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Developing physics-based models for molecular simulation requires fitting many unknown parameters to diverse experimental datasets. Traditionally, this process is piecemeal and difficult to reproduce, leading to a fragmented landscape of…

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Machine learning potentials (MLPs) trained on accurate quantum chemical data can retain the high accuracy, while inflicting little computational demands. On the downside, they need to be trained for each individual system. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Marco Eckhoff , Markus Reiher

Machine learning has recently entered into the mainstream of coarse-grained (CG) molecular modeling and simulation. While a variety of methods for incorporating deep learning into these models exist, many of them involve training neural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Timothy D. Loose , Patrick G. Sahrmann , Thomas S. Qu , Gregory A. Voth

Coarse-graining has become an area of tremendous importance within many different research fields. For molecular simulation, coarse-graining bears the promise of finding simplified models such that long-time simulations of large-scale…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Feliks Nüske , Lorenzo Boninsegna , Cecilia Clementi

Coarse-grained models are a core computational tool in theoretical chemistry and biophysics. A judicious choice of a coarse-grained model can yield physical insight by isolating the essential degrees of freedom that dictate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Shriram Chennakesavalu , David J. Toomer , Grant M. Rotskoff

Coarse-Graining (CG) models are low resolution approximation of high resolution models, such as all-atomic (AA) models. An effective CG model is expected to reproduce equilibrium values of sufficient physical quantities of its AA model,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-10 Shijing Lu , Xin Zhou

We present a systematic coarse-graining (CG) strategy for many particle molecular systems based on cluster expansion techniques. We construct a hierarchy of coarse-grained Hamiltonians with interaction potentials consisting of two, three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-11 Anastasios Tsourtis , Vagelis Harmandaris , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

The training set of atomic configurations is key to the performance of any Machine Learning Force Field (MLFF) and, as such, the training set selection determines the applicability of the MLFF model for predictive molecular simulations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Gregory Fonseca , Igor Poltavsky , Valentin Vassilev-Galindo , Alexandre Tkatchenko

The accuracy and efficiency of a coarse-grained (CG) force field are pivotal for high-precision molecular simulations of large systems with complex molecules. We present an automated mapping and optimization framework for molecular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Zhixuan Zhong , Lifeng Xu , Jian Jiang

Molecular dynamics (MD) enables the study of physical systems with excellent spatiotemporal resolution but suffers from severe time-scale limitations. To address this, enhanced sampling methods have been developed to improve exploration of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Shams Mehdi , Zachary Smith , Lukas Herron , Ziyue Zou , Pratyush Tiwary

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a crucial technique for simulating biological systems, enabling the exploration of their dynamic nature and fostering an understanding of their functions and properties. To address exploration inefficiency,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-03 Shaoning Li , Yusong Wang , Mingyu Li , Jian Zhang , Bin Shao , Nanning Zheng , Jian Tang

Multiscale molecular modeling is widely applied in scientific research of molecular properties over large time and length scales. Two specific challenges are commonly present in multiscale modeling, provided that information between the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Jun Zhang , Xiaohan Lin , Weinan E , Yi Qin Gao

Coarse-graining or model reduction is a term describing a range of approaches used to extend the time-scale of molecular simulations by reducing the number of degrees of freedom. In the context of molecular simulation, standard…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Thomas Hudson , Xingjie Helen Li

We utilize connections between molecular coarse-graining approaches and implicit generative models in machine learning to describe a new framework for systematic molecular coarse-graining (CG). Focus is placed on the formalism encompassing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Aleksander E. P. Durumeric , Gregory A. Voth

We present an accurate machine learning (ML) model for atomistic simulations of carbon, constructed using the Gaussian approximation potential (GAP) methodology. The potential, named GAP-20, describes the properties of the bulk crystalline…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Patrick Rowe , Volker L Deringer , Piero Gasparotto , Gábor Csányi , Angelos Michaelides

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

In computational materials science, coarse-graining approaches often lack a priori uncertainty quantification (UQ) tools that estimate the accuracy of a reduced-order model before it is calibrated or deployed. This is especially the case in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Paul N. Patrone , Andrew M. Dienstfrey , Geoffrey B. McFadden

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide detailed insight into atomic-scale mechanisms but are inherently restricted to small spatio-temporal scales. Coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) techniques allow simulations of much larger…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Yangshuai Wang , Gabor Csanyi , Christoph Ortner

The use of external restraints is ubiquitous in advanced molecular simulation techniques. In general, restraints serve to reduce the configurational space that is available for sampling, thereby reducing the computational demands associated…

Predicting the adsorption affinity of a small molecule to a target surface is of importance to a range of fields, from catalysis to drug delivery and human safety, but a complex task to perform computationally when taking into account the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Ian Rouse , Vladimir Lobaskin