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This contribution introduces a neural-network-based approach to discover meaningful transition pathways underlying complex biomolecular transformations in coherence with the committor function. The proposed path-committor-consistent…

The graph transformation approach is a recently proposed method for computing mean first passage times, rates, and committor probabilities for kinetic transition networks. Here we compare the performance to existing linear algebra methods,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jacob D. Stevenson , David J. Wales

Graph transformation formalisms have proven to be suitable tools for the modelling of chemical reactions. They are well established in theoretical studies and increasingly also in practical applications in chemistry. The latter is made…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jakob L. Andersen , Rolf Fagerberg , Juri Kolčák , Christophe V. F. P. Laurent , Daniel Merkle , Nikolai Nøjgaard

We propose a novel approach for computing committor functions, which describe transitions of a stochastic process between metastable states. The committor function satisfies a backward Kolmogorov equation, and in typical high-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Yian Chen , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Michael Lindsey

For a transition between two stable states, the committor is the probability that the dynamics leads to one stable state before the other. It can be estimated from trajectory data by minimizing an expression for the transition rate that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Jonathan Weare , Aaron R. Dinner

Computational scientists have long been developing a diverse portfolio of methodologies to characterise condensed matter systems. Most of the descriptors resulting from these efforts are ultimately based on the spatial configurations of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 An Wang , Gabriele C. Sosso

In this note we propose a method based on artificial neural network to study the transition between states governed by stochastic processes. In particular, we aim for numerical schemes for the committor function, the central object of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Yuehaw Khoo , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying

Constructing appropriate representations of molecules lies at the core of numerous tasks such as material science, chemistry and drug designs. Recent researches abstract molecules as attributed graphs and employ graph neural networks (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jianwen Chen , Shuangjia Zheng , Ying Song , Jiahua Rao , Yuedong Yang

The Adaptive Multilevel Splitting algorithm is a very powerful and versatile iterative method to estimate the probability of rare events, based on an interacting particle systems. In an other article, in a so-called idealized setting, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Ludovic Goudenège , Loic Tudela

We show how the Equation-Free approach for mutliscale computations can be exploited to extract, in a computational strict and systematic way the emergent dynamical attributes, from detailed large-scale microscopic stochastic models, of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Konstantinos G. Spiliotis , Constantinos I. Siettos

This paper proposes a new method based on neural networks for computing the high-dimensional committor functions that satisfy Fokker-Planck equations. Instead of working with partial differential equations, the new method works with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Haoya Li , Yuehaw Khoo , Yinuo Ren , Lexing Ying

In the study of stochastic systems, the committor function describes the probability that a system starting from an initial configuration $x$ will reach a set $B$ before a set $A$. This paper introduces an efficient and interpretable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-13 D. Aristoff , M. Johnson , G. Simpson , R. J. Webber

The development of enhanced sampling methods has greatly extended the scope of atomistic simulations, allowing long-time phenomena to be studied with accessible computational resources. Many such methods rely on the identification of an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Luigi Bonati , GiovanniMaria Piccini , Michele Parrinello

As computational chemistry methods evolve, dynamic effects have been increasingly recognized to govern chemical reaction pathways in both organic and inorganic systems. Here, we introduce a committor-based workflow that integrates a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Radu A. Talmazan , Christophe Chipot

Embedding networks into a fixed dimensional feature space, while preserving its essential structural properties is a fundamental task in graph analytics. These feature vectors (graph descriptors) are used to measure the pairwise similarity…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Zohair Raza Hassan , Mudassir Shabbir , Imdadullah Khan , Waseem Abbas

These lecture notes cover basic automata-theoretic concepts and logical formalisms for the modeling and verification of concurrent and distributed systems. Many of these concepts naturally extend the classical automata and logics over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benedikt Bollig , Paul Gastin

The efficiency of atomic simulations of materials and molecules can rapidly deteriorate when large free energy barriers exist between local minima. We propose smooth basin classification, a universal method to define reaction coordinates…

Transformers, adapted from natural language processing, are emerging as a leading approach for graph representation learning. Contemporary graph transformers often treat nodes or edges as separate tokens. This approach leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zihan Pengmei , Zimu Li , Chih-chan Tien , Risi Kondor , Aaron R. Dinner

We consider regularly varying random vectors. Our goal is to estimate in a non-parametric way some characteristics related to conditioning on an extreme event, like the tail dependence coefficient. We introduce a quasi-spectral…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-26 Rafał Kulik , Zhigang Tong

Graph simulation (using graph schemata or data guides) has been successfully proposed as a technique for adding structure to semistructured data. Design patterns for description (such as meta-classes and homomorphisms between schema…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christoph Koch