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Loss functions are at the heart of deep learning, shaping how models learn and perform across diverse tasks. They are used to quantify the difference between predicted outputs and ground truth labels, guiding the optimization process to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Omar Elharrouss , Yasir Mahmood , Yassine Bechqito , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Elarbi Badidi , Jamal Riffi , Hamid Tairi

We refine the OrbNet model to accurately predict energy, forces, and other response properties for molecules using a graph neural-network architecture based on features from low-cost approximated quantum operators in the symmetry-adapted…

Energy estimation is critical to impact identification on aerospace composites, where low-velocity impacts can induce internal damage that is undetectable at the surface. Current methodologies for energy prediction are often constrained by…

We develop a novel data-driven approach to the inverse problem of classical statistical mechanics: given experimental data on the collective motion of a classical many-body system, how does one characterise the free energy landscape of that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-01 Peter Yatsyshin , Serafim Kalliadasis , Andrew B. Duncan

In this chapter, we discuss recent advances and new opportunities through methods of machine learning for the field of classical density functional theory, dealing with the equilibrium properties of thermal nano- and micro-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-12 Alessandro Simon , Martin Oettel

The average energy curvature as a function of the particle number is a molecule-specific quantity, which measures the deviation of a given functional from the exact conditions of density functional theory (DFT). Related to the lack of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Alberto Fabrizio , Benjamin Meyer , Clemence Corminboeuf

One of the obstacles hindering the scaling-up of the initial successes of machine learning in practical engineering applications is the dependence of the accuracy on the size of the database that "drives" the algorithms. Incorporating the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Wei Li , Martin Z. Bazant , Juner Zhu

In machine learning and statistical modeling, the mean square or absolute error is commonly used as an error metric, also called a "loss function." While effective in reducing the average error, this approach may fail to address localized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 John M. Hanna , Hugues Talbot , Irene E. Vignon-Clementel

This paper proposes a new way to learn Physics-Informed Neural Network loss functions using Generalized Additive Models. We apply our method by meta-learning parametric partial differential equations, PDEs, on Burger's and 2D Heat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Michail Koumpanakis , Ricardo Vilalta

Performative prediction is an emerging paradigm in machine learning that addresses scenarios where the model's prediction may induce a shift in the distribution of the data it aims to predict. Current works in this field often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Guangzheng Zhong , Yang Liu , Jiming Liu

Power flow analysis plays a critical role in the control and operation of power systems. The high computational burden of traditional solution methods led to a shift towards data-driven approaches, exploiting the availability of digital…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Victor Eeckhout , Hossein Fani , Md Umar Hashmi , Geert Deconinck

Probabilistic models can be defined by an energy function, where the probability of each state is proportional to the exponential of the state's negative energy. This paper considers a generalization of energy-based models in which the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-25 Jan Humplik , Gašper Tkačik

Machine learning is employed to build an energy density functional for self-bound nuclear systems for the first time. By learning the kinetic energy as a functional of the nucleon density alone, a robust and accurate orbital-free density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-21 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

The electronic density of states (DOS) provides information regarding the distribution of electronic energy levels in a material, and can be used to approximate its optical and electronic properties and therefore guide computational…

This review is a tutorial for scientists interested in the problem of protein structure prediction, particularly those interested in using coarse-grained molecular dynamics models that are optimized using lessons learned from the energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-06 N. P. Schafer , B. L. Kim , W. Zheng , P. G. Wolynes

The ensemble average of physical properties of molecules is closely related to the distribution of molecular conformations, and sampling such distributions is a fundamental challenge in physics and chemistry. Traditional methods like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Liya Guo , Zun Wang , Chang Liu , Junzhe Li , Pipi Hu , Yi Zhu

A system responding to a stochastic driving signal can be interpreted as computing, by means of its dynamics, an implicit model of the environmental variables. The system's state retains information about past environmental fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-09 Susanne Still , David A. Sivak , Anthony J. Bell , Gavin E. Crooks

We propose a methodology to generate hybrid machine learning models for the potential energy surface trained simultaneously on data from ab initio electronic structure calculations and on thermodynamic and/or structural observables from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-19 Pablo Peña-Cano , Pablo M. Piaggi

The aim of this paper is to determine lost works in a molecular engine and compare results with macro (classical) heat engines. Firstly, irreversible thermodynamics are reviewed for macro and molecular cycles. Secondly, irreversible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-09 Umberto Lucia , Emin Açıkkalp

There is a growing consensus that solutions to complex science and engineering problems require novel methodologies that are able to integrate traditional physics-based modeling approaches with state-of-the-art machine learning (ML)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Jared Willard , Xiaowei Jia , Shaoming Xu , Michael Steinbach , Vipin Kumar