arXiv Machine Learning

Leveraging generative models to assist Monte Carlo sampling

arXiv:2608. 07648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sampling high-dimensional probability distributions is a central task in scientific computing, with applications ranging from Bayesian inference to statistical physics and molecular simulation.

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Jul 29

Equilibrium Training of Energy-Based Models with Parallel Trajectory Tempering

Energy-Based Models (EBMs) provide an interpretable framework for generative modeling of scientific data, but poor Markov Chain Monte Carlo mixing often limits their reliability. We introduce a training algorithm based on Parallel Trajectory Tempering (PTT), which exploits the continuity of the optimization path to maintain equilibrium sampling throughout learning.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Generative Nested Sampling of Atomistic Thermodynamic Landscapes

The paper introduces NS‑Flows, a flow‑based nested sampling method that replaces Markov‑chain updates with a conditional normalizing flow trained on live sets. By applying this technique to a Lennard‑Jones particle system, the authors achieve over two orders of magnitude fewer energy evaluations and a roughly one‑third reduction in wall‑clock time compared to traditional nested sampling. The study also shows that the flow’s generation efficiency varies non‑monotonically along the annealing trajectory, providing a diagnostic of the system’s internal mode complexity and identifying liquid‑like ensembles as the most challenging for current flow architectures.

By Alessandro Coretti, Nico Unglert, Sebastian Falkner, Georg K. H. Madsen, Christoph Dellago
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Enhanced Diffusion Sampling: Efficient Rare Event Sampling and Free Energy Calculation with Diffusion Models

arXiv:2602. 16634v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rare-event sampling problem has long been the central limiting factor in molecular dynamics (MD), especially in biomolecular simulation.

By Yu Xie, Ludwig Winkler, Lixin Sun, Sarah Lewis, Adam E. Foster, Jos\'e Jim\'enez Luna, Tim Hempel, Michael Gastegger, Yaoyi Chen, Iryna Zaporozhets, Cecilia Clementi, Christopher M. Bishop, Frank No\'e
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Quenched Ensemble Sampling

arXiv:2609.15894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Some of the sharpest challenges in sampling from the energy functions of physical systems arise at phase transitions, where the density of states cha...

By David Yallup
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

Gradient-free Riemannian Langevin Sampler

We address the problem of efficiently sampling multimodal probability distributions, where standard Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods often suffer from poor mixing and mode trapping. To mitigate these issues, we propose Gradient-free Riemannian Langevin Sampler (GRiLS), a novel proposal that improves exploration without requiring gradient evaluations of the target density.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Factorizable Normalizing Flows for parameter-dependent density morphing

arXiv:2606. 30489v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Normalizing Flows excel at modeling a single fixed density, yet many problems across the sciences, such as high energy physics, instead require modeling how that density deforms as a function of continuous parameters: the strength of a physical effect, a calibration constant, or a source of systematic uncertainty.

By Davide Valsecchi, Mauro Doneg\`a, Rainer Wallny