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We investigate the performance of the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm in updating non-trivial global topological structures. We find that the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm has serious problems decorrelating the global topological charge. This…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-15 G. Boyd , B. Allés , M. D'Elia , A. Di Giacomo , E. Vicari

Conditional Monte Carlo or pre-integration is a powerful tool for reducing variance and improving the regularity of integrands when using Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. To select the variable to pre-integrate, one must…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-26 Sifan Liu

Importance sampling (IS) is a powerful Monte Carlo (MC) technique for approximating intractable integrals, for instance in Bayesian inference. The performance of IS relies heavily on the appropriate choice of the so-called proposal…

Computation · Statistics 2024-12-30 Ali Mousavi , Víctor Elvira

We study efficiency of higher order integrator schemes for the hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm. Numerical tests are performed for Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) with two flavors of Wilson fermions. We compare 2nd, 4th and 6th order…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsuya Takaishi

The Field-Transformation Hybrid Monte-Carlo (FTHMC) algorithm potentially mitigates the issue of critical slowing down by combining the HMC with a field transformation, originally proposed by L\"{u}scher and motivated as trivializing the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-11 Shuhei Yamamoto , Peter Boyle , Taku Izubuchi , Luchang Jin , Christoph Lehner , Nobuyuki Matsumoto

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are essential computational approaches with widespread use throughout all areas of science. We present a method for accelerating lattice MC simulations using fully connected and convolutional artificial neural…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-31 Shaozhi Li , Philip M. Dee , Ehsan Khatami , Steven Johnston

We present a variant of the HMC algorithm with mass preconditioning (Hasenbusch acceleration) and multiple time scale integration. We have tested this variant for standard Wilson fermions at beta=5.6 and at pion masses ranging from 380 MeV…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Urbach , K. Jansen , A. Shindler , U. Wenger

Recent research shows that the partition function for a class of models involving fermions can be written as a statistical mechanics of clusters with positive definite weights. This new representation of the model allows one to construct…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Shailesh Chandrasekharan

The Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of QCD with dynamical staggered fermions is compared with Kramers equation algorithm. We find substantially different autocorrelation times for local and nonlocal observables. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch , A. P. Gottlob , S. Meyer , M. Puetz

In the study of QCD dynamics, C* boundary conditions are physically relevant in certain cases. In this paper we study the implementation of these boundary conditions in the lattice formulation of full QCD with staggered fermions. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Carmona , M. D'Elia , A. Di Giacomo , B. Lucini

Critical slowing down presents a critical obstacle to lattice QCD calculation at the smaller lattice spacings made possible by Exascale computers. Inspired by the concept of Fourier acceleration, we study a version of the Riemannian…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-10 Tuan Nguyen , Peter Boyle , Norman Christ , Yong-Chull Jang , Chulwoo Jung

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach that exhibits favourable exploration properties in high-dimensional models such as neural networks. Unfortunately, HMC has limited use in large-data regimes and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-15 Adam D. Cobb , Brian Jalaian

We demonstrate the applicability of a recently proposed multiscale thermalization algorithm to two-color quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with two mass-degenerate fermion flavors. The algorithm involves refining an ensemble of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-06 William Detmold , Michael G. Endres

We compare the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) and the Kramers equation algorithms for simulations of QCD with two flavors of dynamical Wilson fermions and gauge group $SU(2)$. The results for the performance of both algorithms are obtained on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Karl Jansen , Chuan Liu

We propose the use of preconditioning in FCIQMC which, in combination with perturbative estimators, greatly increases the efficiency of the algorithm. The use of preconditioning allows a time step close to unity to be used (without…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Nick S. Blunt , Alex J. W. Thom , Charles J. C. Scott

We consider recent progress in algorithms for generating gauge field configurations that include the dynamical effects of light fermions. We survey what has been achieved in recent state-of-the-art computations, and examine the trade-offs…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Kennedy

We introduce and compare three different Monte Carlo determinantal algorithms that allow one to compute dynamical quantities, such as the self-energy, of fermionic systems in their thermodynamic limit. We show that the most efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-14 Alice Moutenet , Wei Wu , Michel Ferrero

The analysis developed by L\"uscher and Schaefer of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is extended to include Fourier acceleration. We show for the $\phi^4$ theory that Fourier acceleration substantially changes the structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-14 Norman H. Christ , Evan W. Wickenden

We present a scalable Bayesian framework for the analysis of confocal fluorescence spectroscopy data, addressing key limitations in traditional fluorescence correlation spectroscopy methods. Our framework captures molecular motion,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Daniel McBride , Ioannis Sgouralis

The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) method has been recognized as a powerful sampling tool in computational statistics. We show that performance of HMC can be significantly improved by incorporating importance sampling and an irreversible…

Computation · Statistics 2019-07-26 Tijana Radivojević , Elena Akhmatskaya