Advances in machine-learning-based sampling motivated by lattice quantum chromodynamics

K Cranmer, G Kanwar, S Racanière… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Sampling from known probability distributions is a ubiquitous task in computational science,
underlying calculations in domains from linguistics to biology and physics. Generative …

Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

K Zhou, L Wang, LG Pang, S Shi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel
problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly …

Applications of flow models to the generation of correlated lattice QCD ensembles

R Abbott, A Botev, D Boyda, DC Hackett, G Kanwar… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Machine-learned normalizing flows can be used in the context of lattice quantum field theory
to generate statistically correlated ensembles of lattice gauge fields at different action …

Bootstrability in line-defect CFTs with improved truncation methods

V Niarchos, C Papageorgakis, P Richmond… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the conformal bootstrap of 1D CFTs on the straight Maldacena–Wilson line in 4D
N= 4 super-Yang–Mills theory. We introduce an improved truncation scheme with an “OPE …

Learning trivializing gradient flows for lattice gauge theories

S Bacchio, P Kessel, S Schaefer, L Vaitl - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We propose a unifying approach that starts from the perturbative construction of trivializing
maps by Lüscher and then improves on it by learning. The resulting continuous normalizing …

Neural network field theories: non-Gaussianity, actions, and locality

M Demirtas, J Halverson, A Maiti… - Machine Learning …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Both the path integral measure in field theory (FT) and ensembles of neural networks (NN)
describe distributions over functions. When the central limit theorem can be applied in the …

Aspects of scaling and scalability for flow-based sampling of lattice QCD

R Abbott, MS Albergo, A Botev, D Boyda… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Recent applications of machine-learned normalizing flows to sampling in lattice field theory
suggest that such methods may be able to mitigate critical slowing down and topological …

Machine learning a fixed point action for SU (3) gauge theory with a gauge equivariant convolutional neural network

K Holland, A Ipp, DI Müller, U Wenger - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Fixed point lattice actions are designed to have continuum classical properties unaffected by
discretization effects and reduced lattice artifacts at the quantum level. They provide a …

Diffusion models as stochastic quantization in lattice field theory

L Wang, G Aarts, K Zhou - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract In this work, we establish a direct connection between generative diffusion models
(DMs) and stochastic quantization (SQ). The DM is realized by approximating the reversal of …

Roadmap on machine learning glassy liquids

G Jung, RM Alkemade, V Bapst, D Coslovich… - arXiv e …, 2023 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Unraveling the connections between microscopic structure, emergent physical properties,
and slow dynamics has long been a challenge in the field of the glass transition. The …