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Microcanonical thermostatistics analysis has become an important tool to reveal essential aspects of phase transitions in complex systems. An efficient way to estimate the microcanonical inverse temperature $\beta(E)$ and the microcanonical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Nelson A. Alves , Lucas D. Morero , Leandro G. Rizzi

Reconstructing the unknown spectrum of a given X-ray source is a common problem in a wide range of X-ray imaging tasks. For high-energy sources, transmission measurements are mostly used to recover the X-ray spectrum, as a solution to an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Arthur Walker , Alexandre Friou , Kevin Ginsburger

Current mathematical frameworks for predicting the flux state and macromolecular composition of the cell do not rely on thermodynamic constraints to determine the spontaneous direction of reactions. These predictions may be biologically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Amir Akbari , Bernhard O. Palsson

In this paper, a purely measurement-based method is proposed to estimate the dynamic system state matrix by applying the regression theorem of the multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The proposed method employs a recursive algorithm to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-29 Hao Sheng , Xiaozhe Wang

We propose a new method for implementing process tomography that is based on the information extracted from temporal correlations between observables, rather than on state preparation and state tomography. As such, the approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Ran Ber , Shmuel Marcovitch , Oded Kenneth , Benni Reznik

We present an accelerated algorithm that samples correctly the thermodynamic ensemble in complex systems where the dynamics is controlled by activation barriers. The efficiency of the thermodynamically-weighted activation-relaxation…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Normand Mousseau , G. T. Barkema

This paper suggests parametrically transformed nested error regression models (TNERM), which transform the data flexibly to follow the normal linear mixed regression. We provide a procedure for estimating consistently the parameters of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-14 Shonosuke Sugasawa , Tatsuya Kubokawa

Certain cancer types, notably pancreatic cancer, are difficult to detect at an early stage, motivating robust biomarker-based screening. Liquid biopsies enable non-invasive monitoring of circulating biomarkers, but typical machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Chongmin Lee , Jihie Kim

We have developed a new simulation algorithm for free-energy calculations. The method is a multidimensional extension of the replica-exchange method. While pairs of replicas with different temperatures are exchanged during the simulation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuji Sugita , Akio Kitao , Yuko Okamoto

With the traditional equilibrium molecular simulations, it is usually difficult to efficiently visit the whole conformational space in complex systems, which are separated into some metastable conformational regions by high free energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 Cheng Yang , Biao Wan , Shun Xu , Yanting Wang , Xin Zhou

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms can solve challenging control problems directly from image observations, but they often require millions of environment interactions to do so. Recently, model-based RL algorithms have greatly improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yifan Xu , Nicklas Hansen , Zirui Wang , Yung-Chieh Chan , Hao Su , Zhuowen Tu

We study the transition probabilities of a two-point measurement on a quantum system, initially prepared in a thermal state. We find two independent constraints on the difference between transition probabilities when the system is prepared…

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Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is one of the most popular approaches for evaluating and comparing the accuracy of medical diagnostic tests. Although various methodologies have been developed for estimating ROC curves and…

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The computational study of conformational transitions in RNA and proteins with atomistic molecular dynamics often requires suitable enhanced sampling techniques. We here introduce a novel method where concurrent metadynamics are integrated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alejandro Gil-Ley , Giovanni Bussi

As one of the most commonly seen data challenges, missing data, in particular, multiple, non-monotone missing patterns, complicates estimation and inference due to the fact that missingness mechanisms are often not missing at random, and…

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The simulated tempering (ST) is an important method to deal with systems whose phase spaces are hard to sample ergodically. However, it uses accepting probabilities weights which often demand involving and time consuming calculations. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Carlos E. Fiore , M. G. E. da Luz

Matrix element reweighting is a powerful experimental technique widely employed to maximize the amount of information that can be extracted from a collider data set. We present a procedure that allows to automatically evaluate the weights…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-02 P. Artoisenet , V. Lemaître , F. Maltoni , O. Mattelaer

Markov State Models (MSM) are widely used to elucidate dynamic properties of molecular systems from unbiased Molecular Dynamics (MD). However, the implementation of reweighting schemes for MSMs to analyze biased simulations, for example…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stefanie Kieninger , Luca Donati , Bettina G. Keller

Imbalance in covariate distributions leads to biased estimates of causal effects. Weighting methods attempt to correct this imbalance but rely on specifying models for the treatment assignment mechanism, which is unknown in observational…

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