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Sampling is a fundamental problem in computer science and statistics. However, for a given task and stream, it is often not possible to choose good sampling probabilities in advance. We derive a general framework for adaptively changing the…

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Unraveling the dynamical motions of biomolecules is essential for bridging their structure and function, yet it remains a major computational challenge. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a detailed depiction of biomolecular…

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Recent advances in both theory and methods have created opportunities to simulate biomolecular processes more efficiently using adaptive ensemble simulations. Ensemble-based simulations are used widely to compute a number of individual…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Vivek Balasubramanian , Travis Jensen , Matteo Turilli , Peter Kasson , Michael Shirts , Shantenu Jha

Molecular dynamics simulations hold great promise for providing insight into the microscopic behavior of complex molecular systems. However, their effectiveness is often constrained by long timescales associated with rare events. Enhanced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Kai Zhu , Enrico Trizio , Jintu Zhang , Renling Hu , Linlong Jiang , Tingjun Hou , Luigi Bonati

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…

This paper introduces ASCAI, a novel adaptive sampling methodology that can learn how to effectively compress Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for accelerated inference on resource-constrained platforms. Modern DNN compression techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Mojan Javaheripi , Mohammad Samragh , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar

Stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems can undergo rapid transitions relative to the change in their forcing, for example due to the occurrence of multiple equilibrium solutions for a specific interval of parameters. In this paper, we…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-12 S. Baars , D. Castellana , F. W. Wubs , H. A. Dijkstra

We present a method for enhanced sampling of molecular dynamics simulations using stochastic resetting. Various phenomena, ranging from crystal nucleation to protein folding, occur on timescales that are unreachable in standard simulations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg

Monitoring software systems at runtime is key for understanding workloads, debugging, and self-adaptation. It typically involves collecting and storing observable software data, which can be analyzed online or offline. Despite the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jhonny Mertz , Ingrid Nunes

Molecular dynamics simulations have become essential in many areas of atomistic modelling from drug discovery to materials science. They provide critical atomic-level insights into key dynamical events experiments cannot easily capture.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Tiejun Wei , Balint Dudas , Edina Rosta

For decades, researchers have been applying computer simulation to address problems in biology. However, many of these "grand challenges" in computational biology, such as simulating how proteins fold, remained unsolved due to their great…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-01-08 Stefan M. Larson , Christopher D. Snow , Michael Shirts , Vijay S. Pande

Genome sequencing projects are rapidly increasing the number of high-dimensional protein sequence datasets. Clustering a high-dimensional protein sequence dataset using traditional machine learning approaches poses many challenges. Many…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-27 Preeti Jha , Aruna Tiwari , Neha Bharill , Milind Ratnaparkhe , Om Prakash Patel , Nilagiri Harshith , Mukkamalla Mounika , Neha Nagendra

Foundation models have revolutionized general-purpose problem-solving, offering rapid task adaptation through pretraining, meta-training, and finetuning. Recent crucial advances in these paradigms reveal the importance of challenging task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Qi Wang , Zehao Xiao , Yixiu Mao , Yun Qu , Jiayi Shen , Yiqin Lv , Xiangyang Ji

The transition from petascale to exascale computers is characterized by substantial changes in the computer architectures and technologies. The research community relying on computational simulations is being forced to revisit the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Travis Johnston , Boyu Zhang , Adam Liwo , Silvia Crivelli , Michela Taufer

Enhanced sampling algorithms have emerged as powerful methods to extend the utility of molecular dynamics simulations and allow the sampling of larger portions of the configuration space of complex systems in a given amount of simulation…

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Factor models are a class of powerful statistical models that have been widely used to deal with dependent measurements that arise frequently from various applications from genomics and neuroscience to economics and finance. As data are…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-14 Jianqing Fan , Kaizheng Wang , Yiqiao Zhong , Ziwei Zhu

The curse of dimensionality presents a pervasive challenge in optimization problems, with exponential expansion of the search space rapidly causing traditional algorithms to become inefficient or infeasible. An adaptive sampling strategy is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Julian Soltes

High Performance Computing (HPC) has evolved over the past decades into increasingly complex and powerful systems. Current HPC systems consume several MWs of power, enough to power small towns, and are in fact soon approaching the limits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Ivan Rodero , Manish Parashar

Flexibility at hardware level is the main driving force behind adaptive systems whose aim is to realise microarhitecture deconfiguration 'online'. This feature allows the software/hardware stack to tolerate drastic changes of the workload…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ana Lava , Mahdi Jelodari Mamaghani , Siamak Mohammadi , Steve Furber

The prediction of the three-dimensional structures of the native state of proteins from the sequences of their amino acids is one of the most important challenges in molecular biology. An essential ingredient to solve this problem within…

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