activity
20182026
most citedReconstructing QCD Spectral Functions with Gaussian Processes

75 citations · 460 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

20 papers

hep-lat2026

Variance reduction in lattice QCD observables via normalizing flows

Ryan Abbott, Denis Boyda, Yang Fu +5

Normalizing flows can be used to construct unbiased, reduced-variance estimators for lattice field theory observables that are defined by a derivative with respect to action parame…

hep-lat2025

Progress in Normalizing Flows for 4d Gauge Theories

Ryan Abbott, Denis Boyda, Daniel C. Hackett +4

Normalizing flows have arisen as a tool to accelerate Monte Carlo sampling for lattice field theories. This work reviews recent progress in applying normalizing flows to 4-dimensio…

hep-lat2024★ 1 cited

Topological data analysis of the deconfinement transition in SU(3) lattice gauge theory

Daniel Spitz, Julian M. Urban, Jan M. Pawlowski

We study the confining and deconfining phases of pure lattice gauge theory with topological data analysis. This provides unique insights into long range correlatio…

hep-lat2024

Practical applications of machine-learned flows on gauge fields

Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda +5

Normalizing flows are machine-learned maps between different lattice theories which can be used as components in exact sampling and inference schemes. Ongoing work yields increasin…

hep-lat2024

Multiscale Normalizing Flows for Gauge Theories

Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda +5

Scale separation is an important physical principle that has previously enabled algorithmic advances such as multigrid solvers. Previous work on normalizing flows has been able to…

hep-lat2024

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

Ryan Abbott, Aleksandar Botev, Denis Boyda +7

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 act…

hep-lat2023★ 10 cited

Normalizing flows for lattice gauge theory in arbitrary space-time dimension

Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Aleksandar Botev +11

Applications of normalizing flows to the sampling of field configurations in lattice gauge theory have so far been explored almost exclusively in two space-time dimensions. We repo…

hep-ph2023★ 23 cited

Non-perturbative strong coupling at timelike momenta

Jan Horak, Jan M. Pawlowski, Jonas Turnwald +3

We compute the strong coupling constant of Landau gauge QCD in the full complex momentum plane, both directly and via spectral reconstruction. In particular, we consider the Taylor…

hep-ph2022★ 19 cited

Yang-Mills glueball masses from spectral reconstruction

Jan M. Pawlowski, Coralie S. Schneider, Jonas Turnwald +2

We compute masses of the two lightest glueballs from spectral reconstructions of timelike interaction channels of the four-gluon vertex in Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory. The Eucli…

hep-lat2022★ 5 cited

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

Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Aleksandar Botev +10

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…

hep-lat2022★ 7 cited

Sampling QCD field configurations with gauge-equivariant flow models

Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Aleksandar Botev +11

Machine learning methods based on normalizing flows have been shown to address important challenges, such as critical slowing-down and topological freezing, in the sampling of gaug…

hep-lat2022★ 11 cited

Confinement in non-Abelian lattice gauge theory via persistent homology

Daniel Spitz, Julian M. Urban, Jan M. Pawlowski

We investigate the structure of confining and deconfining phases in SU(2) lattice gauge theory via persistent homology, which gives us access to the topology of a hierarchy of comb…

hep-lat2022★ 48 cited

Gauge-equivariant flow models for sampling in lattice field theories with pseudofermions

Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda +9

This work presents gauge-equivariant architectures for flow-based sampling in fermionic lattice field theories using pseudofermions as stochastic estimators for the fermionic deter…

hep-lat2022★ 17 cited

Flow-based density of states for complex actions

Jan M. Pawlowski, Julian M. Urban

Emerging sampling algorithms based on normalizing flows have the potential to solve ergodicity problems in lattice calculations. Furthermore, it has been noted that flows can be us…

hep-lat2022★ 38 cited

Flow-based sampling in the lattice Schwinger model at criticality

Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda, Kyle Cranmer +7

Recent results suggest that flow-based algorithms may provide efficient sampling of field distributions for lattice field theory applications, such as studies of quantum chromodyna…

hep-ph2021★ 75 cited

Reconstructing QCD Spectral Functions with Gaussian Processes

Jan Horak, Jan M. Pawlowski, José Rodríguez-Quintero +4

We reconstruct ghost and gluon spectral functions in 2+1 flavor QCD with Gaussian process regression. This framework allows us to largely suppress spurious oscillations and other c…

hep-lat2021★ 54 cited

Flow-based sampling for fermionic lattice field theories

Michael S. Albergo, Gurtej Kanwar, Sébastien Racanière +6

Algorithms based on normalizing flows are emerging as promising machine learning approaches to sampling complicated probability distributions in a way that can be made asymptotical…

hep-lat2020★ 45 cited

Towards Novel Insights in Lattice Field Theory with Explainable Machine Learning

Stefan Bluecher, Lukas Kades, Jan M. Pawlowski +2

Machine learning has the potential to aid our understanding of phase structures in lattice quantum field theories through the statistical analysis of Monte Carlo samples. Available…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 71 cited

Spectral Reconstruction with Deep Neural Networks

Lukas Kades, Jan M. Pawlowski, Alexander Rothkopf +5

We explore artificial neural networks as a tool for the reconstruction of spectral functions from imaginary time Green's functions, a classic ill-conditioned inverse problem. Our a…

hep-lat2018★ 36 cited

Reducing Autocorrelation Times in Lattice Simulations with Generative Adversarial Networks

Jan M. Pawlowski, Julian M. Urban

Short autocorrelation times are essential for a reliable error assessment in Monte Carlo simulations of lattice systems. In many interesting scenarios, the decay of autocorrelation…