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

Overcoming Topological Freezing with Multilevel Generative Plaquette Sampling

27 Jul 2026, 16:10
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

Ankur Singha (Technical University Berlin)

Description

We propose a multilevel generative sampling framework for lattice gauge theories designed to overcome topological freezing by explicitly sampling all relevant topological sectors. The target distribution is decomposed into coarse and fine scales using an RG-inspired blocking strategy. At each level, the generative sampler produces plaquette degrees of freedom and reconstructs consistent gauge-link configurations through gauge fixing. A mixture-model architecture, together with deterministic sector-changing transformations, enables efficient transitions between distinct winding-number sectors, avoiding the severe critical slowing down typically encountered in HMC. In numerical tests for the two-dimensional U(1) gauge theory, the method achieves good effective sample sizes covering all relevant topological sectors, and accurately reproduces the topological susceptibility.

Author

Ankur Singha (Technical University Berlin)

Co-authors

Prof. Karl Jansen (DESY, Zeuthen) Dr Jacob Kauffmann (BIFOLD and Technical University of Berlin) Dr Vipul Arora (KU Leuven, Belgium) Dr Shinichi Nakajima (BIFOLD, Technical University of Berlin and RIKEN (AIP)))

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