Search Results for author: Sébastien Racanière

Found 21 papers, 7 papers with code

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

no code implementations19 Jan 2024 Ryan Abbott, Aleksandar Botev, Denis Boyda, Daniel C. Hackett, Gurtej Kanwar, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo J. Rezende, Fernando Romero-López, Phiala E. Shanahan, Julian M. Urban

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 parameters.

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

no code implementations3 Sep 2023 Kyle Cranmer, Gurtej Kanwar, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo J. Rezende, Phiala E. Shanahan

This Perspective outlines the advances in ML-based sampling motivated by lattice quantum field theory, in particular for the theory of quantum chromodynamics.

Audio Generation

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

no code implementations14 Nov 2022 Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Aleksandar Botev, Denis Boyda, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel C. Hackett, Alexander G. D. G. Matthews, Sébastien Racanière, Ali Razavi, Danilo J. Rezende, Fernando Romero-López, Phiala E. Shanahan, Julian M. Urban

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 freezing.

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

no code implementations18 Jul 2022 Ryan Abbott, Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel C. Hackett, Gurtej Kanwar, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo J. Rezende, Fernando Romero-López, Phiala E. Shanahan, Betsy Tian, Julian M. Urban

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

Symmetry-Based Representations for Artificial and Biological General Intelligence

no code implementations17 Mar 2022 Irina Higgins, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo Rezende

In this review article we are going to argue that symmetry transformations are a fundamental principle that can guide our search for what makes a good representation.

Representation Learning

Flow-based sampling in the lattice Schwinger model at criticality

no code implementations23 Feb 2022 Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel C. Hackett, Gurtej Kanwar, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo J. Rezende, Fernando Romero-López, Phiala E. Shanahan, Julian M. Urban

In this work, we provide a numerical demonstration of robust flow-based sampling in the Schwinger model at the critical value of the fermion mass.

Normalizing flows for atomic solids

1 code implementation16 Nov 2021 Peter Wirnsberger, George Papamakarios, Borja Ibarz, Sébastien Racanière, Andrew J. Ballard, Alexander Pritzel, Charles Blundell

We present a machine-learning approach, based on normalizing flows, for modelling atomic solids.

Implicit Riemannian Concave Potential Maps

no code implementations4 Oct 2021 Danilo J. Rezende, Sébastien Racanière

We are interested in the challenging problem of modelling densities on Riemannian manifolds with a known symmetry group using normalising flows.

Density Estimation Normalising Flows

Flow-based sampling for fermionic lattice field theories

no code implementations10 Jun 2021 Michael S. Albergo, Gurtej Kanwar, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo J. Rezende, Julian M. Urban, Denis Boyda, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel C. Hackett, Phiala E. Shanahan

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

Introduction to Normalizing Flows for Lattice Field Theory

no code implementations20 Jan 2021 Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda, Daniel C. Hackett, Gurtej Kanwar, Kyle Cranmer, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Phiala E. Shanahan

This notebook tutorial demonstrates a method for sampling Boltzmann distributions of lattice field theories using a class of machine learning models known as normalizing flows.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Sampling using $SU(N)$ gauge equivariant flows

no code implementations12 Aug 2020 Denis Boyda, Gurtej Kanwar, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Michael S. Albergo, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel C. Hackett, Phiala E. Shanahan

We develop a flow-based sampling algorithm for $SU(N)$ lattice gauge theories that is gauge-invariant by construction.

Disentangling by Subspace Diffusion

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 David Pfau, Irina Higgins, Aleksandar Botev, Sébastien Racanière

We present a novel nonparametric algorithm for symmetry-based disentangling of data manifolds, the Geometric Manifold Component Estimator (GEOMANCER).

Metric Learning Representation Learning

Equivariant flow-based sampling for lattice gauge theory

no code implementations13 Mar 2020 Gurtej Kanwar, Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel C. Hackett, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Phiala E. Shanahan

We define a class of machine-learned flow-based sampling algorithms for lattice gauge theories that are gauge-invariant by construction.

Targeted free energy estimation via learned mappings

no code implementations12 Feb 2020 Peter Wirnsberger, Andrew J. Ballard, George Papamakarios, Stuart Abercrombie, Sébastien Racanière, Alexander Pritzel, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Charles Blundell

Here, we cast Targeted FEP as a machine learning problem in which the mapping is parameterized as a neural network that is optimized so as to increase overlap.

Equivariant Hamiltonian Flows

no code implementations30 Sep 2019 Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Sébastien Racanière, Irina Higgins, Peter Toth

This paper introduces equivariant hamiltonian flows, a method for learning expressive densities that are invariant with respect to a known Lie-algebra of local symmetry transformations while providing an equivariant representation of the data.

Representation Learning

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