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Inductive Domain Transfer In Misspecified Simulation-Based Inference
Ortal Senouf, Antoine Wehenkel, C\'edric Vincent-Cuaz, Emmanuel Abb\'e, Pascal Frossard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15593

Inductive Domain Transfer In Misspecified Simulation-Based Inference
Simulation-based inference (SBI) is a statistical inference approach for estimating latent parameters of a physical system when the likelihood is intractable but simulations are available. In practice, SBI is often hindered by model misspecification--the mismatch between simulated and real-world observations caused by inherent modeling simplifications. RoPE, a recent SBI approach, addresses this challenge through a two-stage domain transfer process that combines semi-supervised calibration with…

Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-simulating-unthinkable-nuclear-winter-food.html

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Distributed Shared Layered Storage Quantum Simulator: A novel quantum simulation system for efficient scaling and cost optimization
Mingyang Yu, Haorui Yang, Donglin Wang, Desheng Kong, Ji Du, Yulong Fu, Wei Wang, Jing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15542

Distributed Shared Layered Storage Quantum Simulator: A novel quantum simulation system for efficient scaling and cost optimization
Quantum simulators are essential tools for developing and testing quantum algorithms. However, the high-frequency traversal characteristic of quantum simulators represents an unprecedented demand in the history of IT, and existing distributed technologies is unable to meet this requirement, resulting in a single-node bottleneck of quantum simulator. To overcome this limitation, this paper introduces a novel Distributed Shared Layered Storage Quantum Simulator (DSLSQS). By leveraging an innovati…

Evaluating classical simulations with a quantum processor
Alberto Nocera, Jack Raymond, William Bernoudy, Mohammad H. Amin, Andrew D. King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15759 https…

Evaluating classical simulations with a quantum processor
As simulations of quantum systems cross the limits of classical computability, both quantum and classical approaches become hard to verify. Scaling predictions are therefore based on local structure and asymptotic assumptions, typically with classical methods being used to evaluate quantum simulators where possible. Here, in contrast, we use a quantum annealing processor to produce a ground truth for evaluating classical tensor-network methods whose scaling has not yet been firmly established. …

A Study of Teleoperation Methods in a Simulated Virtual Eye Surgery Environment
Haoran Wang, Yasamin Foroutani, Matthew Nepo, Mercedes Rodriguez, Ji Ma, Jean-Pierre Hubschman, Tsu-Chin Tsao, Jacob Rosen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13654

A Study of Teleoperation Methods in a Simulated Virtual Eye Surgery Environment
This paper examines the performance of Inside and Outside Control modes at various scaling factors in a simulated vitreoretinal surgical setting. The IRISS teleoperated surgical system's console (cockpit) was adapted to project a simulated microscope view of an intraocular setup to a virtual reality (VR) headset. Five experienced vitreoretinal surgeons and five engineers with no surgical experience used the system to perform tasks common to vitreoretinal surgery. Experimental results indicate t…

PHASE: Passive Human Activity Simulation Evaluation
Steven Lamp, Jason D. Hiser, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jack W. Davidson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13505 https:…

PHASE: Passive Human Activity Simulation Evaluation
Cybersecurity simulation environments, such as cyber ranges, honeypots, and sandboxes, require realistic human behavior to be effective, yet no quantitative method exists to assess the behavioral fidelity of synthetic user personas. This paper presents PHASE (Passive Human Activity Simulation Evaluation), a machine learning framework that analyzes Zeek connection logs and distinguishes human from non-human activity with over 90\% accuracy. PHASE operates entirely passively, relying on standard …

Characterizing p-Simulation Between Theories
Hunter Monroe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13576 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13576

Characterizing p-Simulation Between Theories
This paper characterizes when one axiomatic theory, as a proof system for tautologies, $p$-simulates another, by showing: (i)~if c.e. theory $\mathcal{S}$ efficiently interprets $\mathcal{S}{+}ϕ$, then $\mathcal{S}$ $p$-simulates $\mathcal{S}{+}ϕ$ (Jeřábek in Pudlák17 proved simulation), since the interpretation maps an $\mathcal{S}{+}ϕ$-proof whose lines are all theorems into an $\mathcal{S}$-proof; (ii)~$\mathcal{S}$ proves ``$\mathcal{S}$ efficiently interprets $\mathcal{S}{+}ϕ$'' iff…

Exploring near critical lattice gauge simulators with Rydberg atoms facilities
Avi Kaufman, James Corona, Zane Ozzello, Blake Senseman, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Yannick Meurice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14128

Exploring near critical lattice gauge simulators with Rydberg atoms facilities
We motivate the use of a ladder of Rydberg atoms as an analog simulator for a lattice gauge theory version of scalar electrodynamics also called the compact Abelian Higgs model. We demonstrate that by using a few thousand shots from a single copy of the ladder simulator it is possible to estimate the bipartite quantum von Neumann entanglement entropy $S^{vN}_A$. The estimation relies on an optimized filtration of the mutual information associated with the bitstrings obtained from public facilit…