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We study the opportunities for parallelism for the simulation of surface reactions. We introduce the concept of a partition and we give new simulation methods based on Cellular Automaton using partitions. We elaborate on the advantages and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Nedea , J. J. Lukkien , A. P. J. Jansen , P. A. J. Hilbers

Autoregressive decoding limits the efficiency of transformers for Machine Translation (MT). The community proposed specific network architectures and learning-based methods to solve this issue, which are expensive and require changes to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Andrea Santilli , Silvio Severino , Emilian Postolache , Valentino Maiorca , Michele Mancusi , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodolà

We propose three semi-decoupled algorithms for efficiently solving a four-field thermoporoelastic model. The first two algorithms adopt a sequential strategy: at the initial time step, all variables are computed simultaneously using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ziliang Li , Mingchao Cai , Jingzhi Li , Qiang Liu

The tempered Lefschetz thimble method (TLTM) is a parallel-tempering algorithm towards solving the numerical sign problem, where the system is tempered by the antiholomorphic gradient flow to tame both the sign and ergodicity problems…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-14 Masafumi Fukuma , Nobuyuki Matsumoto , Naoya Umeda

Coupled cluster theory is a vital cornerstone of electronic structure theory and is being applied to ever-larger systems. Stochastic approaches to quantum chemistry have grown in importance and offer compelling advantages over traditional…

The computational study of conformational transitions in RNA and proteins with atomistic molecular dynamics often requires suitable enhanced sampling techniques. We here introduce a novel method where concurrent metadynamics are integrated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alejandro Gil-Ley , Giovanni Bussi

Bayesian inference is useful to obtain a predictive distribution with a small generalization error. However, since posterior distributions are rarely evaluated analytically, we employ the variational Bayesian inference or sampling method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yohei Saito , Shun Kimura , Koujin Takeda

An alternative to Monte Carlo techniques requiring large sampling times is presented here. Ideas from a genetic algorithm are used to select the best initial states from many independent, parallel Metropolis-Hastings iterations that are run…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-30 Thomas E. Baker

The study of the response of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) assemblies to an external alternating magnetic field is of great interest for applications such as hyperthermia. The key quantity here is the complex susceptibility and its behavior…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 A. Morjane , J. -G. Malherbe , J. -J. Alonso , F. Vernay , V. Russier

``Extended Ensemble Monte Carlo''is a generic term that indicates a set of algorithms which are now popular in a variety of fields in physics and statistical information processing. Exchange Monte Carlo (Metropolis-Coupled Chain, Parallel…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukito Iba

Simultaneous machine translation aims at solving the task of real-time translation by starting to translate before consuming the full input, which poses challenges in terms of balancing quality and latency of the translation. The wait-$k$…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Abderrahmane Issam , Yusuf Can Semerci , Jan Scholtes , Gerasimos Spanakis

We report an accessible and robust tool for evaluating the effects of Coulomb collisions on a test particle in a plasma that obeys Maxwell-J\"uttner statistics. The implementation is based on the Beliaev-Budker collision integral which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Konsta Särkimäki , Eero Hirvijoki , Juuso Terävä

Efficient sampling of many-dimensional and multimodal density functions is a task of great interest in many research fields. We describe an algorithm that allows parallelizing inherently serial Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling by…

Computation · Statistics 2020-08-10 Vasyl Hafych , Philipp Eller , Oliver Schulz , Allen Caldwell

Current trends in parallel processors call for the design of efficient massively parallel algorithms for scientific computing. Parallel algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic ensembles of particles have received little…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Joshua A. Anderson , Eric Jankowski , Thomas L. Grubb , Michael Engel , Sharon C. Glotzer

Smoothing filter is the method of choice for image preprocessing and pattern recognition. We present a new concurrent method for smoothing 2D object in binary case. Proposed method provides a parallel computation while preserving the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Ramzi Mahmoudi , Mohamed Akil

The Dirichlet process (DP) is a fundamental mathematical tool for Bayesian nonparametric modeling, and is widely used in tasks such as density estimation, natural language processing, and time series modeling. Although MCMC inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-04-09 Dan Lovell , Jonathan Malmaud , Ryan P. Adams , Vikash K. Mansinghka

We employ holographic techniques to study quantum quenches at finite temperature, where the quenches involve varying the coupling of the boundary theory to a relevant operator with an arbitrary conformal dimension $2\leq\D\leq4$. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Alex Buchel , Luis Lehner , Robert C. Myers , Anton van Niekerk

Solving multiscale diffusion problems is often computationally expensive due to the spatial and temporal discretization challenges arising from high-contrast coefficients. To address this issue, a partially explicit temporal splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Yating Wang , Zhengya Yang , Wing Tat Leung

We report on a study of the autocorrelation times of the local version of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (LHMC) algorithm for pure gauge $SU(3)$. We compare LHMC to standard multi-hit Metropolis and to the global version of the same HMC. For every…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Marenzoni , L. Pugnetti , P. Rossi

During the calibration phase of the photomultiplier tubes (PMT) for the Double Chooz experiment the PMT response to light with single photoelectron (SPE) intensity was analysed. With our setup we were able to measure the combined transit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-29 Florian Kaether , Conradin Langbrandtner