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Single molecule pulling experiments provide information about interactions in biomolecules that cannot be obtained by any other method. However, the reconstruction of the molecule's free energy profile from the experimental data is still a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Oliver Braun , Andreas Hanke , Udo Seifert

A family of fast sampling methods is introduced here for molecular simulations of systems having rugged free energy landscapes. The methods represent a generalization of a strategy consisting of adjusting a model for the free energy as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Pablo F. Zubieta Rico , Juan J. de Pablo

We introduce a simple enhanced sampling approach for the calculation of free energy differences and barriers along a one-dimensional reaction coordinate. First, a small number of short nonequilibrium simulations are carried out along the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Kristof M. Bal

As robotic systems move from highly structured environments to open worlds, incorporating uncertainty from dynamics learning or state estimation into the control pipeline is essential for robust performance. In this paper we present a…

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Quantum Monte Carlo coupled with neural network wavefunctions has shown success in computing ground states of quantum many-body systems. Existing optimization approaches compute the energy by sampling local energy from an explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Xuan Zhang , Shenglong Xu , Shuiwang Ji

Umbrella sampling is an efficient method for the calculation of free energy changes of a system along well-defined reaction coordinates. However, when multiple parallel channels along the reaction coordinate or hidden barriers in directions…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-16 Mingjun Yang , Lijiang Yang , Yiqin Gao , Hao Hu

We introduce the Free Energy Manifold (FEM), a score-trained conditional energy model specialized for inference in hybrid Bayesian networks with discrete and continuous variables. FEM represents each conditional factor as an energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Cheol Young Park , Shou Matsumoto

We investigate the dynamics of an inertial active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle suspended in a non-Markovian environment. The particle is additionally subjected to external forces, such as harmonic confinement and a magnetic field. Motivated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Sanju S Pillai , M Muhsin , M Sahoo

Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a flexible control framework that can reason about non-smooth dynamics and cost functions. Recently, significant work has focused on the use of machine learning to improve the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots

Diffusion models are a class of probabilistic generative models that have been widely used as a prior for image processing tasks like text conditional generation and inpainting. We demonstrate that these models can be adapted to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Marc Finzi , Anudhyan Boral , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Fei Sha , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Using the scheme of mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics, we construct the one- and two- particle Fokker-Planck equations for a system of interacting Brownian particles. By means of these equations we derive the corresponding balance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Mayorga , L. Romero-Salazar , J. M. Rubi

The present paper proposes an adaptive biasing potential for the computation of free energy landscapes. It is motivated by statistical learning arguments and unifies the tasks of biasing the molecular dynamics to escape free energy wells…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 I. Bilionis , P. S. Koutsourelakis

A promising method for calculating free energy differences Delta F is to generate non-equilibrium data via ``fast-growth'' simulations or experiments -- and then use Jarzynski's equality. However, a difficulty with using Jarzynski's…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Marty Ytreberg , Daniel M. Zuckerman

The time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation is a key model for characterizing anomalous diffusion, stochastic transport, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications in finance, chaotic dynamics, optical physics, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Neetu Garg , Varsha R

We explore how much knowing a parametric restriction on propensity scores improves semiparametric efficiency bounds in the potential outcome framework. For stratified propensity scores, considered as a parametric model, we derive explicit…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-07-04 Haruki Kono

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in generation problems over various domains including images, videos, text, and audio. A practical bottleneck of diffusion models is their sampling speed, due to the repeated evaluation of…

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Model-based reinforcement learning is attractive for sequential decision-making because it explicitly estimates reward and transition models and then supports planning through simulated rollouts. In offline settings with hidden confounding,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Nishanth Venkatesh , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We present a new approach to analyze homogeneous nucleation based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The starting point is the formulation of a Gibbs equation for the variations of the entropy of the system, whose state is characterized by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reguera Lopez , J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

Model-based reinforcement learning has the potential to be more sample efficient than model-free approaches. However, existing model-based methods are vulnerable to model bias, which leads to poor generalization and asymptotic performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Tung-Long Vuong , Kenneth Tran

Exploring the free-energy landscape along reaction coordinates or system parameters $\lambda$ is central to many studies of high-dimensional model systems in physics, e.g. large molecules or spin glasses. In simulations this usually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-05 Viveca Lindahl , Jack Lidmar , Berk Hess