Related papers: Flat histogram PERM
We present $\texttt{BHM}$, a tool for restoring a smooth function from a sampled histogram using the bin hierarchy method. The theoretical background of the method is presented in [arXiv:1707.07625]. The code automatically generates a…
We provide analysis of the convergence properties and applicability extensions of flat-histogram algorithms, with a particular focus on the Wang-Landau algorithms (exemplified by converging stochastic approximation Monte Carlo (SAMC)) and…
We investigate semi-stiff interacting self-avoiding walks on the square lattice with random impurities. The walks are simulated using the flatPERM algorithm and the inhomogeneity is realised as a random fraction of the lattice that is…
Modern methods for sampling rugged landscapes in state space mainly rely on knowledge of the relative probabilities of microstates, which is given by the Boltzmann factor for equilibrium systems. In principle, trajectory reweighting…
Sampling with the Generalised Atmospheric Rosenbluth Method (GARM) is a technique for estimating the distributions of lattice polymer models that has had some success in the study of linear polymers and lattice polygons. In this paper we…
We propose a method for efficient simulations in extended ensembles, useful, e.g., for the study of problems with complex energy landscapes and for free energy calculations. The main difficulty in such simulations is the estimation of the a…
We present a dynamic nonlocal hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm consisting of pivot and ``cut-and-permute'' moves. The algorithm is suitable for the study of polymers in semiconfined geometries at the ordinary transition, where the pivot…
Material properties such as permeability fields in heterogeneous porous media are often represented as discontinuous, piecewise constant data tied to a given spatial discretization. Such representations are inherently mesh-dependent,…
The histogram reweighting technique, widely used to analyze Monte Carlo data, is shown to be applicable to dynamic properties obtained from Molecular Dynamics simulations. The theory presented here is based on the fact that the correlation…
We analyze the conformational properties of polymer macromolecules in solutions in presence of extended structural obstacles of (fractal) dimension $\varepsilon_d$ causing the anisotropy of environment. Applying the pruned-enriched…
We describe an algorithm for the Rosenbluth Monte Carlo enumeration of clusters and lattice animals. The method may also be used to calculate associated properties such as moments or perimeter multiplicities of the clusters. The new scheme…
Lifelong SLAM considers long-term operation of a robot where already mapped locations are revisited many times in changing environments. As a result, traditional graph-based SLAM approaches eventually become extremely slow due to the…
We study nonparametric estimation of univariate cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) pertaining to data missing at random. The proposed estimators smooth the inverse probability weighted (IPW) empirical CDF with the Bernstein operator,…
In this paper a recently developed projector-based renormalization method (PRM) for many-particle Hamiltonians is applied to the periodic Anderson model (PAM) with the aim to describe heavy Fermion behavior. In this method high-energetic…
The paper exposes a non-parametric approach to latent and co-latent modeling of bivariate data, based upon alternating minimization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence (EM algorithm) for complete log-linear models. For categorical data, the…
A self-interacting polymer with one end attached to a sticky surface has been studied by means of a flat-histogram stochastic growth algorithm known as FlatPERM. We examined the four-dimensional parameter space of the number of monomers up…
We perform numerical simulations of the lattice-animal problem at the upper critical dimension d=8 on hypercubic lattices in order to investigate logarithmic corrections to scaling there. Our stochastic sampling method is based on the…
We demonstrate how a prior assumption of smoothness can be used to enhance the reconstruction of free energy profiles from multiple umbrella sampling simulations using the Bayesian Gaussian process regression approach. The method we derive…
We present a new Monte Carlo algorithm that produces results of high accuracy with reduced simulational effort. Independent random walks are performed (concurrently or serially) in different, restricted ranges of energy, and the resultant…
The SetCover problem has been extensively studied in many different models of computation, including parallel and distributed settings. From an approximation point of view, there are two standard guarantees: an $O(\log…