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Self-organized monolayers of highly flexible \Frechet dendrons were deposited on graphite surfaces by solution casting. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) reveals an unprecedented variety of patterns with up to seven stable hierarchical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 B. A. Hermann , C. Rohr , M. Balbás Gambra , A. Malecki , M. S. Malarek , E. Frey , T. Franosch

We describe an embarrassingly parallel, anytime Monte Carlo method for likelihood-free models. The algorithm starts with the view that the stochasticity of the pseudo-samples generated by the simulator can be controlled externally by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Edward Meeds , Max Welling

State-of-the-art differentially private synthetic tabular data has been defined by adaptive 'select-measure-generate' frameworks, exemplified by methods like AIM. These approaches iteratively measure low-order noisy marginals and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Samuel Maddock , Shripad Gade , Graham Cormode , Will Bullock

Variational Monte Carlo is a many-body numerical method that scales well with system size. It has been extended to study the Green function only recently by Charlebois and Imada (2020). Here we generalize the approach to systems with open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 P. Rosenberg , D. Sénéchal , A. -M. S. Tremblay , M. Charlebois

Data-driven generative models excel in language and vision, but diffusion models often fail in constrained planning and design tasks, exhibiting severe constraint violations in engineering inverse design, molecular generation, multi-robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zirui Zhao , Boye Niu , Harold Soh , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee

Quantitative theory of interbilayer interactions is essential to interpret x-ray scattering data and to elucidate these interactions for biologically relevant systems. For this purpose Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to obtain…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nikolai Gouliaev , John F. Nagle

In this article we develop a multi-grid multi-level Monte Carlo (MGMLMC) method for the stochastic Stokes-Darcy interface model with random hydraulic conductivity both in the porous media domain and on the interface. Because the randomness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Zhipeng Yang , Xiaoming He , Li Zhang , Ju Ming

We introduce GRANIITTI, a new Monte Carlo event generator designed especially to solve the enigma of glueballs at the LHC. We discuss the available physics processes, compare the simulations against STAR data from RHIC and span ambitious…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Mikael Mieskolainen

Importance sampling is a rare event simulation technique used in Monte Carlo simulations to bias the sampling distribution towards the rare event of interest. By assigning appropriate weights to sampled points, importance sampling allows…

A boundary-based net-exchange Monte Carlo method was introduced in [1] that allows to bypass the difficulties encountered by standard Monte Carlo algorithms in the limit of optically thick absorption (and/or for quasi-isothermal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 V. Eymet , R. Fournier , S. Blanco , J. L. Dufresne

Group distributionally robust optimization (GDRO) aims to develop models that perform well across $m$ distributions simultaneously. Existing GDRO algorithms can only process a fixed number of samples per iteration, either 1 or $m$, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Haomin Bai , Dingzhi Yu , Shuai Li , Haipeng Luo , Lijun Zhang

We introduce a Monte Carlo integration-based Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) algorithm for electromagnetic scattering, specifically targeting complex dielectric materials. Unlike traditional deterministic SBR methods, our approach is the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samuel Audia , Dinesh Manocha , Matthias Zwicker

The self-learning Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a powerful Monte Carlo method that, with the help of machine learning, adaptively generates an easy-to-sample probability distribution for approximating a given hard-to-sample distribution.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Katsuhiro Endo , Taichi Nakamura , Keisuke Fujii , Naoki Yamamoto

The parameters in Monte Carlo (MC) event generators are tuned on experimental measurements by evaluating the goodness of fit between the data and the MC predictions. The relative importance of each measurement is adjusted manually in an…

Recent studies indicate that the denoising process in deep generative diffusion models implicitly learns and memorizes semantic information from the data distribution. These findings suggest that capturing more complex data distributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yi Tang , Peng Sun , Zhenglin Cheng , Tao Lin

We introduce FANG (Focused Angular $N$-body event Generator), a new Monte Carlo tool for efficient event generation in restricted Lorentz-Invariant Phase Space (LIPS). Unlike conventional approaches that sample the full $4\pi$ solid angle,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Itay Horin , Arik Kreisel , Or Alon

Flow-based generative models are composed of invertible transformations between two random variables of the same dimension. Therefore, flow-based models cannot be adequately trained if the dimension of the data distribution does not match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hyeongju Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Woo Hyun Kang , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim

We present a case-study on the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation of advanced Monte Carlo methods. Graphics cards, containing multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), are self-contained parallel…

Computation · Statistics 2015-05-05 Anthony Lee , Christopher Yau , Michael B. Giles , Arnaud Doucet , Christopher C. Holmes

We created an efficient algorithm suitable for graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform Monte Carlo simulations of a subset of reaction-diffusion models. The algorithm uses techniques that are specific to GPU programming, and combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 R. D. Schram

We investigate the properties of membranes under tension by Monte-Carlo simulations of a generic coarse-grained model for lipid bilayers. We give a comprising overview of the behavior of several membrane characteristics, such as the area…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Jörg Neder , Beate West , Peter Nielaba , Friederike Schmid