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Throughout computational science, there is a growing need to utilize the continual improvements in raw computational horsepower to achieve greater physical fidelity through scale-bridging over brute-force increases in the number of mesh…

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The optimization of atomic structures plays a pivotal role in understanding and designing materials with desired properties. However, conventional computational methods often struggle with the formidable task of navigating the vast…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Peder Lyngby , Casper Larsen , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

In recent years, several particle-based stochastic simulation algorithms (PSSA) have been developed to study the spatially resolved dynamics of biochemical networks at a molecular scale. A challenge all these approaches have to address is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-07-04 Thorsten Prüstel , Martin Meier-Schellersheim

Numerous molecular systems, including solutions, proteins, and composite materials, can be modeled using mixed-resolution representations, of which the quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach has become the most widely used.…

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Rational design of compounds with specific properties requires conceptual understanding and fast evaluation of molecular properties throughout chemical compound space (CCS) -- the huge set of all potentially stable molecules. Recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko

A steadily growing computational power is employed to perform molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules, which represents at the same time an immense opportunity and a formidable challenge. In fact, large amounts of data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-18 Margherita Mele , Roberto Covino , Raffaello Potestio

The ability to control complex networks is of crucial importance across a wide range of applications in natural and engineering sciences. However, issues of both theoretical and numerical nature introduce fundamental limitations to…

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We present a new method aimed at improving the efficiency of component by component ionization modeling of intervening quasar absorption line systems. We carry out cloud-by-cloud, multiphase modeling making use of CLOUDY and Bayesian…

Applying Bayesian optimization in problems wherein the search space is unknown is challenging. To address this problem, we propose a systematic volume expansion strategy for the Bayesian optimization. We devise a strategy to guarantee that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-30 Huong Ha , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Thanh Nguyen , Hung Tran-The , Svetha Venkatesh

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful approach to sample-efficient optimization of black-box functions. However, in settings with very few function evaluations, a successful application of BO may require transferring information from…

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Discovery of the molecular candidates for applications in drug targets, biomolecular systems, catalysts, photovoltaics, organic electronics, and batteries, necessitates development of machine learning algorithms capable of rapid exploration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ayana Ghosh , Sergei V. Kalinin , Maxim A. Ziatdinov

The vastness of chemical space makes generalization a central challenge in the development of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). While MLIPs could enable large-scale atomistic simulations with near-quantum accuracy, their…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Michal Sanocki , Julija Zavadlav

Molecular simulations have assumed a paramount role in the fields of chemistry, biology, and material sciences, being able to capture the intricate dynamic properties of systems. Within this realm, coarse-grained (CG) techniques have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Daniele Angioletti , Stefano Raniolo , Vittorio Limongelli

One key factor that limits the predictive power of molecular dynamics simulations is the accuracy and transferability of the input force field. Force fields are challenged by heterogeneous environments, where electronic responses give rise…

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Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular paradigm for global optimization of expensive black-box functions, but there are many domains where the function is not completely a black-box. The data may have some known structure (e.g. symmetries)…

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We introduce a generalized machine learning framework to probabilistically parameterize upper-scale models in the form of nonlinear PDEs consistent with a continuum theory, based on coarse-grained atomistic simulation data of mechanical…

Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models have the potential for simulating large molecular complexes beyond what is possible with atomistic molecular dynamics. However, training accurate CG models remains a challenge. A widely used…

Data-based discovery of effective, coarse-grained (CG) models of high-dimensional dynamical systems presents a unique challenge in computational physics and particularly in the context of multiscale problems. The present paper offers a…

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