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The paper by No\'e et al. [F. No\'e, S. Olsson, J. K\"ohler and H. Wu, Science, 365:6457 (2019)] introduced the concept of Boltzmann Generators (BGs), a deep generative model that can produce unbiased independent samples of many-body…

Computing equilibrium states in condensed-matter many-body systems, such as solvated proteins, is a long-standing challenge. Lacking methods for generating statistically independent equilibrium samples in "one shot", vast computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-15 Frank Noé , Simon Olsson , Jonas Köhler , Hao Wu

The use of generative models to sample equilibrium distributions of many-body systems, as first demonstrated by Boltzmann Generators, has attracted substantial interest due to their ability to produce unbiased and uncorrelated samples in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-23 Maximilian Schebek , Frank Noé , Jutta Rogal

Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood generative models with importance sampling, but practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Weilong Chen , Bojun Zhao , Jan Eckwert , Julija Zavadlav

We present a machine-learning model based on normalizing flows that is trained to sample from the isobaric-isothermal ensemble. In our approach, we approximate the joint distribution of a fully-flexible triclinic simulation box and particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Peter Wirnsberger , Borja Ibarz , George Papamakarios

Generative models based on invertible transformations provide a physics-aware route to sample equilibrium configurations directly from the Boltzmann distribution, enabling efficient exploration of complex thermodynamic landscapes. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-06 Luigi de Santis , John Russo , Andrea Ninarello

Scalable sampling of molecular states in thermodynamic equilibrium is a long-standing challenge in statistical physics. Boltzmann generators tackle this problem by pairing normalizing flows with importance sampling to obtain uncorrelated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Charlie B. Tan , Avishek Joey Bose , Chen Lin , Leon Klein , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong

The generation of equilibrium samples of molecular systems has been a long-standing problem in statistical physics. Boltzmann Generators are a generative machine learning method that addresses this issue by learning a transformation via a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Leon Klein , Frank Noé

Taking advantage of the advances in generative deep learning, particularly normalizing flow, a framework, called Boltzmann Generator, has recently been proposed for the purpose of generating equilibrium atomic configurations from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-27 Rasool Ahmad , Wei Cai

The accurate prediction of phase diagrams is of central importance for both the fundamental understanding of materials as well as for technological applications in material sciences. However, the computational prediction of the relative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-26 Maximilian Schebek , Michele Invernizzi , Frank Noé , Jutta Rogal

Efficient sampling from high-dimensional and multimodal unnormalized probability distributions is a central challenge in many areas of science and machine learning. We focus on Boltzmann generators (BGs) that aim to sample the Boltzmann…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Christopher von Klitzing , Denis Blessing , Henrik Schopmans , Pascal Friederich , Gerhard Neumann

Boltzmann generators approach the sampling problem in many-body physics by combining a normalizing flow and a statistical reweighting method to generate samples in thermodynamic equilibrium. The equilibrium distribution is usually defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-07 Manuel Dibak , Leon Klein , Andreas Krämer , Frank Noé

While recent advances have established efficient quantum algorithms for preparing Gibbs states of finite-dimensional systems, comparable complexity results for bosonic and other infinite-dimensional models remain unexplored. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Simon Becker , Cambyse Rouzé , Robert Salzmann

A methodology to sample the isothermal-isobaric ensemble using Langevin dynamics is proposed, which combines novel features of geometric integrators for the equations of motion. By employing the Trotter expansion, the methodology generates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Samuel Cajahuaringa , Alex Antonelli

Efficient sampling from the Boltzmann distribution given its energy function is a key challenge for modeling complex physical systems such as molecules. Boltzmann Generators address this problem by leveraging continuous normalizing flows to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Rishal Aggarwal , Jacky Chen , Nicholas M. Boffi , David Ryan Koes

Sampling configurations at thermodynamic equilibrium is a central challenge in statistical physics. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) tackle it by combining a generative model with a Monte Carlo (MC) correction step to obtain asymptotically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-30 Louis Grenioux , Maxence Noble

We describe in detail a recently proposed lattice-Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components. In particular, the focus is on the modeling of one-component fluid systems which obey non-ideal gas equations of…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Xiaowen Shan , Hudong Chen

Machine learning algorithms often take inspiration from established results and knowledge from statistical physics. A prototypical example is the Boltzmann machine algorithm for supervised learning, which utilizes knowledge of classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-04 Tatjana Puskarov , Axel Cortes Cubero

Using normalizing flows and reweighting, Boltzmann Generators enable equilibrium sampling from a Boltzmann distribution, defined by an energy function and thermodynamic state. In this work, we introduce Thermodynamic Interpolation (TI),…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Selma Moqvist , Weilong Chen , Mathias Schreiner , Feliks Nüske , Simon Olsson

The Boltzmann distribution encodes our subjective knowledge of the configuration in a classical lattice model, given only its Hamiltonian. If we acquire further information about the configuration from measurement, our knowledge is updated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-03 Adam Nahum , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen
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