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Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models often suffer from noisy training data, limiting their accuracy and transferability. We propose a method to generate low-noise training data based on the potential of mean force by constraining CG…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Zheyong Fan , Wenjun Zhang , Zhenhao Zhang , Ke Xu , Xuecheng Shao , Haikuan Dong

We discuss a Bayesian formulation to coarse-graining (CG) of PDEs where the coefficients (e.g. material parameters) exhibit random, fine scale variability. The direct solution to such problems requires grids that are small enough to resolve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Constantin Grigo , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

A hallmark of meso-scale interfacial fluids is the multi-faceted, scale-dependent interfacial energy, which often manifests different characteristics across the molecular and continuum scale. The multi-scale nature imposes a challenge to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Pei Ge , Linfeng Zhang , Huan Lei

This work presents a novel framework governing the development of an efficient, accurate, and transferable coarse-grained (CG) model of a polyether material. The proposed framework combines the two fundamentally different classical…

Compared to top-down coarse-grained (CG) models, bottom-up approaches are capable of offering higher structural fidelity. This fidelity results from the tight link to a higher-resolution reference, making the CG model chemically specific.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kiran H. Kanekal , Joseph F. Rudzinski , Tristan Bereau

Coarse-grained (CG) models are simplified representations of soft matter systems that are commonly employed to overcome size and time limitations in computational studies. Many approaches have been developed to construct and parametrise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-27 Piero Luchi , Roberto Menichetti , Gianluca Lattanzi , Raffaello Potestio

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics enables simulations of atomic systems such as biomolecules at timescales inaccessible to all-atom (AA) methods, but existing CG neural potentials trained via force matching capture only the gradient of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sanya Murdeshwar , Sanjit Shashi , Kevin Bachelor , William Noid , Ashwin Lokapally , Razvan Marinescu

Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood generative models with importance sampling, but practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Weilong Chen , Bojun Zhao , Jan Eckwert , Julija Zavadlav

The most popular and universally predictive protein simulation models employ all-atom molecular dynamics (MD), but they come at extreme computational cost. The development of a universal, computationally efficient coarse-grained (CG) model…

Multiscale molecular modeling is widely applied in scientific research of molecular properties over large time and length scales. Two specific challenges are commonly present in multiscale modeling, provided that information between the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Jun Zhang , Xiaohan Lin , Weinan E , Yi Qin Gao

Coarse-grained (CG) force field methods for molecular systems are a crucial tool to simulate large biological macromolecules and are therefore essential for characterisations of biomolecular systems. While state-of-the-art deep learning…

The data-based discovery of effective, coarse-grained (CG) models of high-dimensional dynamical systems presents a unique challenge in computational physics and particularly in the context of multiscale problems. The present paper offers a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

The large time and length scales and, not least, the vast number of particles involved in industrial-scale simulations inflate the computational costs of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) excessively. Coarse grain models can help to lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Daniel Queteschiner , Thomas Lichtenegger , Simon Schneiderbauer , Stefan Pirker

A general scheme, which includes constructions of coarse-grained (CG) models, weighted ensemble dynamics (WED) simulations and cluster analyses (CA) of stable states, is presented to detect dynamical and thermodynamical properties in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-04 Xin Zhou

Coarse-graining has become an area of tremendous importance within many different research fields. For molecular simulation, coarse-graining bears the promise of finding simplified models such that long-time simulations of large-scale…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Feliks Nüske , Lorenzo Boninsegna , Cecilia Clementi

The primary objective of this work is to develop coarse-graining schemes for stochastic many-body microscopic models and quantify their effectiveness in terms of a priori and a posteriori error analysis. In this paper we focus on stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plechac , Luc Rey-Bellet , Dimitrios K. Tsagkarogiannis

We present a systematic coarse-graining (CG) strategy for many particle molecular systems based on cluster expansion techniques. We construct a hierarchy of coarse-grained Hamiltonians with interaction potentials consisting of two, three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-11 Anastasios Tsourtis , Vagelis Harmandaris , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

Coarse-graining is a molecular modeling technique in which an atomistic system is represented in a simplified fashion that retains the most significant system features that contribute to a target output, while removing the degrees of…

Due to the wide range of timescales that are present in macromolecular systems, hierarchical multiscale strategies are necessary for their computational study. Coarse-graining (CG) allows to establish a link between different system…

Developing physics-based models for molecular simulation requires fitting many unknown parameters to diverse experimental datasets. Traditionally, this process is piecemeal and difficult to reproduce, leading to a fragmented landscape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryan K. Krueger , Megan C. Engel , Ryan Hausen , Michael P. Brenner