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Metadynamics is a powerful method to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations, but its efficiency critically depends on the identification of collective variables that capture the slow modes of the process. Unfortunately, collective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg

We describe a method to explore the configurational phase space of chemical systems. It is based on the nested sampling algorithm recently proposed by Skilling [Skilling J. (2004) In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 735, p. 395.; Skilling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-08 Livia B. Pártay , Albert P. Bartók , Gábor Csányi

Computing accurate reaction rates is a central challenge in computational chemistry and biology because of the high cost of free energy estimation with unbiased molecular dynamics. In this work, a data-driven machine learning algorithm is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Lixin Sun , Jonathan Vandermause , Simon Batzner , Yu Xie , David Clark , Wei Chen , Boris Kozinsky

Transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is among the most common ultrafast photochemical experiments, but its interpretation remains challenging. In this work, we present an efficient and robust method for simulating TAS signals from first…

Making material experiments more efficient is a high priority for materials scientists who seek to discover new materials with desirable properties. In this paper, we investigate how to optimize the laborious sequential measurements of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-24 Takuya Kanazawa , Akinori Asahara , Hidekazu Morita

Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS) has emerged as a versatile and reliable diagnostic tool for measuring temperature, pressure, gas composition, and velocity in power generation and propulsion systems. This paper provides a…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-23 Jose Guerrero , Mirko Gamba

Recent advancements in Artificial Neural Networks have significantly improved human activity recognition using multiple time-series sensors. While employing numerous sensors with high-frequency sampling rates usually improves the results,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Mengxi Liu , Zimin Zhao , Daniel Geißler , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Designing an appropriate set of collective variables is crucial to the success of several enhanced sampling methods. Here we focus on how to obtain such variables from information limited to the metastable states. We characterize these…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Luigi Bonati , Valerio Rizzi , Michele Parrinello

The phenomenon of solidification of a substance from its liquid phase is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance, and atomistic simulations can provide precious information towards its understanding and control. Unfortunately,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-25 Tarak Karmakar , Michele Invernizzi , Valerio Rizzi , Michele Parrinello

In this work, we present Enhanced Representation-Based Sampling (ERBS), a novel enhanced sampling method designed to generate structurally diverse training datasets for machine-learned interatomic potentials. ERBS automatically identifies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Moritz René Schäfer , Johannes Kästner

Flow and diffusion models achieve high-fidelity, high-resolution image synthesis, but often require many function evaluations (NFEs) at sampling time. Existing acceleration methods either require additional training through distillation or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Anuska Roy , Pravin Nair

We propose a method for efficient simulations in extended ensembles, useful, e.g., for the study of problems with complex energy landscapes and for free energy calculations. The main difficulty in such simulations is the estimation of the a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-29 Jack Lidmar

Meta-learning algorithms for active learning are emerging as a promising paradigm for learning the ``best'' active learning strategy. However, current learning-based active learning approaches still require sufficient training data so as to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jingyu Shao , Qing Wang , Fangbing Liu

Active search refers to the problem of efficiently locating targets in an unknown environment by actively making data-collection decisions, and has many applications including detecting gas leaks, radiation sources or human survivors of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Ramina Ghods , Arundhati Banerjee , Jeff Schneider

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

In this paper we combine the Alias method with the concept of systematic sampling, a method commonly used in particle filters for efficient low-variance resampling. The proposed method allows very fast sampling from a discrete distribution:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ilari Vallivaara , Katja Poikselkä , Pauli Rikula , Juha Röning

A family of fast sampling methods is introduced here for molecular simulations of systems having rugged free energy landscapes. The methods represent a generalization of a strategy consisting of adjusting a model for the free energy as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Pablo F. Zubieta Rico , Juan J. de Pablo

The maximum likelihood estimation is computationally demanding for large datasets, particularly when the likelihood function includes integrals. Subsampling can reduce the computational burden, but it often results in efficiency loss.This…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-27 Miaomiao Su , Qihua Wang , Ruoyu Wang

The equations of the temperature-accelerated molecular dynamics (TAMD) method for the calculations of free energies and partition functions are analyzed. Specifically, the exponential convergence of the law of these stochastic processes is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Gabriel Stoltz , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Atomistic modelling of phase transitions, chemical reactions, or other rare events that involve overcoming high free energy barriers usually entails prohibitively long simulation times. Introducing a bias potential as a function of an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Federico Giberti , Bingqing Cheng , Gareth Aneurin Tribello , Michele Ceriotti