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Deep learning-based generative models have emerged as powerful tools for modeling complex data distributions and generating high-fidelity samples, offering a transformative approach to efficiently explore the configuration space of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Xiaoshan Luo , Zhenyu Wang , Qingchang Wang , Jian Lv , Lei Wang , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Normalizing flows provide an elegant approach to generative modeling that allows for efficient sampling and exact density evaluation of unknown data distributions. However, current techniques have significant limitations in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sahil Sidheekh , Chris B. Dock , Tushar Jain , Radu Balan , Maneesh K. Singh

Efficient gradient computation of the Jacobian determinant term is a core problem in many machine learning settings, and especially so in the normalizing flow framework. Most proposed flow models therefore either restrict to a function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 T. Anderson Keller , Jorn W. T. Peters , Priyank Jaini , Emiel Hoogeboom , Patrick Forré , Max Welling

The solid-liquid interface free energy \gamma sl is a key parameter controlling nucleation and growth during solidification and other phenomena. There are intrinsic difficulties in obtaining accurate experimental values, and the previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-20 Stefano Angioletti-Uberti , Michele Ceriotti , Mike W. Finnis , Peter D. Lee

We use machine learning methods on local structure to identify flow defects - or regions susceptible to rearrangement - in jammed and glassy systems. We apply this method successfully to two disparate systems: a two dimensional experimental…

Machine learning holds the promise of learning the energy functional via examples, bypassing the need to solve complicated quantum-chemical equations and realizing efficient computing of molecular electronic properties.

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Ruobing Wang

In this paper, we suggest a novel sampling method for Monte Carlo molecular simulations. In order to perform efficient sampling of molecular systems, it is advantageous to avoid extremely high energy configurations while also retaining the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Katsuhiro Endo , Daisuke Yuhara , Kenji Yasuoka

Recently normalizing flows (NFs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on modeling 3D point clouds while allowing sampling with arbitrary resolution at inference time. However, these flow-based models still require long training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Janis Postels , Mengya Liu , Riccardo Spezialetti , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Sampling equilibrium distributions is fundamental to statistical mechanics. While flow matching has emerged as scalable state-of-the-art paradigm for generative modeling, its potential for equilibrium sampling in condensed-phase systems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Emil Hoffmann , Maximilian Schebek , Leon Klein , Frank Noé , Jutta Rogal

Extracting the maximum amount of cosmological and astrophysical information from upcoming large-scale surveys remains a challenge. This includes evaluating the exact likelihood, parameter inference and generating new diverse synthetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Roy Friedman , Sultan Hassan

A ubiquitous approach to obtain transferable machine learning-based models of potential energy surfaces for atomistic systems is to decompose the total energy into a sum of local atom-centred contributions. However, in many systems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Jack Thomas , William J. Baldwin , Gábor Csányi , Christoph Ortner

We present a computer simulation study of a (6,12)-Lennard-Jones fluid confined to a slit pore, formed by two uniform planes. These interact via (3,9)-Lennard-Jones potential with the fluid particles. When the fluid approaches the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-20 N. Gribova , H. Maleki , A. Arnold , C. Holm , T. Schilling

Computational studies of chemical reactions in complex environments such as proteins, nanostructures, or on surfaces require accurate and efficient atomistic models applicable to the nanometer scale. In general, an accurate parametrization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Christoph Brunken , Markus Reiher

We consider the problem of density estimation on Riemannian manifolds. Density estimation on manifolds has many applications in fluid-mechanics, optics and plasma physics and it appears often when dealing with angular variables (such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-10 Mevlana C. Gemici , Danilo Rezende , Shakir Mohamed

Small-scale turbulence can be comprehensively described in terms of velocity gradients, which makes them an appealing starting point for low-dimensional modeling. Typical models consist of stochastic equations based on closures for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-01 Maurizio Carbone , Vincent J. Peterhans , Alexander S. Ecker , Michael Wilczek

Machine Learning (ML) techniques are revolutionizing the way to perform efficient materials modeling. Nevertheless, not all the ML approaches allow for the understanding of microscopic mechanisms at play in different phenomena. To address…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Udaykumar Gajera , Loriano Storchi , Danila Amoroso , Francesco Delodovici , Silvia Picozzi

Normalizing Flows provide a principled framework for high-dimensional density estimation and generative modeling by constructing invertible transformations with tractable Jacobian determinants. We propose Fractal Flow, a novel normalizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-28 Binhui Zhang , Jianwei Ma

Accurately calculating energies and atomic forces with linear-scaling methods is a crucial approach to accelerating and improving molecular dynamics simulations. In this paper, we introduce HamGNN-DM, a machine learning model designed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-06 Zaizhou Xin , Yang Zhong , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

Normalizing flows are generative machine learning models which can efficiently approximate probability distributions, using only given samples of a distribution. This architecture is used to interpolate the chiral condensate obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-30 Frithjof Karsch , Anirban Lahiri , Marius Neumann , Christian Schmidt

Obtaining the free energies of condensed phase chemical reactions remains computationally prohibitive for high-level quantum mechanical methods. We introduce a hierarchical machine learning framework that bridges this gap by distilling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Chenghan Li , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan