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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a widely used technique to simulate molecular systems, most commonly at the all-atom resolution where equations of motion are integrated with timesteps on the order of femtoseconds…

In adaptive-bias enhanced sampling methods, a bias potential is added to the system to drive transitions between metastable states. The bias potential is a function of a few collective variables and is gradually modified according to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

Sampling from high-dimensional probability distributions is fundamental in machine learning and statistics. As datasets grow larger, computational efficiency becomes increasingly important, particularly in reducing adaptive complexity,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Huanjian Zhou , Masashi Sugiyama

We introduce Adjoint Sampling, a highly scalable and efficient algorithm for learning diffusion processes that sample from unnormalized densities, or energy functions. It is the first on-policy approach that allows significantly more…

Understanding protein conformational dynamics is essential for elucidating biological function but remains challenging due to the wide range of timescales and the complexity of collective motions. Enhanced sampling methods overcome…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Souvik Mondal , Michael A. Sauer , Matthias Heyden

Computer simulation is an important tool for scientific progress, especially when lab experiments are either extremely costly and difficult or lack the required resolution. However, all of the simulation methods come with limitations. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-04 Edward R. Smith , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

The objective of Continual Test-time Domain Adaptation (CTDA) is to gradually adapt a pre-trained model to a sequence of target domains without accessing the source data. This paper proposes a Dynamic Sample Selection (DSS) method for CTDA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yanshuo Wang , Jie Hong , Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

Biased sampling methods such as the Temperature Accelerated Sliced Sampling (TASS), which can explore high dimensional collective variable (CV) space, is of great interest in free energy calculations. Such methods can efficiently sample…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Abhinav Gupta , Shivani Verma , Nisanth N. Nair

High-dimensional classification has become an increasingly important problem. In this paper we propose a "Multivariate Adaptive Stochastic Search" (MASS) approach which first reduces the dimension of the data space and then applies a…

Applications · Statistics 2010-10-08 Tian Siva Tian , Gareth M. James , Rand R. Wilcox

Scene-aware Adaptive Compressive Sensing (ACS) has attracted significant interest due to its promising capability for efficient and high-fidelity acquisition of scene images. ACS typically prescribes adaptive sampling allocation (ASA) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhifu Tian , Tao Hu , Chaoyang Niu , Di Wu , Shu Wang

We propose a new Monte Carlo method for efficiently sampling trajectories with fixed initial and final conditions in a system with discrete degrees of freedom. The method can be applied to any stochastic process with local interactions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-30 Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Francesco Zamponi

We present a new adaptive resolution technique for efficient particle-based multiscale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The presented approach is tailor-made for molecular systems where atomistic resolution is required only in spatially…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Matej Praprotnik , Luigi Delle Site , Kurt Kremer

Purpose: A fast data-driven optimization approach, named bias-accelerated subset selection (BASS), is proposed for learning efficacious sampling patterns (SPs) with the purpose of reducing scan time in large-dimensional parallel MRI.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Marcelo V. W. Zibetti , Gabor T. Herman , Ravinder R. Regatte

The recent boom in computational chemistry has enabled several projects aimed at discovering useful materials or catalysts. We acknowledge and address two recurring issues in the field of computational catalyst discovery. First, calculating…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Kevin Tran , Willie Neiswanger , Kirby Broderick , Erix Xing , Jeff Schneider , Zachary W. Ulissi

This review describes recent advances by the authors and others on the topic of incorporating experimental data into molecular simulations through maximum entropy methods. Methods which incorporate experimental data improve accuracy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Dilnoza B. Amirkulova , Andrew D. White

The Active Subspace (AS) method is a widely used technique for identifying the most influential directions in high-dimensional input spaces that affect the output of a computational model. The standard AS algorithm requires a sufficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Fabio Nobile , Matteo Raviola , Raul Tempone

We previously introduced a conformational sampling method, a multi-dimensional virtual-system coupled molecular dynamics (mD-VcMD), to enhance conformational sampling of a biomolecular system by computer simulations. Here, we present a new…

Characterizing conformational transitions in physical systems remains a fundamental challenge, as traditional sampling methods struggle with the high-dimensional nature of molecular systems and high-energy barriers between stable states.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Magnus Petersen , Gemma Roig , Roberto Covino

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations present a data-mining challenge, given that they can generate a considerable amount of data but often rely on limited or biased human interpretation to examine their information content. By not asking the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 Fabrice Roncoroni , Ana Sanz-Matias , Siddharth Sundararaman , David Prendergast

Normal molecular dynamics simulations are usually unable to simulate chemical reactions due to the low probability of forming the transition state. Therefore, enhanced sampling methods are implemented to accelerate the occurrence of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Yi Sun , Xu Han , Lijiang Yang