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The large amounts of data from molecular biology and neuroscience have lead to a renewed interest in the inverse Ising problem: how to reconstruct parameters of the Ising model (couplings between spins and external fields) from a number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-08-13 H. Chau Nguyen , Johannes Berg

Boltzmann Generators have emerged as a promising machine learning tool for generating samples from equilibrium distributions of molecular systems using Normalizing Flows and importance weighting. Recently, Flow Matching has helped speed up…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Lorenz Vaitl , Leon Klein

We perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the crystallization process in binary Lennard-Jones systems during heating and cooling to investigate atomic-scale crystallization kinetics in glass-forming materials. For the cooling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Minglei Wang , Kai Zhang , Zhusong Li , Yanhui Liu , Jan Schroers , Mark D. Shattuck , Corey S. O'Hern

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

In this paper, we describe an experiment performed at the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers and dedicated to an optical measurement of the Boltzmann constant. With the proposed innovative technique, determining comes down to an ordinary…

A new approach to maximum likelihood learning of discrete graphical models and RBM in particular is introduced. Our method, Perturb and Descend (PD) is inspired by two ideas (I) perturb and MAP method for sampling (II) learning by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Russell Greiner , Brendan Frey

Theoretical understanding of how deep neural network (DNN) extracts features from input images is still unclear, but it is widely believed that the extraction is performed hierarchically through a process of coarse-graining. It reminds us…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-16 Satoshi Iso , Shotaro Shiba , Sumito Yokoo

We propose a novel modular inference approach combining two different generative models -- generative adversarial networks (GAN) and normalizing flows -- to approximate the posterior distribution of physics-based Bayesian inverse problems…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Agnimitra Dasgupta , Dhruv V Patel , Deep Ray , Erik A Johnson , Assad A Oberai

The deep extension of the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), known as the deep Boltzmann machine (DBM), is an expressive family of machine learning models which can serve as compact representations of complex probability distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Haik Manukian , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Sampling from multimodal distributions is a central challenge in Bayesian inference and machine learning. In light of hardness results for sampling -- classical MCMC methods, even with tempering, can suffer from exponential mixing times --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-23 Holden Lee , Matheau Santana-Gijzen

This note introduces a method for sampling Ising models with mixed boundary conditions. As an application of annealed importance sampling and the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, the method adopts a sequence of intermediate distributions that keeps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Lexing Ying

Stochastic generators are useful for estimating climate impacts on various sectors. Projecting climate risk in various sectors, e.g. energy systems, requires generators that are accurate (statistical resemblance to ground-truth), reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Emmanuel Balogun , Ram Rajagopal , Arun Majumdar

Conventional lattice Boltzmann models for the simulation of fluid dynamics are restricted by an error in the stress tensor that is negligible only for vanishing flow velocity and at a singular value of the temperature. To that end, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 M. H. Saadat , B. Dorschner , I. V. Karlin

The pursuit of high optical depth and long coherence time in atomic ensembles faces a fundamental thermodynamic constraint: heating enhances light-atom coupling via increased density but degrades coherence through thermal broadening, while…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Changhao Cheng , Jinxian Guo

In this work, we analyze the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of a class of neural networks known as Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) in the context of unsupervised learning. We show how the network is described as a discrete Markov…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Domingos S. P. Salazar

The design of film cooling systems relies heavily on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, which solve for mean quantities and model all turbulent scales. Most turbulent heat flux models, which are based on isotropic diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-09 Pedro M. Milani , Julia Ling , John K. Eaton

In this work, an extension to the standard iterative Boltzmann inversion (IBI) method to derive coarse-grained potentials is proposed. It is shown that the inclusion of target data from multiple states yields a less state-dependent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-08 Timothy C. Moore , Christopher R. Iacovella , Clare McCabe

We present a pseudo-reversible normalizing flow method for efficiently generating samples of the state of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) with different initial distributions. The primary objective is to construct an accurate and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Minglei Yang , Pengjun Wang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Yanzhao Cao , Guannan Zhang

Inverse modeling of fluid flow through porous soils and reservoir rocks enables accurate determination of permeability and seepage properties critical for applications such as contaminant filtration, stability assessments, and optimization…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Qiuyu Wang , Krishna Kumar

An analytically tractable model is introduced which exhibits both, a glass--like freezing transition, and a collection of double--well configurations in its zero--temperature potential energy landscape. The latter are generally believed to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Reimer Kuehn