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# Introduction to Normalizing Flows for Lattice Field Theory

@article{Albergo2021IntroductionTN,
title={Introduction to Normalizing Flows for Lattice Field Theory},
author={M. S. Albergo and Denis Boyda and Daniel C. Hackett and Gurtej Kanwar and Kyle Cranmer and S{\'e}bastien Racani{\e}re and Danilo Jimenez Rezende and Phiala Shanahan},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2101.08176}
}`
Michael S. Albergo, ∗ Denis Boyda, 3, 4, † Daniel C. Hackett, 4, ‡ Gurtej Kanwar, 4, § Kyle Cranmer, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, and Phiala E. Shanahan 4 Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont IL 60439, USA Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and… Expand
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