Data Free Training of Diffusion Models for Lattice Field Theories
Addresses fundamental sampling bottlenecks in computational physics with novel ML training approaches
AI Summary
Researchers developed a data-free method for diffusion models in lattice field theories using self-generated samples and target score identities.
Excerpt
Sampling equilibrium field configurations remains a major computational bottleneck in lattice field theory, motivating the development of generative samplers that can produce independent configurations. Diffusion models are promising for this purpose, but their standard denoising score matching objective requires samples from the target distribution, seemingly reintroducing the original sampling problem. Here, we show that diffusion models can instead be trained from their own generated samples
