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Proteins are essential for maintaining life. For example, knowing the structure of a protein, cell regulatory mechanisms of organisms can be modeled, supporting the development of disease treatments or the understanding of relationships…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-07 Daniel Bonetti , Alexandre Delbem , Dorival Leão , Jochen Einbeck

Pathway idea is a switching mechanism by which one can go from one functional form to another, and to yet another. It is shown that through a parameter $\alpha$, called the pathway parameter, one can connect generalized type-1 beta family…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Nicy Sebastian , Dhannya P. Joseph , Seema S. Nair

While powerful for generation, Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) face slow sampling challenges, for which various distillation-based methods have been proposed. However, they typically require significant additional training costs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guangyi Wang , Wei Peng , Lijiang Li , Wenyu Chen , Yuren Cai , Songzhi Su

Assessing the similarity of matrices is valuable for analyzing the extent to which data sets exhibit common features in tasks such as data clustering, dimensionality reduction, pattern recognition, group comparison, and graph analysis.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-26 Jasper Albers , Anno C. Kurth , Robin Gutzen , Aitor Morales-Gregorio , Michael Denker , Sonja Grün , Sacha J. van Albada , Markus Diesmann

Decoding approaches are widely used in neuroscience and machine learning to compare stimulus representations across neural systems, such as different brain regions, organisms, and deep learning models. Popular methods include decoding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-08 Johannes Bertram , Luciano Dyballa , T. Anderson Keller , Savik Kinger , Steven W. Zucker

Quantifying the forces between and within macromolecules is a necessary first step in understanding the mechanics of molecular structure, protein folding, and enzyme function and performance. In such macromolecular settings, dynamic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-08-24 Joshua C. Chang , Pak-Wing Fok , Tom Chou

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a powerful method that can identify patterns in large, complex data sets by constructing low-dimensional order parameters from higher-dimensional feature vectors. There are increasing efforts to use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 C. J. O. Reichhardt , D. McDermott , C. Reichhardt

We present a novel algorithm (Principal Sensitivity Analysis; PSA) to analyze the knowledge of the classifier obtained from supervised machine learning techniques. In particular, we define principal sensitivity map (PSM) as the direction on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-22 Sotetsu Koyamada , Masanori Koyama , Ken Nakae , Shin Ishii

Symbolic data analysis (SDA) aggregates large individual-level datasets into a small number of distributional summaries, such as random rectangles or random histograms. The inference is carried out using these summaries in place of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-02 Yu Yang , Matias Quiroz , Boris Beranger , Robert Kohn , Scott A. Sisson

We present the design of a new large scale orchestration layer for accelerators. Our system, Pathways, is explicitly designed to enable exploration of new systems and ML research ideas, while retaining state of the art performance for…

Monitoring multichannel profiles has important applications in manufacturing systems improvement, but it is non-trivial to develop efficient statistical methods due to two main challenges. First, profiles are high-dimensional functional…

Applications · Statistics 2016-03-18 Yuan Wang , Kamran Paynabar , Yajun Mei

The folding dynamics of proteins at the single molecule level has been studied with single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) experiments for twenty years, but a common standardized method for the analysis of the collected data and for the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-28 Nicola Galvanetto , Andrea Perissinotto , Andrea Pedroni , Vincent Torre

Efficient execution of parameter sensitivity analysis (SA) is critical to allow for its routinely use. The pathology image processing application investigated in this work processes high-resolution whole-slide cancer tissue images from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Eduardo Scartezini , Willian Barreiros , Tahsin Kurc , Jun Kong , Alba C. M. A. Melo , Joel Saltz , George Teodoro

In this paper we extend the parametric sensitivity analysis (SA) methodology proposed in Ref. [Y. Pantazis and M. A. Katsoulakis, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 054115 (2013)] to continuous time and continuous space Markov processes represented by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Anastasios Tsourtis , Yannis Pantazis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Vagelis Harmandaris

We propose a learning-based method for light-path construction in path tracing algorithms, which iteratively optimizes and samples from what we refer to as spatio-directional Gaussian mixture models (SDMMs). In particular, we approximate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ana Dodik , Marios Papas , Cengiz Öztireli , Thomas Müller

Investigations of molecular bonds between single molecules and molecular complexes by the dynamic force spectroscopy are subject to large fluctuations at nanoscale and possible other aspecific binding, which mask the experimental output.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-14 Jelena Zivković , Marija Mitrović , Luuk Janssen , Hans A. Heus , Bosiljka Tadić , Sylvia Speller

Quantum many-body systems are characterized by patterns of correlations that define highly-non trivial manifolds when interpreted as data structures. Physical properties of phases and phase transitions are typically retrieved via simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 Tiago Mendes-Santos , Adriano Angelone , Alex Rodriguez , Rosario Fazio , Marcello Dalmonte

Factor analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) are used in many application areas. The first step, choosing the number of components, remains a serious challenge. Our work proposes improved methods for this important problem. One of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-17 Edgar Dobriban , Art B. Owen

Protein footprinting is a new methodology that is based on probing, typically with the use of mass spectrometry, of reactivity of different aminoacid residues to a modifying reagent. Data thus obtained allow one to make inferences about…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-12-21 Pasquale Moio , Arman Kulyyassov , Damien Vertut , Luc Camoin , Erlan Ramankulov , Marc Lipinski , Vasily Ogryzko

Principal skewness analysis (PSA) has been introduced for feature extraction in hyperspectral imagery. As a third-order generalization of principal component analysis (PCA), its solution of searching for the locally maximum skewness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Xiurui Geng , Lei Wang