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A method for the multifidelity Monte Carlo (MFMC) estimation of statistical quantities is proposed which is applicable to computational budgets of any size. Based on a sequence of optimization problems each with a globally minimizing…

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We reconsider a nonparametric density model based on Gaussian processes. By augmenting the model with latent P\'olya--Gamma random variables and a latent marked Poisson process we obtain a new likelihood which is conjugate to the model's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-30 Christian Donner , Manfred Opper

We present an efficient algorithm for the inference of stochastic block models in large networks. The algorithm can be used as an optimized Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, with a fast mixing time and a much reduced susceptibility to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-01-14 Tiago P. Peixoto

We propose a versatile and efficient algorithmic framework for optimizing fermion-to-qubit mappings by generalizing the idea of randomized block coordinate descent. Our greedy approach, termed Randomized Subsystem Descent, iteratively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Gengzhi Yang , Di Wu , Haizhao Yang , Xiaodi Wu , Ji Liu

We formulate a path-integral Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating lattice systems consisting of fictitious particles governed by a generalized exchange statistics. This method, initially proposed for continuum systems, introduces a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Zhijie Fan , Tianning Xiao , Youjin Deng

We describe a numerical algorithm for approximating the equilibrium-reduced density matrix and the effective (mean force) Hamiltonian for a set of system spins coupled strongly to a set of bath spins when the total system (system+bath) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Tyler Chen , Yu-Chen Cheng

Self-learning Monte Carlo method [arXiv:1610.03137, 1611.09364] is a powerful general-purpose numerical method recently introduced to simulate many-body systems. In this work, we implement this method in the framework of determinantal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-12 Xiao Yan Xu , Yang Qi , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu , Zi Yang Meng

We propose a batchwise monotone algorithm for dictionary learning. Unlike the state-of-the-art dictionary learning algorithms which impose sparsity constraints on a sample-by-sample basis, we instead treat the samples as a batch, and impose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Huan Wang , John Wright , Daniel Spielman

We derive the optimal proposal density for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) (or Population Monte Carlo, PMC). The criterion for optimality is that the SMC/PMC-ABC sampler maximise the effective…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Justin Alsing , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Stephen M. Feeney

We introduce a Bayesian approach to predictive density calibration and combination that accounts for parameter uncertainty and model set incompleteness through the use of random calibration functionals and random combination weights.…

Applications · Statistics 2016-10-26 Federico Bassetti , Roberto Casarin , Francesco Ravazzolo

Tuning of measurement models is challenging in real-world applications of sequential Monte Carlo methods. Recent advances in differentiable particle filters have led to various efforts to learn measurement models through neural networks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Xiongjie Chen , Yunpeng Li

This paper proposes a new class of real-time optimization schemes to overcome system-model mismatch of uncertain processes. This work's novelty lies in integrating derivative-free optimization schemes and multi-fidelity Gaussian processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Panagiotis Petsagkourakis , Benoit Chachuat , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio-Chanona

A thorough account is given of the derivation of uniform semiclassical approximations to the particle and kinetic energy densities of N noninteracting bounded fermions in one dimension. The employed methodology allows the inclusion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Kieron Burke

The Pseudo-Marginal (PM) algorithm is a popular Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method used to sample from a target distribution when its density is inaccessible, but can be estimated with a non-negative unbiased estimator. Its performance…

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We present a reduced-dimension, ballistic deposition, Monte Carlo particle packing algorithm and discuss its application to the analysis of the microstructure of hard-sphere systems with broad particle size distributions. We extend our…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D. Webb , I. L. Davis

Monte Carlo simulations of systems with a complex action are known to be extremely difficult. A new approach to this problem based on a factorization property of distribution functions of observables has been proposed recently. The method…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-02-03 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos , J. Nishimura , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

In this paper we present a novel approach towards variance reduction for discretised diffusion processes. The proposed approach involves specially constructed control variates and allows for a significant reduction in the variance for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Denis Belomestny , Stefan Häfner , Mikhail Urusov

We present results for lattice QCD with staggered fermions in the limit of infinite gauge coupling, obtained from a worm-type Monte Carlo algorithm on a discrete spatial lattice but with continuous Euclidean time. This is achieved by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-08 Wolfgang Unger , Philippe de Forcrand

In this paper, we introduce a dynamical Monte Carlo algorithm for spin models in which the number of the spins fluctuates from zero to a given number by addition and deletion of spins with a probabilistic rule. Such simulations are realized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukito Iba

We introduce a numerical algorithm to stochastically sample the dual fermion perturbation series around the dynamical mean field theory, generating all topologies of two-particle interaction vertices. We show results in the weak and strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-07 Sergei Iskakov , Andrey E. Antipov , Emanuel Gull