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Based on a generative model (GM) and beliefs over hidden states, the free energy principle (FEP) enables an agent to sense and act by minimizing a free energy bound on Bayesian surprise. Inclusion of prior beliefs in the GM about desired…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Thijs van de Laar , Ayça Özçelikkale , Henk Wymeersch

The proposed method of the free energy calculation is based on the approximation of the energy distribution in the microcanonical ensemble by the Gaussian distribution. We hope that our approach will be effective for the systems with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-23 Boris Kryzhanovsky , Leonid Litinskii

We consider the problem of defining free energy and other thermodynamic functions when the entropy is given as a general function of the probablity distribution, including that for non extensive forms. We find that the free energy, which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-07 Fariel Shafee

A unified treatment for the existence of free energy in several random energy models is presented. If the sequence of distributions associated with the particle systems obeys a large deviation principle, then the free energy exists almost…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. K. Jana , B. V. Rao

We present a new estimator for computing free energy differences and thermodynamic expectations as well as their uncertainties from samples obtained from multiple equilibrium states via either simulation or experiment. The estimator, which…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Michael R. Shirts , John D. Chodera

Statistical systems on random networks can be formulated in terms of partition functions expressed with integrals by regarding Feynman diagrams as random networks. We consider the cases of random networks with bounded but generic degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-18 Naoki Sasakura , Yuki Sato

Recent developments in statistical mechanics have allowed the estimation of equilibrium free energies from the statistics of work measurements during processes that drive the system out of equilibrium. Here a different class of processes is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Artur B. Adib

The free energy, or equivalently the ground state energy in finite volume, may be calculated from forward scattering amplitudes using a formula due to Dashen, Ma, and Bernstein. However a naive treatment leads to singularities when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Daniel Schubring

Host-guest binding plays a crucial role in the functionality of various systems, and its efficiency is often quantified using the binding free energy, which represents the free-energy difference between the bound and dissociated states.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Kazuya Okita , Yusei Maruyama , Kento Kasahara , Nobuyuki Matubayasi

We propose a method to compute free-energy differences from nonadiabatic alchemical transformations using flow-based generative models. The method, nonadiabatic force matching, hinges on estimating the dissipation along an alchemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jorge L. Rosa-Raíces , David T. Limmer

A methodology for calculating the contribution of charged defects to the configurational free energy of an ionic crystal is introduced. The temperature-independent Wang-Landau Monte Carlo technique is applied to a simple model of a solid…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Robert M. Horton , Andrew J. Haslam , Amparo Galindo , George Jackson , Michael W. Finnis

For a given electronic excited state, the 0-0 energy ($T_0$ or $T_{00}$) is the simplest property allowing straightforward and physically-sound comparisons between theory and (accurate) experiment. However, the computation of 0-0 energies…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Pierre-François Loos , Denis Jacquemin

The present paper proposes an adaptive biasing potential for the computation of free energy landscapes. It is motivated by statistical learning arguments and unifies the tasks of biasing the molecular dynamics to escape free energy wells…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 I. Bilionis , P. S. Koutsourelakis

We develop a systematic procedure to approximate generalized free energy in out of equilibrium stochastic systems. The procedure only requires knowledge of the averages of macroscopic observables and uses quasi-equilibrium distribution to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-09-05 Alexander Mozeika

We present a unique derivation of metadynamics. The starting point for the derivation is an on-the-fly reweighting scheme but through an approximation we recover the standard metadynamics and the well-tempered metadynamics in a general form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Bradley M. Dickson

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

In a previous work, the n-vicinity method for approximate calculation of the partition function of a spin system was proposed. The equation of state was obtained in the most general form. In the present paper, we analyze the applicability…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-01 Boris Kryzhanovsky , Leonid Litinskii

Recent advances in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and single molecule technologies make it possible to extract free energy differences from irreversible work measurements in pulling experiments. To date, free energy recovery has been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Anna Alemany , Alessandro Mossa , Ivan Junier , Felix Ritort

We propose Energy-based generator matching (EGM), a modality-agnostic approach to train generative models from energy functions in the absence of data. Extending the recently proposed generator matching, EGM enables training of arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Dongyeop Woo , Minsu Kim , Minkyu Kim , Kiyoung Seong , Sungsoo Ahn

We propose a proof of convergence of an adaptive method used in molecular dynamics to compute free energy profiles. Mathematically, it amounts to studying the long-time behavior of a stochastic process which satisfies a non-linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Tony Lelievre , Felix Otto , Mathias Rousset , Gabriel Stoltz