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Finding the stationary states of a free energy functional is an important problem in phase field crystal (PFC) models. Many efforts have been devoted for designing numerical schemes with energy dissipation and mass conservation properties.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Kai Jiang , Wei Si , Chen Chang , Chenglong Bao

Predicting the binding affinity between small molecules and target macromolecules while combining both speed and accuracy, is a cornerstone of modern computational drug discovery which is critical for accelerating therapeutic development.…

We propose a formulation of adaptive computation of free energy differences, in the ABF or nonequilibrium metadynamics spirit, using conditional distributions of samples of configurations which evolve in time. This allows to present a truly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Tony Lelievre , Mathias Rousset , Gabriel Stoltz

We present a method for determining the free energy dependence on a selected number of collective variables using an adaptive bias. The formalism provides a unified description which has metadynamics and canonical sampling as limiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-31 Alessandro Barducci , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

Free energy calculations are widely used tools in computational chemistry, but their dependence on the assignment of partial charges during force field parametrization reduces their accuracy and reproducibility. In this work, we highlight…

We present an efficient classical algorithm for training deep Boltzmann machines (DBMs) that uses rejection sampling in concert with variational approximations to estimate the gradients of the training objective function. Our algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Nathan Wiebe , Ashish Kapoor , Christopher Granade , Krysta M Svore

We consider the statistical mechanics of a classical particle in a one-dimensional box subjected to a random potential which constitutes a Wiener process on the coordinate axis. The distribution of the free energy and all correlation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kurt Broderix , Reiner Kree

We develop a method to fit high-temperature Gibbs free energy data for the development of interatomic potentials for atomic systems. The approach is based on Hamiltonian thermodynamic integration, enabling the identification of suitable…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-04 Liangrui Wei , Yang Sun

We introduce a simple enhanced sampling approach for the calculation of free energy differences and barriers along a one-dimensional reaction coordinate. First, a small number of short nonequilibrium simulations are carried out along the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Kristof M. Bal

We present an Adaptively Biased Molecular Dynamics (ABMD) method for the computation of the free energy surface of a reaction coordinate using non-equilibrium dynamics. The ABMD method belongs to the general category of umbrella sampling…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-16 Volodymyr Babin , Christopher Roland , Celeste Sagui

A new adaptive approach is proposed for variational inequalities with a Lipschitz-continuous field. Estimates of the necessary number of iterations are obtained to achieve a given quality of the variational inequality solution. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Titov

Optimization in the Bures-Wasserstein space has been gaining popularity in the machine learning community since it draws connections between variational inference and Wasserstein gradient flows. The variational inference objective function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Hoang Phuc Hau Luu , Hanlin Yu , Bernardo Williams , Marcelo Hartmann , Arto Klami

The nonequilibrium work fluctuation theorem provides the way for calculations of (equilibrium) free energy based on work measurements of nonequilibrium, finite-time processes and their reversed counterparts by applying Bennett's acceptance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-26 Aljoscha M. Hahn , Holger Then

We introduce adaptive sampling methods for stochastic programs with deterministic constraints. First, we propose and analyze a variant of the stochastic projected gradient method where the sample size used to approximate the reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Florian Beiser , Brendan Keith , Simon Urbainczyk , Barbara Wohlmuth

A systematic procedure for optimising the friction coefficient in underdamped Langevin dynamics as a sampling tool is given by taking the gradient of the associated asymptotic variance with respect to friction. We give an expression for…

Computation · Statistics 2023-11-01 Martin Chak , Nikolas Kantas , Tony Lelièvre , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

We propose a new adaptive algorithm for the approximation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation via a higher-order tangent plane scheme. We show that the adaptive approximation satisfies an energy inequality and demonstrate numerically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Jan Bohn , Willy Dörfler , Michael Feischl , Stefan Karch

This paper develops and analyzes a stochastic derivative-free optimization strategy. A key feature is the state-dependent adaptive variance. We prove global convergence in probability with algebraic rate and give the quantitative results in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Björn Engquist , Kui Ren , Yunan Yang

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) constitute one of the main models for machine statistical inference and they are widely employed in Artificial Intelligence as powerful tools for (deep) learning. However, in contrast with countless…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-12 Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra , Brunello Tirozzi

Learning in restricted Boltzmann machine is typically hard due to the computation of gradients of log-likelihood function. To describe the network state statistics of the restricted Boltzmann machine, we develop an advanced mean field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Haiping Huang , Taro Toyoizumi

Free energy calculations based on atomistic Hamiltonians and sampling are key to a first principles understanding of biomolecular processes, material properties, and macromolecular chemistry. Here, we generalize the Free Energy Perturbation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Martin Reinhardt , Helmut Grubmüller