https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1912.03278/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300802urn:hackerpapers:mention:1912.03278:45300802Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:19:02 GMT<p>If you&#x27;re interested in HMC, we showed how to apply it to the Ising model in https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03278 with code available in https://github.com/HISKP-LQCD/ising_hmc</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1912.03278/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.comp-phhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871517urn:hackerpapers:mention:1912.03278:27871517Sun, 18 Jul 2021 08:17:51 GMT<p>Even though the Ising model is a model of discrete variables, it is still possible to apply HMC to perform global updates, as we explain in https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03278 However, without further improvement, HMC’s performance is similar to the ‘obvious’ algorithms and poor compared to the Swendsen-Wang or Wolff cluster algorithms or the worm algorithm of Prokof’ev and Svistunov near criticality.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1912.03278/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.comp-ph