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We compare the ground state of the random-field Ising model with Gaussian distributed random fields, with its non-equilibrium hysteretic counterpart, the demagnetized state. This is a low energy state obtained by a sequence of slow magnetic…

Restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) provide a general framework for modeling physical systems, but their behavior is dependent on hyperparameters such as the learning rate, the number of hidden nodes and the form of the threshold function.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 David Yevick , Roger Melko

Influence maximization (IM) is a fundamental problem in complex network analysis, with a wide range of real-world applications. To date, existing approaches to influential node identification in IM have predominantly relied on standard…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Qianshi Wang , Xilong Qu , Wenbin Pei , Nan Li , Qiang Zhang

Natural gradients have long been studied in deep reinforcement learning due to their fast convergence properties and covariant weight updates. However, computing natural gradients requires inversion of the Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yingxiao Huo , Satya Prakash Dash , Radu Stoican , Samuel Kaski , Mingfei Sun

The quality of numerical reconstructions for unknown parameters in inverse problems depends fundamentally on the selection of experimental data. To ensure a robust reconstruction, it is crucial to select data that are sensitive to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Kathrin Hellmuth , Christian Klingenberg , Qin Li

We provide time- and sample-efficient algorithms for learning and testing latent-tree Ising models, i.e. Ising models that may only be observed at their leaf nodes. On the learning side, we obtain efficient algorithms for learning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Davin Choo , Yuval Dagan , Constantinos Daskalakis , Anthimos Vardis Kandiros

Recent progress in randomized motion planners has led to the development of a new class of sampling-based algorithms that provide asymptotic optimality guarantees, notably the RRT* and the PRM* algorithms. Careful analysis reveals that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Oktay Arslan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We propose an environment recycling scheme to speed up a class of tensor network algorithms that produce an approximation to the ground state of a local Hamiltonian by simulating an evolution in imaginary time. Specifically, we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Ho N. Phien , Ian P. McCulloch , Guifré Vidal

Inspired by the developments in quantum computing, building domain-specific classical hardware to solve computationally hard problems has received increasing attention. Here, by introducing systematic sparsification techniques, we…

The paper illustrates an application of the Resampling approach [2] for the estimation of the aircraft circulation plan reliability. Resampling is an intensive computer statistical method, which can be used effectively in the case of small…

Applications · Statistics 2013-05-14 Maxim Fioshin

In Reinforcement Learning (RL), enhancing sample efficiency is crucial, particularly in scenarios when data acquisition is costly and risky. In principle, off-policy RL algorithms can improve sample efficiency by allowing multiple updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Hojoon Lee , Hanseul Cho , Hyunseung Kim , Daehoon Gwak , Joonkee Kim , Jaegul Choo , Se-Young Yun , Chulhee Yun

An overview of some methods of statistical physics applied to the analysis of algorithms for optimization problems (satisfiability of Boolean constraints, vertex cover of graphs, decoding, ...) with distributions of random inputs is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson , Andrea Montanari , Guilhem Semerjian

We consider the problem of jointly estimating the parameters as well as the structure of binary valued Markov Random Fields, in contrast to earlier work that focus on one of the two problems. We formulate the problem as a maximization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-11-11 M. Kolar , E. P. Xing

Real world re-identfication (ReID) algorithms aim to map new observations of an object to previously recorded instances. These systems are often constrained by quantity and size of the stored embeddings. To combat this scaling problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Luke McDermott

Performative prediction is a framework accounting for the shift in the data distribution induced by the prediction of a model deployed in the real world. Ensuring rapid convergence to a stable solution where the data distribution remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Pedram Khorsandi , Rushil Gupta , Mehrnaz Mofakhami , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Gauthier Gidel

We consider a model of random curves in the plane related to the large-scale behavior of the Random Field Ising Model (RFIM) at temperature zero in two space dimensions. Our work is motivated by attempts to quantify the Imry--Ma phenomenon…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Tobias Ried , Christian Wagner

We first present an empirical study of the Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm, when run on the random field Ising model defined on random regular graphs in the zero temperature limit. We introduce the notion of maximal solutions for the BP…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-01 Gabriele Perugini , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

This paper proposes an algorithm to find robust reliability-based topology optimized designs under a random-field material model. The initial design domain is made of linear elastic material whose property, i.e., Young's modulus, is modeled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Trung Pham , Christopher Hoyle

Along the way initiated by Carleo and Troyer [1], we construct the neural-network quantum state of transverse-field Ising model(TFIM) by an unsupervised machine learning method. Such a wave function is a map from the spin-configuration…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-08 Han-qing Shi , Xiao-yue Sun , Ding-fang Zeng

This paper presents an approach to fast image registration through probabilistic pixel sampling. We propose a practical scheme to leverage the benefits of two state-of-the-art pixel sampling approaches: gradient magnitude based pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Boris N. Oreshkin , Tal Arbel