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Unbiased Monte Carlo cluster updates with autoregressive neural networks

Wu, Dian  
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Rossi, Riccardo  
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Carleo, Giuseppe  
November 10, 2021
Physical Review Research

Efficient sampling of complex high-dimensional probability distributions is a central task in computational science. Machine learning methods like autoregressive neural networks, used with Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, provide good approximations to such distributions but suffer from either intrinsic bias or high variance. In this Letter, we propose a way to make this approximation unbiased and with low variance. Our method uses physical symmetries and variable-size cluster updates which utilize the structure of autoregressive factorization. We test our method for first- and second-order phase transitions of classical spin systems, showing its viability for critical systems and in the presence of metastable states.

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research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L042024
Web of Science ID

WOS:000719163400001

Author(s)
Wu, Dian  
Rossi, Riccardo  
Carleo, Giuseppe  
Date Issued

2021-11-10

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review Research
Volume

3

Issue

4

Article Number

L042024

Subjects

Physics, Multidisciplinary

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Physics

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