (TNs) enable compact representations of large tensors through shared parameters. Their use in probabilistic modeling is particularly appealing, as probabilistic tensor networks (PTNs) allow for tractable computation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Marawan Gamal Abdel Hameed , Guillaume Rabusseau