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Tensor factorizations with nonnegative constraints have found application in analyzing data from cyber traffic, social networks, and other areas. We consider application data best described as being generated by a Poisson process (e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Samantha Hansen , Todd Plantenga , Tamara G. Kolda

Adaptive sampling algorithms are modern and efficient methods that dynamically adjust the sample size throughout the optimization process. However, they may encounter difficulties in risk-averse settings, particularly due to the challenge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Sandra Pieraccini , Tommaso Vanzan

In the context of the recently developed "equation-free" approach to the computer-assisted analysis of complex systems, we illustrate the computation of coarsely self-similar solutions. Dynamic renormalization and fixed point algorithms for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chen , P. G. Debenedetti , C. W. Gear , I. G. Kevrekidis

The equilibrium free energy landscape of off-lattice model heteropolymers as a function of an internal coordinate, namely the end-to-end distance, is reconstructed from out-of-equilibrium steered molecular dynamics data. This task is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-17 Stefano Luccioli , Alberto Imparato , Alessandro Torcini

We present a method to obtain numerically accurate values of configurational free energies of semiflexible macromolecular systems, based on the technique of thermodynamic integration combined with normal-mode analysis of a reference system…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-17 Stefan M. Giovan , Robert G. Scharein , Andreas Hanke , Stephen D. Levene

Alchemical free energy calculations are a useful tool for predicting free energy differences associated with the transfer of molecules from one environment to another. The hallmark of these methods is the use of "bridging" potential energy…

We develop a rigorous error analysis for coarse-graining of defect-formation free energy. For a one-dimensional constrained atomistic system, we establish the thermodynamic limit of the defect-formation free energy and obtain explicitly the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Matthew Dobson , Manh Hong Duong , Christoph Ortner

We propose a simple scheme to estimate potential energy surface (PES) with which the accuracy can be easily controlled and improved up to the level of the density functional theory (DFT) calculations. It is based on a model selection within…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-11 Atsuto Seko , Akira Takahashi , Isao Tanaka

Accelerated algorithms for maximum likelihood image reconstruction are essential for emerging applications such as 3D tomography, dynamic tomographic imaging, and other high dimensional inverse problems. In this paper, we introduce and…

Computation · Statistics 2012-01-31 Stéphane Chrétien , Alfred O. Hero

We consider the statistical mechanics of a classical particle in a one-dimensional box subjected to a random potential which constitutes a Wiener process on the coordinate axis. The distribution of the free energy and all correlation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kurt Broderix , Reiner Kree

A variety of methods are developed for characterising the free energy landscapes of continuum, Landau-type free energy models. Using morphologies of lipid vesicles and a multistable liquid crystal device as examples, I show that the methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Halim Kusumaatmaja

Sampling the free energy surface, namely, the distribution of collective variables (CVs), is a crucial problem in statistical physics, as it underpins a better understanding of chemical reactions and conformational transitions. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zichen Liu , Tiejun Li

Biased sampling in molecular dynamics simulations overcomes timescale limitations and delivers free-energy landscapes, essential to understand complex atomistic phenomena. However, when applied across diverse systems and processes, biasing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 Eline K. Kempkes , Alberto Pérez de Alba Ortíz

Computing free energy is a fundamental problem in statistical physics. Recently, two distinct methods have been developed and have demonstrated remarkable success: the tensor-network-based contraction method and the neural-network-based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Hanyan Cao , Yijia Wang , Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

Free energy perturbation (FEP) was proposed by Zwanzig more than six decades ago as a method to estimate free energy differences, and has since inspired a huge body of related methods that use it as an integral building block. Being an…

We consider the thermodynamics of chemical coupling from the viewpoint of free energy transduction efficiency. In contrast to an external parameter-driven stochastic energetics setup, the dynamic change of the equilibrium distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Kyogo Kawaguchi , Masaki Sano

In this paper, a novel method to adaptively approximate the solution to stochastic differential equations, which is based on compressive sampling and sparse recovery, is introduced. The proposed method consider the problem of sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Behrooz Azarkhalili

We derive the bias function that minimizes the statistical error of free energy differences calculated in work-biased fast-switching simulations. The optimum bias function is compared to other bias functions using a particle pulled through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Harald Oberhofer , Christoph Dellago

We present a technique for constructing random fields from a set of training samples. The learning paradigm builds increasingly complex fields by allowing potential functions, or features, that are supported by increasingly large subgraphs.…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 S. Della Pietra , V. Della Pietra , J. Lafferty

Using molecular simulation, we determine Ginzburg-Landau free energy functions for molecular fluids. To this aim, we extend the Expanded Wang-Landau method to calculate the partition functions, number distributions and Landau free energies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-19 Caroline Desgranges , Jerome Delhommelle