Cross-Industry Validation of a Scalable High-Dimensional Correlated Probability Solver

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Authors: Oguike Ahaneku
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Abstract

The exponential wall — the growth of correlated state spaces as 2^N with the number of variables N — is one of the most fundamental computational barriers in science. It is the reason exact correlated probability evaluation is intractable for large N in every established classical framework: Monte Carlo simulation, density functional theory, density matrix renormalisation group methods, and mean-field credit models all fail to produce results of any kind beyond N ≈ 50–100. This paper presents and validates the Correlated Ensemble Solver (CES), a computational framework that breaks through the exponential wall, delivering exact joint exceedance probabilities at N = 1,000 correlated variables, equivalent to a 20,000-qubit state space of 2^20,000 ≈ 10^6,021 basis states, in under one second on commodity hardware. The framework accepts a full N × N correlation matrix, a set of variable uncertainties, and a threshold condition as inputs, and returns an exact joint exceedance probability without reduction of the correlation structure to scalar parameters. Validation is conducted across six independent industries, derivatives pricing, credit risk, materials discovery, pharmaceutical binding affinity, portfolio optimisation, and catastrophe insurance, providing cross-domain consistency checks against independent ground truths from financial markets, laboratory experiment, and actuarial data. Benchmark deviations from ground truth estimates are below 2%. An independent four-oracle numerical validation at N = 1,000 confirms exactness to a maximum spread of 0.032% across all oracles and parameter configurations.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design Probability and Statistical Research Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
15 March 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint