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Entropy is one of the key thermodynamic variables reflecting changes in the state of matter. Unlike other thermodynamic variables, it is well-defined also for nonequilibrium steady states through its relation to information. Applying this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

We show that neural networks can be optimized to represent minimum energy paths as continuous functions, offering a flexible alternative to discrete path-search methods such as Nudged Elastic Band (NEB). Our approach parameterizes reaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kalyan Ramakrishnan , Lars L. Schaaf , Chen Lin , Guangrun Wang , Philip Torr

The enthalpy of mixing in the liquid phase is an important property for predicting phase formation in alloys. It can be estimated in a large compositional space from pair wise interactions between elements, for which machine learning has…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Quentin Bizot , Ryo Tamura , Guillaume Deffrennes

A general framework to describe a vast majority of biology-inspired systems is to model them as stochastic processes in which multiple couplings are in play at the same time. Molecular motors, chemical reaction networks, catalytic enzymes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Daniel M. Busiello , Deepak Gupta , Amos Maritan

In highly interactive driving scenes, trajectory prediction is conditioned on information from surrounding traffic participants such as cars and pedestrians. Our main contribution is a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daniel Jost , Luca Paparusso , Martin Stoll , Jörg Wagner , Raghu Rajan , Joschka Bödecker

The Information Bottleneck (IB) objective uses information theory to formulate a task-performance versus robustness trade-off. It has been successfully applied in the standard discriminative classification setting. We pose the question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Lynton Ardizzone , Radek Mackowiak , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

Many processes in chemistry, physics, and biology involve rare events in which the system escapes from a metastable state by surmounting an activation barrier. Examples range from chemical reactions, protein folding, and nucleation events…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Niels Zijlstra , Daniel Nettels , Rohit Satija , Dmitrii E. Makarov , Benjamin Schuler

Decarbonizing the energy supply is essential and urgent to mitigate the increasingly visible climate change. Its basis is identifying emission responsibility during power allocation by the carbon emission flow (CEF) model. However, the main…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Linwei Sang , Yinliang Xu , Hongbin Sun

Trap models describe glassy dynamics as a stochastic process on a network of configurations representing local energy minima. We study within this class the paradigmatic Barrat-M\'ezard model, which has Glauber transition rates. Our focus…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-25 Diego Tapias , Eva Paprotzki , Peter Sollich

The ability of a feed-forward neural network to learn and classify different states of polymer configurations is systematically explored. Performing numerical experiments, we find that a simple network model can, after adequate training,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-14 Qianshi Wei , Roger G. Melko , Jeff Z. Y. Chen

Entropic Dynamics is a framework in which quantum theory is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. There is no underlying action principle. Instead, the dynamics is driven by entropy subject to the appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ariel Caticha , Daniel Bartolomeo , Marcel Reginatto

In this work, we study the dynamics of complex systems with time-dependent transition rates, focusing on $p$-adic analysis in modeling such systems. Starting from the master equation that governs the stochastic dynamics of a system with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Ángel Morán Ledezma

In this work we consider a general non-autonomous hybrid system based on the integrate-and-fire model, widely used as simplified version of neuronal models and other types of excitable systems. Our unique assumption is that the system is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Albert Granados , Martin Krupa , Frédérique Clément

The data-driven discovery of long-time macroscopic dynamics and thermodynamics of dissipative systems with particle fidelity is hampered by significant obstacles. These include the strong time-scale limitations inherent to particle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zequn He , Celia Reina

Understanding the entropy production of systems strongly coupled to thermal baths is a core problem of both quantum thermodynamics and mesoscopic physics. While there exist many techniques to accurately study entropy production in such…

While sophisticated numerical methods for studying equilibrium states have well advanced, quantitative predictions of kinetic behaviour remain challenging. We introduce a reactant-to-barrier (R2B) machine learning model that rapidly and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Stefan Heinen , Guido Falk von Rudorff , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

This paper presents Hyper-VIB, a hypernetwork-enhanced information bottleneck (IB) approach designed to enable efficient task-oriented communications in 6G collaborative intelligent systems. Leveraging IB theory, our approach enables an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jingchen Peng , Chaowen Deng , Yili Deng , Boxiang Ren , Lu Yang

The kinetics of ordering and concurrent ordering and clustering is analyzed with an equation of motion initially developed to account for dissipative processes in quantum systems. A simplified energy eigenstructure, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-28 Ryo Yamada , Michael R. von Spakovsky , William T. Reynolds,

Many algorithms for finding reaction pathways require an initial estimate of the minimum energy path (MEP). Most estimation methods use a variational approach and thus must be seeded from an even simpler path, such as one generated by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Mark C Palenik

Estimating rate coefficients from complex chemical reactions is essential for advancing detailed chemistry. However, the stiffness inherent in real-world atmospheric chemistry systems poses severe challenges, leading to training instability…

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