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Deep state-space models (DSSMs) enable temporal predictions by learning the underlying dynamics of observed sequence data. They are often trained by maximising the evidence lower bound. However, as we show, this does not ensure the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Alexej Klushyn , Richard Kurle , Maximilian Soelch , Botond Cseke , Patrick van der Smagt

When learning stable linear dynamical systems from data, three important properties are desirable: i) predictive accuracy, ii) verifiable stability, and iii) computational efficiency. Unconstrained minimization of prediction errors leads to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hanyao Guo , Yunhai Han , Harish Ravichandar

These notes offer a unified introduction to spectral methods for the study of complex systems. They are intended as an operative manual rather than a theorem-proof textbook: the emphasis is on tools, identities, and perspectives that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Francesco Caravelli

There is an increasing demand for computing the relevant structures, equilibria and long-timescale kinetics of biomolecular processes, such as protein-drug binding, from high-throughput molecular dynamics simulations. Current methods employ…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-07 Andreas Mardt , Luca Pasquali , Hao Wu , Frank Noé

The description of chemical processes at the molecular level is often facilitated by use of reaction coordinates, or collective variables (CVs). The CV measures the progress of the reaction and allows the construction of profiles that track…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Johannes C. B. Dietschreit , Dennis J. Diestler , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Learning representations of underlying environmental dynamics from partial observations is a critical challenge in machine learning. In the context of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs), state representations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Chao Han , Debabrota Basu , Michael Mangan , Eleni Vasilaki , Aditya Gilra

Collective variable (CV) or order parameter based enhanced sampling algorithms have achieved great success due to their ability to efficiently explore the rough potential energy landscapes of complex systems. However, the degeneracy of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Jing Zhang , Ming Chen

We give a polynomial-time algorithm for learning latent-state linear dynamical systems without system identification, and without assumptions on the spectral radius of the system's transition matrix. The algorithm extends the recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Elad Hazan , Holden Lee , Karan Singh , Cyril Zhang , Yi Zhang

Discrete-space kinetic models, i.e., Markov state models, have emerged as powerful tools for reducing the complexity of trajectories generated from molecular dynamics simulations. These models require configuration-space representations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Joseph F. Rudzinski , Marc Radu , Tristan Bereau

This paper studies sequence modeling for prediction tasks with long range dependencies. We propose a new formulation for state space models (SSMs) based on learning linear dynamical systems with the spectral filtering algorithm (Hazan et…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Naman Agarwal , Daniel Suo , Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan

Enhanced sampling methods typically require predefined collective variables (CVs) that presuppose knowledge of reaction coordinates, restricting the discovery of unanticipated transition mechanisms or intermediates. Here, we show that a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiangrui Li , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

Deep neural networks can learn powerful prior probability models for images, as evidenced by the high-quality generations obtained with recent score-based diffusion methods. But the means by which these networks capture complex global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zahra Kadkhodaie , Florentin Guth , Stéphane Mallat , Eero P Simoncelli

Spectral densities encode essential information about system-environment interactions in open-quantum systems, playing a pivotal role in shaping the system's dynamics. In this work, we leverage machine learning techniques to reconstruct key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jessica Barr , Alessandro Ferraro , Mauro Paternostro , Giorgio Zicari

The excited state dynamics of chromophores in complex environments determine a range of vital biological and energy capture processes. Time-resolved, multidimensional optical spectroscopies provide a key tool to investigate these processes.…

We use local diffusion maps to assess the quality of two types of collective variables (CVs) for a recently published hydrogen combustion benchmark dataset~\cite{guan2022benchmark} that contains ab initio molecular dynamics trajectories and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Taehee Ko , Joseph Heindel , Xingyi Guan , Teresa Head-Gordon , David Williams-Young , Chao Yang

Learning on evolving(dynamic) graphs has caught the attention of researchers as static methods exhibit limited performance in this setting. The existing methods for dynamic graphs learn spatial features by local neighborhood aggregation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Anson Bastos , Abhishek Nadgeri , Kuldeep Singh , Toyotaro Suzumura , Manish Singh

We propose a sampling algorithm relying on a collective variable (CV) of mid-size dimension modelled by a normalizing flow and using non-equilibrium dynamics to propose full configurational moves from the proposition of a refreshed value of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-29 Samuel Tamagnone , Alessandro Laio , Marylou Gabrié

Large language models and deep neural networks achieve strong performance but suffer from reliability issues and high computational cost. This thesis proposes a unified framework based on spectral geometry and random matrix theory to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Davide Ettori

Coarse-graining has become an area of tremendous importance within many different research fields. For molecular simulation, coarse-graining bears the promise of finding simplified models such that long-time simulations of large-scale…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Feliks Nüske , Lorenzo Boninsegna , Cecilia Clementi

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are widely used statistical models for modeling sequential data. The parameter estimation for HMMs from time series data is an important learning problem. The predominant methods for parameter estimation are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Carl Mattfeld