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We study the convergence to equilibrium of an underdamped Langevin equation that is controlled by a linear feedback force. Specifically, we are interested in sampling the possibly multimodal invariant probability distribution of a Langevin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Tobias Breiten , Carsten Hartmann , Lara Neureither , Upanshu Sharma

Finding proper collective variables for complex systems and processes is one of the most challenging tasks in simulations, which limits the interpretation of experimental and simulated data and the application of enhanced sampling…

The data-driven recovery of the unknown governing equations of dynamical systems has recently received an increasing interest. However, the identification of governing equations remains challenging when dealing with noisy and partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Duong Nguyen , Said Ouala , Lucas Drumetz , Ronan Fablet

Despite the immense success of neural networks in modeling system dynamics from data, they often remain physics-agnostic black boxes. In the particular case of physical systems, they might consequently make physically inconsistent…

Variational dimensionality reduction methods are widely used for their accuracy, generative capabilities, and robustness. We introduce a unifying framework that generalizes both such as traditional and state-of-the-art methods. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Eslam Abdelaleem , Ilya Nemenman , K. Michael Martini

We propose a method for learning dynamical systems from high-dimensional empirical data that combines variational autoencoders and (spatio-)temporal attention within a framework designed to enforce certain scientifically-motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kai Lagemann , Christian Lagemann , Sach Mukherjee

The limited extrapolative power of structure-based machine learning (ML) models is a critical bottleneck in chemical discovery, particularly for industrial R&D, where navigating uncharted chemical space to find next-generation materials or…

The complexity of real-world geophysical systems is often compounded by the fact that the observed measurements depend on hidden variables. These latent variables include unresolved small scales and/or rapidly evolving processes, partially…

Effective adaptation to distribution shifts in training data is pivotal for sustaining robustness in neural networks, especially when removing specific biases or outdated information, a process known as machine unlearning. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ling Han , Hao Huang , Dustin Scheinost , Mary-Anne Hartley , María Rodríguez Martínez

The prohibitive cost and low fidelity of experimental data in industry scale thermofluid systems limit the usefulness of pure data-driven machine learning methods. Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) strive to overcome this by embedding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-25 Ryno Laubscher , Pieter Rousseau

Modeling spatial heterogeneity and associated critical transitions remains a fundamental challenge in geography and environmental science. While conventional Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and deep learning models have improved…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sooyoung Lim , Zhenlong Li , Zi-Kui Liu

We introduce Teleodynamic Learning, a new paradigm for machine learning in which learning is not the minimization of a fixed objective, but the emergence and stabilization of functional organization under constraint. Inspired by living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Enrique ter Horst , Juan Diego Zambrano

Adversarial learning methods have been proposed for a wide range of applications, but the training of adversarial models can be notoriously unstable. Effectively balancing the performance of the generator and discriminator is critical,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Sam Toyer , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Effective properties of materials with random heterogeneous structures are typically determined by homogenising the mechanical quantity of interest in a window of observation. The entire problem setting encompasses the solution of a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Felipe Rocha , Simone Deparis , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

We present a new and improved method for simultaneous control of temperature and pressure in molecular dynamics simulations with periodic boundary conditions. The thermostat-barostat equations are build on our previously developed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

Probabilistic Boolean Networks (PBNs) have been previously proposed so as to gain insights into complex dy- namical systems. However, identification of large networks and of the underlying discrete Markov Chain which describes their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou , Diana Marculescu

We present and analyze a series of benchmark tests regarding the application of the immersed boundary (IB) method to viscoelastic flows through and around non-trivial, stationary geometries. The IB method is widely used for the simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-17 Cole Gruninger , Aaron Barrett , Fuhui Fang , M. Gregory Forest , Boyce E. Griffith

The information bottleneck (IB) problem is a widely studied framework in machine learning for extracting compressed features that are informative for downstream tasks. However, current approaches to solving the IB problem rely on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Amirmohammad Farzaneh , Osvaldo Simeone

Information Bottleneck (IB) is a generalization of rate-distortion theory that naturally incorporates compression and relevance trade-offs for learning. Though the original IB has been extensively studied, there has not been much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Thanh T. Nguyen , Jaesik Choi

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a mathematical framework for constructing robust numerical methods to study fluid-structure interaction in problems involving an elastic structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The IB formulation uses an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Yuanxun Bao , Aleksandar Donev , Boyce E. Griffith , David M. McQueen , Charles S. Peskin