26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

Solving sign problems with physics-informed kernels

30 Jul 2026, 14:00
20m
Benjamin Banneker B (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Benjamin Banneker B

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Algorithms and artificial intelligence Algorithms and artificial intelligence

Speaker

Renzo Kapust (Universität Heidelberg)

Description

In this talk we present a novel generative architecture for systems with complex probability distributions. In general, these sampling tasks come with two challenges: resolving sign problems and efficient sampling. The architecture is based on physics-informed kernels (PIKs) introduced in arXiv:2510.26678, and aims at resolving both challenges. Key to the complex PIK-architecture is its probability-weight preserving property, which allows us to map the sampling task to one on a sign-problem free manifold with a simple distribution and efficient sampling. The potential of this novel architecture is demonstrated within applications to zero-dimensional field theories with complex couplings, as well as the real-time evolution of the quantum-mechanical harmonic oscillator.

Authors

Dr Friederike Ihssen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Prof. Jan M. Pawlowski (Universität Heidelberg) Renzo Kapust (Universität Heidelberg)

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