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There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our…

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Simulating rare events, such as the transformation of a reactant into a product in a chemical reaction typically requires enhanced sampling techniques that rely on heuristically chosen collective variables (CVs). We propose using…

Deep learning on graphs has become a popular research topic with many applications. However, past work has concentrated on learning graph embedding tasks, which is in contrast with advances in generative models for images and text. Is it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Martin Simonovsky , Nikos Komodakis

Perceiving meaningful activities in a long video sequence is a challenging problem due to ambiguous definition of 'meaningfulness' as well as clutters in the scene. We approach this problem by learning a generative model for regular motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Mahmudul Hasan , Jonghyun Choi , Jan Neumann , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Larry S. Davis

Data-driven, machine learning (ML) models of atomistic interactions are often based on flexible and non-physical functions that can relate nuanced aspects of atomic arrangements into predictions of energies and forces. As a result, these…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-15 Bartosz Barzdajn , Christopher P. Race

The high computational cost of evaluating atomic interactions recently motivated the development of computationally inexpensive kinetic models, which can be parametrized from MD simulations of complex chemistry of thousands of species or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Vincent Dufour-Décieux , Rodrigo Freitas , Evan J. Reed

Controlling polymorphism in molecular crystals is crucial in the pharmaceutical, dye, and pesticide industries. However, its theoretical description is extremely challenging, due to the associated long timescales ($ > 1 \, \mu s$). We…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Oren Elishav , Roy Podgaetsky , Olga Meikler , Barak Hirshberg

Computational techniques are required for narrowing down the vast space of possibilities to plausible prebiotic scenarios, since precise information on the molecular composition, the dominant reaction chemistry, and the conditions for that…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-07 Jakob L. Andersen , Christoph Flamm , Daniel Merkle , Peter F. Stadler

Analyzing large volumes of high-dimensional data requires dimensionality reduction: finding meaningful low-dimensional structures hidden in their high-dimensional observations. Such practice is needed in atomistic simulations of complex…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Jakub Rydzewski , Ming Chen , Omar Valsson

Training generative models that capture rich semantics of the data and interpreting the latent representations encoded by such models are very important problems in un-/self-supervised learning. In this work, we provide a simple algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Samuel C. Hoffman , Payel Das , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Kahini Wadhawan , Prasanna Sattigeri

We develop new unbiased estimators of a number of quantities defined for functions of conditional moments, like conditional expectations and variances, of functions of two independent random variables given the first variable, including…

Computation · Statistics 2013-10-03 Tomasz Badowski

A new model for generating survival trajectories and data based on applying an autoencoder of a specific structure is proposed. It solves three tasks. First, it provides predictions in the form of the expected event time and the survival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Andrei V. Konstantinov , Stanislav R. Kirpichenko , Lev V. Utkin

It has been previously observed that training Variational Recurrent Autoencoders (VRAE) for text generation suffers from serious uninformative latent variables problem. The model would collapse into a plain language model that totally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Dayiheng Liu , Xu Yang , Feng He , Yuanyuan Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Machine learning has proven to be a valuable tool to approximate functions in high-dimensional spaces. Unfortunately, analysis of these models to extract the relevant physics is never as easy as applying machine learning to a large dataset…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-06 Conrad W. Rosenbrock , Eric R. Homer , Gábor Csányi , Gus L. W. Hart

Machine learned force fields typically require manual construction of training sets consisting of thousands of first principles calculations, which can result in low training efficiency and unpredictable errors when applied to structures…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Jonathan Vandermause , Steven B. Torrisi , Simon Batzner , Yu Xie , Lixin Sun , Alexie M. Kolpak , Boris Kozinsky

Reaction prediction is a fundamental problem in computational chemistry. Existing approaches typically generate a chemical reaction by sampling tokens or graph edits sequentially, conditioning on previously generated outputs. These…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Hangrui Bi , Hengyi Wang , Chence Shi , Jian Tang

In social robotics, endowing humanoid robots with the ability to generate bodily expressions of affect can improve human-robot interaction and collaboration, since humans attribute, and perhaps subconsciously anticipate, such traces to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mina Marmpena , Fernando Garcia , Angelica Lim , Nikolas Hemion , Thomas Wennekers

Recent progress in machine learning has sparked increased interest in utilizing this technology to predict the outcomes of chemical reactions. The ultimate aim of such endeavors is to develop a universal model that can predict products for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Daniel Julian , Jesús Pérez-Ríos

We introduce a variational approximation to the microscopic dynamics of rare conformational transitions of macromolecules. Within this framework it is possible to simulate on a small computer cluster reactions as complex as protein folding,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-02-19 S. a Beccara , L. Fant , P. Faccioli

Autoencoders and generative neural network models have recently gained popularity in fluid mechanics due to their spontaneity and low processing time instead of high fidelity CFD simulations. Auto encoders are used as model order reduction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-04 Kanishk , Tanishk Nandal , Prince Tyagi , Raj Kumar Singh