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Identifying reaction coordinates(RCs) is an active area of research, given the crucial role RCs play in determining the progress of a chemical reaction. The choice of the reaction coordinate is often based on heuristic knowledge. However,…
The thermal cis-trans isomerization around the C$_{13}$=C$_{14}$ double bond of retinal is a prototypical high-barrier reaction whose mechanism hinges on subtle out-of-plane bending motions. We apply Artificial Intelligence for Molecular…
We apply the Adaptive Multilevel Splitting method to the Ceq -> Cax transition of alanine dipeptide in vacuum. Some properties of the algorithm are numerically illustrated, such as the unbiasedness of the probability estimator and the…
Finding optimal reaction coordinates and predicting accurate kinetic rates for activated processes are two of the foremost challenges of molecular simulations. We introduce an algorithm that tackles the two problems at once: starting from a…
Motivated by challenges arising in molecular simulation, we study reactive trajectories of the overdamped Langevin dynamics, i.e. trajectories observed as they pass from a set A corresponding to the reagents of a chemical reaction to a set…
Understanding mechanisms of rare but important events in complex molecular systems, such as protein folding or ligand (un)binding, requires accurately mapping transition paths from an initial to a final state. The committor is the ideal…
In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has been developed with the advance of contrastive learning methods. The existing contrastive learning methods use normal augmentations to…
Computing accurate rate constants for catalytic events occurring at the surface of a given material represents a challenging task with multiple potential applications in chemistry. To address this question, we propose an approach based on a…
We propose the Linearly Adaptive Cross Entropy Loss function. This is a novel measure derived from the information theory. In comparison to the standard cross entropy loss function, the proposed one has an additional term that depends on…
Identifying enzymes that catalyze target biochemical reactions is a key step in computational enzyme discovery and biocatalyst design. Recent representation-learning methods formulate this problem as enzyme--reaction matching, where paired…
The Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has gained significant attention across a broad spectrum of machine learning applications. Incorporating the over-relaxation technique shows potential for enhancing the convergence rate…
Several enhanced sampling techniques rely on the definition of collective variables to effectively explore free energy landscapes. Existing variables that describe the progression along a reactive pathway offer an elegant solution but face…
Interpretable reaction coordinates are essential for understanding rare conformational transitions in molecular dynamics. The Atomistic Mechanism Of Rare Events in Molecular Dynamics (AMORE-MD) framework enhances interpretability of…
The committor function is a central object for quantifying the transitions between metastable states of dynamical systems. Recently, a number of computational methods based on deep neural networks have been developed for computing the…
A regularized minimization model with $l_1$-norm penalty (RP) is introduced for training the autoencoders that belong to a class of two-layer neural networks. We show that the RP can act as an exact penalty model which shares the same…
The reaction-coordinate mapping is a useful technique to study complex quantum dissipative dynamics into structured environments. In essence, it aims to mimic the original problem by means of an 'augmented system', which includes a suitably…
This paper presents a planning pipeline framework for locomotion in rope-assisted robots climbing vertical surfaces. The proposed framework is formulated as a bi-level optimization scheme that addresses a mixed-integer problem: selecting…
Reaction coordinates are widely used throughout chemical physics to model and understand complex chemical transformations. We introduce a definition of the natural reaction coordinate, suitable for condensed phase and biomolecular systems,…
Learned image compression methods have shown superior rate-distortion performance and remarkable potential compared to traditional compression methods. Most existing learned approaches use stacked convolution or window-based self-attention…
We extend the non-parametric framework of reaction coordinate optimization to non-equilibrium ensembles of (short) trajectories. For example, we show how, starting from such an ensemble, one can obtain an equilibrium free energy profile…