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Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) via a previously introduced method is effective, but time-consuming, because multiport impedance or scatter matrices are required for each transmitter and receiver position, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Hans-Dieter Lang , Michel A. Nyffenegger , Heinz Mathis , Xingqi Zhang

We investigate the nucleation dynamics of the three-dimensional random field Ising model (RFIM) under an external field. We use umbrella sampling to compute the free-energy cost of a critical nucleus, and use forward flux sampling for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-09 Liheng Yao , Robert L. Jack

The random field Ising model with Gaussian disorder is studied using a new Monte Carlo algorithm. The algorithm combines the advantanges of the replica exchange method and the two-replica cluster method and is much more efficient than the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jon Machta , Mark Newman , Lincoln Chayes

The Ising model, originally proposed a century ago, has become a cornerstone of combinatorial optimization in recent decades. However, Ising machines remain constrained by a fundamental hardware-speed trade-off. We introduce the Bounce-Bind…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haiyang Zhang , Hao Wang , Rui Zhou , Sheng Chang

The Random-Field Ising Model (RFIM) has been extensively studied as a model system for understanding the effects of disorder in magnets. Since the late 1970s, there has been a particular focus on realizations of the RFIM in site-diluted…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-01-16 D. M. Silevitch , D. Bitko , J. Brooke , S. Ghosh , G. Aeppli , T. F. Rosenbaum

We study the ferromagnetic random field Ising model (RFIM) on a graph $G=(V,E)$ having maximal degree $\Delta$, where the external field at each vertex is an i.i.d. random variable. When the random field distribution is sufficiently…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Yi Han

The reconstruction of interaction networks between random events is a critical problem arising from statistical physics and politics, sociology, biology, psychology, and beyond. The Ising model lays the foundation for this reconstruction…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-17 Xuanyu Chen , Jin Zhu , Junxian Zhu , Xueqin Wang , Heping Zhang

We propose a data-driven heuristic for NP-hard Ising and Max-Cut optimization that learns the update rule of an iterative dynamical system. The method learns a shared, node-wise update rule that maps local interaction fields to spin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sam Reifenstein , Timothee Leleu

Scalable high-quality MAP inference in arbitrary-order Markov Random Fields (MRFs) remains challenging. Approximate message-passing methods are often efficient but can degrade on dense or high-order instances, while exact solvers such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yaomin Wang , Chaolong Ying , Xiaodong Luo , Tianshu Yu

We provide algorithms for isotonic regression minimizing $L_0$ error (Hamming distance). This is also known as monotonic relabeling, and is applicable when labels have a linear ordering but not necessarily a metric. There may be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Quentin F. Stout

The three-dimensional bimodal random-field Ising model is studied via a new finite temperature numerical approach. The methods of Wang-Landau sampling and broad histogram are implemented in a unified algorithm by using the N-fold version of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-01 Nikolaos G. Fytas , Anastasios Malakis

We propose the misclassified Ising Model; a framework for analyzing dependent binary data where the binary state is susceptible to error. We extend the theoretical results of the model selection method presented in Ravikumar et. al. (2010)…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-21 David G. Sinclair , Giles Hooker

The exact determination of ground states of small systems is used in a scaling study of the random-field Ising model. While three variants of the model are found to be in the same universality class in 3 dimensions, the Gaussian and bimodal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael R. Swift , Alan J. Bray , Amos Maritan , Marek Cieplak , Jayanth R. Banavar

Efficiently reranking documents retrieved from information retrieval (IR) pipelines to enhance overall quality of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system remains an important yet challenging problem. Recent studies have highlighted the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jingyu Wu , Aditya Shrivastava , Jing Zhu , Alfy Samuel , Anoop Kumar , Daben Liu

We analyze the depinning transition of a driven interface in the 3d random-field Ising model (RFIM) with quenched disorder by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The interface initially built into the system is perpendicular to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Roters , A. Hucht , S. Lubeck , U. Nowak , K. D. Usadel

Ising model with quenched random magnetic fields is examined for single Gaussian, bimodal and double Gaussian random field distributions by introducing an effective field approximation that takes into account the correlations between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-14 Ümit Akıncı , Yusuf Yüksel , Hamza Polat

The Kohn-Sham method uses a single model system, and corrects it by a density functional the exact user friendly expression of which is not known and is replaced by an approximated, usable, model. We propose to use instead more than one…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Étienne Polack , Yvon Maday , Andreas Savin

In this paper, we build and explore supervised learning models of ferromagnetic system behavior, using Monte-Carlo sampling of the spin configuration space generated by the 2D Ising model. Given the enormous size of the space of all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-06 Nataliya Portman , Isaac Tamblyn

In this paper, we present the RISE-SLAM algorithm for performing visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), while improving estimation consistency. Specifically, in order to achieve real-time operation, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Tong Ke , Kejian J. Wu , Stergios I. Roumeliotis

The general-purpose programmable photonic processors offer a scalable and reconfigurable solution for a wide range of RF and optical applications. Therefore, implementing photonic Ising machines using programmable processors leverages the…