1–5 Dec 2025
ECT*
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Energy-based diffusion models for complex actions

3 Dec 2025, 09:00
40m
Aula Renzo Leonardi (ECT*)

Aula Renzo Leonardi

ECT*

Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)

Speaker

Gert Aarts (Swansea University and ECT*)

Description

Energy-based diffusion models can learn the unnormalised probability distribution from data. We apply this idea to a well-studied example in the context of lattice field theories with a sign problem, for which training data is generated using complex Langevin dynamics. We demonstrate that the learned distribution can subsequently be used to generate configurations using importance sampling. This final (i.e., after training) generative step therefore bypasses both complex Langevin and diffusion model dynamics.

Author

Gert Aarts (Swansea University and ECT*)

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