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Replica exchange (REX) is one of the most widely used enhanced sampling methodologies, yet its efficiency is limited by the requirement for a large number of intermediate temperature replicas. Here we present Generative Replica Exchange…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-20 Shengjie Huang , Sijie Yang , Jianqiao Yi , Rui Zheng , Haocong Liao , Muzammal Hussain , Yaoquan Tu , Xiaoyun Lu , Yang Zhou

We recently introduced a novel replica-exchange scheme in which an individual replica can sample from states encountered by other replicas at any previous time by way of a global configuration database, enabling the fast propagation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Thomas Vogel , Danny Perez

In a recent article (J. Comput. Chem. 2013, 34, 132-140), convective Replica-Exchange (convective-RE) has been presented as an alternative to the standard even-odd transition scheme. Computations on systems of various complexity have shown…

We propose a new implementation of the replica-exchange method (REM) in which replicas follow a pre-planned route in temperature space instead of a random walk. Our method satisfies the detailed balance condition in the proposed route. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-22 Ryo Urano , Yuko Okamoto

The replica exchange method is a powerful tool for overcoming slow relaxation in molecular simulations, but its efficiency depends strongly on the choice of the number and interval of replicas and their exchange probabilities. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-04 Akie Kowaguchi , Katsuhiro Endo , Kentaro Nomura , Shuichi Kurabayashi , Paul E. Brumby , Kenji Yasuoka

We study the dynamics of parallel tempering simulations, also known as the replica exchange technique, which has become the method of choice for simulation of proteins and other complex systems. Recent results for the optimal choice of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Walter Nadler , Ulrich H. E. Hansmann

Replica Exchange (RE) simulations have emerged as an important algorithmic tool for the molecular sciences. RE simulations involve the concurrent execution of independent simulations which infrequently interact and exchange information. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Antons Treikalis , Andre Merzky , Haoyuan Chen , Tai-Sung Lee , Darrin M. York , Shantenu Jha

By combining two generalized-ensemble algorithms, Replica-Exchange Wang-Landau (REWL) method and Multicanonical Replica-Exchange Method (MUCAREM), we propose an effective simulation protocol to determine the density of states with high…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Takuya Hayashi , Yuko Okamoto

In statistical physics, the efficiency of tempering approaches strongly depends on ingredients such as the number of replicas $R$, reliable determination of weight factors and the set of used temperatures, ${\mathcal T}_R = \{T_1, T_2,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-01 A. Valentim , M. G. E. da Luz , Carlos E. Fiore

Nested sampling (NS) has emerged as a powerful tool for exploring thermodynamic properties in materials science. However, its efficiency is often hindered by the limitations of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. In strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-31 Nico Unglert , Livia Bartók Pártay , Georg K. H. Madsen

Inference-time control of diffusion models aims to steer model outputs to satisfy new constraints without retraining. Previous approaches have mostly relied on heuristic guidance or have been coupled with Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) for…

Efficient computational methods that are capable of supporting experimental measures obtained at constant values of pH and redox potential are important tools as they serve to, among other things, provide additional atomic level information…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Vinícius Wilian D. Cruzeiro , Adrian E. Roitberg

Path sampling approaches have become invaluable tools to explore the mechanisms and dynamics of so-called rare events that are characterized by transitions between metastable states separated by sizeable free energy barriers. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-08 Steven W. Hall , Grisell Díaz Leines , Sapna Sarupria , Jutta Rogal

We propose a class of subspace ascent methods for computing optimal approximate designs that covers both existing as well as new and more efficient algorithms. Within this class of methods, we construct a simple, randomized exchange…

Computation · Statistics 2018-01-18 Radoslav Harman , Lenka Filová , Peter Richtárik

We introduce a generic, parallel Wang-Landau method that is naturally suited to implementation on massively parallel, petaflop supercomputers. The approach introduces a replica-exchange framework in which densities of states for overlapping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ying Wai Li , Thomas Vogel , Thomas Wüst , David P. Landau

The goal of this study is to introduce a unified computational framework for simulating random iteration equations (RIE), understood as iteration equations containing random variables. The novelty of this work is that full probability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Wolfgang Hoegele

Replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) becomes more efficient as the frequency of swap between the temperatures is increased. Recently in [Plattner et al, J. Chem. Phys. 135, 134111 (2011)] a method was proposed to implement infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jianfeng Lu , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Transition interface sampling (TIS) and replica exchange TIS (RETIS) are powerful methods for computing rates of rare events inaccessible to straightforward molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Path reweighting extends their output,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Titus S. van Erp , Daniel T. Zhang , Elias Wils , Sina Safaei , An Ghysels

We considered a higher-dimensional extension for the replica-exchange Wang-Landau algorithm to perform a random walk in the energy and magnetization space of the two-dimensional Ising model. This hybrid scheme combines the advantages of…

We combine replica exchange (parallel tempering) with normalizing flows, a class of deep generative models. These two sampling strategies complement each other, resulting in an efficient strategy for sampling molecular systems characterized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Michele Invernizzi , Andreas Krämer , Cecilia Clementi , Frank Noé
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