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This tutorial gives a quick introduction to Variational Bayes (VB), also called Variational Inference or Variational Approximation, from a practical point of view. The paper covers a range of commonly used VB methods and an attempt is made…

Computation · Statistics 2021-03-03 Minh-Ngoc Tran , Trong-Nghia Nguyen , Viet-Hung Dao

With the increasing amount of data and use of computation in science, software has become an important component in many different domains. Computing is now being used more often and in more aspects of scientific work including data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-12-17 David Koop , Juliana Freire , Claudio T. Silva

Despite the growing availability of tools designed to support scholarly knowledge extraction and organization, many researchers still rely on manual methods, sometimes due to unfamiliarity with existing technologies or limited access to…

Solving complex real-world tasks requires cycles of actions and observations. This is particularly true in science, where tasks require many cycles of analysis, tool use, and experimentation. Language agents are promising for automating…

The evolving landscape of scientific computing requires seamless transitions from experimental to production HPC environments for interactive workflows. This paper presents a structured transition pathway developed at OLCF that bridges the…

Social and behavioral scientists increasingly aim to study how humans interact, collaborate, and make decisions alongside artificial intelligence. However, the experimental infrastructure for such work remains underdeveloped: (1) few…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Crystal Qian , Vivian Tsai , Michael Behr , Nada Hussein , Léo Laugier , Nithum Thain , Lucas Dixon

Autonomous laboratories promise to accelerate discovery by coupling learning algorithms with robotic experimentation, yet adoption remains limited by fragmented software that separates high-level planning from low-level execution. Here we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jing Gao , Junhan Chang , Haohui Que , Yanfei Xiong , Shixiang Zhang , Xianwei Qi , Zhen Liu , Jun-Jie Wang , Qianjun Ding , Xinyu Li , Ziwei Pan , Qiming Xie , Zhuang Yan , Junchi Yan , Linfeng Zhang

This paper presents an environment for solving Prolog problems which has been implemented as a module for the virtual laboratory VILAB. During the problem solving processes the learners get fast adaptive feedback. As a result analysing the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Erik Braun , Rainer Luetticke , Ingo Gloeckner , Hermann Helbig

Virtual laboratories are the new online educational trend for communicating to students practical skills of science. In this paper we report on a comparison of techniques for familiarizing distance learning students with a 3D virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Evgenia Paxinou , Vasilis Zafeiropoulos , Athanasios Sypsas , Chairi Kiourt , Dimitris Kalles

The existing approaches for scientific workflows composition face the problems of domain knowledge integration. By this paper we summarize the results, which have been elaborated and implemented during the 2-year research concerning to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Pavel A. Smirnov , Sergey V. Kovalchuk , Alexander V. Boukhanovsky

Advanced scientific user facilities, such as next generation X-ray light sources and self-driving laboratories, are revolutionizing scientific discovery by automating routine tasks and enabling rapid experimentation and characterizations.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-03 Aikaterini Vriza , Michael H. Prince , Tao Zhou , Henry Chan , Mathew J. Cherukara

With the advances in e-Sciences and the growing complexity of scientific analyses, more and more scientists and researchers are relying on workflow systems for process coordination, derivation automation, provenance tracking, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-08-27 Yong Zhao , Ioan Raicu , Ian Foster

Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cells (AIVCs) aim to learn executable, decision-relevant models of cell state from multimodal, multiscale measurements. Recent studies have introduced single-cell and spatial foundation models, improved…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Chengpeng Hu , Calvin Yu-Chian Chen

In this short note we propose using agentic swarms of virtual labs as a model of an AI Science Community. In this paradigm, each particle in the swarm represents a complete virtual laboratory instance, enabling collective scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ulisses Braga-Neto

Virtual reality (VR) offers immersive visualization and intuitive interaction. We leverage VR to enable any biomedical professional to deploy a deep learning (DL) model for image classification. While DL models can be powerful tools for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Kevin C. VanHorn , Meyer Zinn , Murat Can Cobanoglu

The rapid advancements in Generative AI and Large Language Models promise to transform the way research is conducted, potentially offering unprecedented opportunities to augment scholarly workflows. However, effectively integrating AI into…

Scientific discovery is a complex cognitive process that has driven human knowledge and technological progress for centuries. While artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant advances in automating aspects of scientific reasoning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Chandan K Reddy , Parshin Shojaee

Scientific user facilities, such as synchrotron beamlines, are equipped with a wide array of hardware and software tools that require a codebase for human-computer-interaction. This often necessitates developers to be involved to establish…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shray Mathur , Noah van der Vleuten , Kevin Yager , Esther Tsai

Domain experts are increasingly employing machine learning to solve their domain-specific problems. This article presents six key challenges that a domain expert faces in transforming their problem into a computational workflow, and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bentley James Oakes , Michalis Famelis , Houari Sahraoui