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Cosmology places the strongest current limits on the sum of neutrino masses. Future observations will further improve the sensitivity and this will require accurate cosmological simulations to quantify possible systematic uncertainties and…

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We present results of tests of the evolution of small ``fluid elements'' in cosmological N--body simulations, to examine the validity of their treatment as particles. We find that even very small elements typically collapse along one axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Kuhlman , A. L. Melott , S. F. Shandarin

We adapt reinforcement learning (RL) methods for continuous control to bridge the gap between complete ignorance and perfect knowledge of the environment. Our method, Partial Knowledge Least Squares Policy Iteration (PLSPI), takes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Shuyuan Wang , Philip D. Loewen , Nathan P. Lawrence , Michael G. Forbes , R. Bhushan Gopaluni

The penalization method is a popular technique to provide particle swarm optimizers with the ability to handle constraints. The downside is the need of penalization coefficients whose settings are problem-specific. While adaptive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

We describe recent progress in developing practical ab initio methods for which the computer effort is proportional to the number of atoms: linear scaling or O(N) methods. It is shown that the locality property of the density matrix gives a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Bowler , I. J. Bush , M. J. Gillan

Magnetic resonance elastography is a motion-sensitive image modality that allows to measure in vivo tissue displacement fields in response to mechanical excitations. This paper investigates a data assimilation approach for reconstructing…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents typically learn memoryless policies---policies that only consider the last observation when selecting actions. Learning memoryless policies is efficient and optimal in fully observable environments.…

The use of reinforcement learning (RL) methods to support health behavior change via personalized and just-in-time adaptive interventions is of significant interest to health and behavioral science researchers focused on problems such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Karine Karine , Benjamin M. Marlin

The interpretation of redshift surveys requires modeling the relationship between large-scale fluctuations in the observed number density of tracers, $\delta_\mathrm{h}$, and the underlying matter density, $\delta$. Bias models often…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kim F. Werner , Cristiano Porciani

Simulated virtual environments serve as one of the main driving forces behind developing and evaluating skill learning algorithms. However, existing environments typically only simulate rigid body physics. Additionally, the simulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Zhiao Huang , Yuanming Hu , Tao Du , Siyuan Zhou , Hao Su , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Within a cosmological context, we study the behaviour of collisionless particles in the weak field approximation to General Relativity, allowing for large gradients of the fields and relativistic velocities for the particles. We consider a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Julian Adamek , Mateja Gosenca , Shaun Hotchkiss

NVIDIA researchers have pioneered an explicit method, position-based dynamics (PBD), for simulating systems with contact forces, gaining widespread use in computer graphics and animation. While the method yields visually compelling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Steffen Plunder , Sara Merino-Aceituno

Abridged. Kinetic plasma simulations are nowadays commonly used to study a wealth of non-linear behaviours and properties in laboratory and space plasmas. In particular, in high-energy physics and astrophysics, the plasma usually evolves in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 J. Pétri

The values of the presently available truncated perturbative expressions for the pressure of the quark-gluon plasma at finite temperatures and finite chemical potential are trustworthy only at very large energies. When used down to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Cvetic , R. Koegerler

While reinforcement learning (RL) holds great potential for decision making in the real world, it suffers from a number of unique difficulties which often need specific consideration. In particular: it is highly non-stationary; suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Alexander David Goldie , Chris Lu , Matthew Thomas Jackson , Shimon Whiteson , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

Next generation galaxy surveys demand the development of massive ensembles of galaxy mocks to model the observables and their covariances, what is computationally prohibitive using $N$-body simulations. COLA is a novel method designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Albert Izard , Martin Crocce , Pablo Fosalba

We present the reduced basis method as a tool for developing emulators for equations with tunable parameters within the context of the nuclear many-body problem. The method uses a basis expansion informed by a set of solutions for a few…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Edgard Bonilla , Pablo Giuliani , Kyle Godbey , Dean Lee

Self-supervised learning has brought about a revolutionary paradigm shift in various computing domains, including NLP, vision, and biology. Recent approaches involve pre-training transformer models on vast amounts of unlabeled data, serving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Raphael Boige , Yannis Flet-Berliac , Arthur Flajolet , Guillaume Richard , Thomas Pierrot

We present sCOLA -- an extension of the N-body COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) method to the spatial domain. Similar to the original temporal-domain COLA, sCOLA is an N-body method for solving for large-scale structure in a frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-02 Svetlin Tassev , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Matias Zaldarriaga

We assess the performance of a recently proposed renormalized adiabatic local density approximation (rALDA) for \textit{ab initio} calculations of electronic correlation energies in solids and molecules. The method is an extension of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-30 Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen