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We discuss the statistical analysis method for the worldvolume hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) algorithm [arXiv:2012.08468], which was recently introduced to substantially reduce the computational cost of the tempered Lefschetz thimble method.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-07-16 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Yusuke Namekawa

This paper surveys in detail the relations between numerical integration and the Hamiltonian (or hybrid) Monte Carlo method (HMC). Since the computational cost of HMC mainly lies in the numerical integrations, these should be performed as…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Jesús María Sanz-Serna

At low temperatures $T$ where $1/T=\beta\gg1$ the na\"ive implementation of determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) methods suffers from loss of precision and numerical instabilities when evaluating the fermion determinant. This instability…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer , Petar Sinilkov , Finn L. Temmen

Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) sampling can bring orders of magnitude reduction in variance compared to plain Monte Carlo (MC) sampling. The extent of the efficiency gain varies from problem to problem and can be hard to predict. This…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-26 Art B. Owen

State-of-the-art algorithms for simulating fermions coupled to gauge fields often rely on integrating fermion degrees of freedom. While successful in simulating QCD at zero chemical potential, at finite density these approaches are hindered…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-05 Joao C. Pinto Barros , Thea Budde , Marina Krstic Marinkovic

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

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is a prominent Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm, which employs symplectic integrators to sample from high dimensional target distributions in many applications, such as statistical mechanics, Bayesian statistics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Geoffrey McGregor , Andy T. S. Wan

We consider the Riemann manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) method for solving statistical inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). The power of the RMHMC method is that it exploits the geometric structure…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Tan Bui-Thanh , Mark Girolami

The Worldvolume Hybrid Monte Carlo (WV-HMC) method [arXiv:2012.08468] is a reliable and versatile algorithm for addressing the numerical sign problem. It resolves the ergodicity issues commonly encountered in Lefschetz thimble-based…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-31 Masafumi Fukuma

Generalized rules for building and flipping clusters in the quantum Monte Carlo loop algorithm are presented for the XXZ-model in a uniform magnetic field along the Z-axis. As is demonstrated for the Heisenberg antiferromagnet it is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Olav F. Syljuasen

We present a massively parallel quantum Monte Carlo based implementation of real-space dynamical mean-field theory for general inhomogeneous correlated fermionic lattice systems. As a first application, we study magnetic order in a binary…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-16 N. Blümer , E. V. Gorelik

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

We continue the investigation on the applications of the Kramers equation to the numerical simulation of field theoretic models. In a previous paper we have described the theory and proposed various algorithms. Here, we compare the simplest…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Matteo Beccaria , Giuseppe Curci , Luca Galli

We present a new lattice Monte Carlo approach developed for studying large numbers of strongly interacting nonrelativistic fermions, and apply it to a dilute gas of unitary fermions confined to a harmonic trap. Our lattice action is highly…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-04 Michael G. Endres , David B. Kaplan , Jong-Wan Lee , Amy N. Nicholson

The hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is used for Bayesian analysis of the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model. The HMC algorithm is one of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms and it updates all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-12-09 Tetsuya Takaishi

We report on simulations with two flavors of O(a) improved degenerate Wilson fermions with Schroedinger functional boundary conditions. The algorithm which is used is Hybrid Monte Carlo with two pseudo-fermion fields as proposed by M.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Della Morte , F. Knechtli , J. Rolf , R. Sommer , I. Wetzorke , U. Wolff

This technical report presents pseudo-code for a Riemannian manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) method to efficiently simulate samples from $N$-dimensional posterior distributions $p(x|y)$, where $x \in R^N$ is drawn from a Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Ulrich Paquet , Marco Fraccaro

We discuss our implementation of dynamical Ginsparg-Wilson type fermions using a stout-smeared chirally improved Dirac operator. Such operators have been studied extensively in quenched calculations within the Bern-Graz-Regensburg (BGR)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 C. B. Lang , Pushan Majumdar , Wolfgang Ortner

We study the performance of an automated hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) approach for conditional simulation of a recently proposed, single-parameter Gibbs Markov random field (Gibbs MRF). The MRF is based on a modified version of the planar…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Milan Žukovič , Dionissios T. Hristopulos

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a powerful Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for performing approximate inference in complex probabilistic models of continuous variables. In common with many MCMC methods, however, the standard HMC…

Computation · Statistics 2017-04-12 Matthew M. Graham , Amos J. Storkey