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Learning to sample from complex unnormalized distributions is a fundamental challenge in computational physics and machine learning. While score-based and variational methods have achieved success in continuous domains, extending them to…

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The recently developed bag-of-paths (BoP) framework consists in setting a Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution on all feasible paths of a graph. This probability distribution favors short paths over long ones, with a free parameter (the temperature…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimäki , Marco Saerens

Coarse-graining (CG) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of larger systems and longer timescales that are otherwise infeasible with atomistic models. Machine learning potentials (MLPs), with their capacity to capture many-body…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Weilong Chen , Franz Görlich , Paul Fuchs , Julija Zavadlav

Restricted Boltzmann Machines are simple and powerful generative models that can encode any complex dataset. Despite all their advantages, in practice the trainings are often unstable and it is difficult to assess their quality because the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Nicolas Béreux , Aurélien Decelle , Cyril Furtlehner , Beatriz Seoane

Molecular dynamics is the primary computational method by which modern structural biology explores macromolecule structure and function. Boltzmann generators have been proposed as an alternative to molecular dynamics, by replacing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Congzhou M. Sha , Jian Wang , Nikolay V. Dokholyan

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is one of the simplest generative neural networks capable of learning input distributions. Despite its simplicity, the analysis of its performance in learning from the training data is only well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yizhou Xu , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are endowed with the universal power of modeling (binary) joint distributions. Meanwhile, as a result of their confining network structure, training RBMs confronts less difficulties (compared with more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Sai Zhang

Optimal transport has found widespread applications in signal processing and machine learning. Among its many equivalent formulations, optimal transport seeks to reconstruct a random variable/vector with a prescribed distribution at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jun Chen , Jia Wang , Ruibin Li , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Huan Liu , Yuanhao Yu

The Boltzmann distribution of a protein provides a roadmap to all of its functional states. Normalizing flows are a promising tool for modeling this distribution, but current methods are intractable for typical pharmacological targets; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Joseph C. Kim , David Bloore , Karan Kapoor , Jun Feng , Ming-Hong Hao , Mengdi Wang

Two recent landmark experiments have performed Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) with a non-programmable linear interferometer and threshold detectors on up to 144 output modes (see Refs.~\onlinecite{zhong_quantum_2020,zhong2021phase}). Here we…

The kinetic Boltzmann equation models gas dynamics over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Simplified versions of the full Boltzmann collision operator, such as the classical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook and the closely related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 James A. Rossmanith , Preeti Sar

Coarse-grained (CG) models provide an effective route to reducing the complexity of molecular simulations (MD), but conventional approaches depend heavily on long all-atom MD trajectories to adequately sample configurational space. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Maximilian Stupp , P. S. Koutsourelakis

The connection between the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) formalism and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) is natural, as both give rise to a Boltzmann-like distribution with constraints enforced by Lagrange multipliers, which corresponds to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Vinit Singh , Rishabh Gupta , Manas Sajjan , Francoise Remacle , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are one of the fundamental building blocks of deep learning. Approximate maximum likelihood training of RBMs typically necessitates sampling from these models. In many training scenarios, computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Guillaume Desjardins , Heng Luo , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Sampling physical systems with rough energy landscapes is hindered by rare events and metastable trapping. While Boltzmann generators already offer a solution, their reliance on the reverse Kullback--Leibler divergence frequently induces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Guang Lin , Christian Moya , Di Qi , Xuda Ye

We extend the framework of Boltzmann machines to a network of complex-valued neurons with variable amplitudes, referred to as Complex Amplitude-Phase Boltzmann machine (CAP-BM). The model is capable of performing unsupervised learning on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-06 Zengyi Li , Friedrich T. Sommer

We propose a novel method to learn intractable distributions from their samples. The main idea is to use a parametric distribution model, such as a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), to approximate intractable distributions by minimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Chenqiu Zhao , Guanfang Dong , Anup Basu

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) have attracted a lot of attention of late, as one the principle building blocks of deep networks. Training RBMs remains problematic however, because of the intractibility of their partition function. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-12-17 Guillaume Desjardins , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution of molecular systems is a long-standing challenge. Recently, instead of generating long molecular dynamics simulations, generative machine learning methods such as normalizing flows have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Henrik Schopmans , Pascal Friederich

The Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is a single-hidden layer feedforward neural network (SLFN) learning algorithm that can learn effectively and quickly. The ELM training phase assigns the input weights and bias randomly and does not change…

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