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:2602. 03729v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sampling from unnormalized probability densities is a central challenge in computational science.
By Henrik Schopmans, Christopher von Klitzing, Pascal Friederich
arXiv:2608. 17450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) is computationally challenging because it requires expectations whose exact evaluation is generally intractable.
By Kaiji Sekimoto, Muneki Yasuda
arXiv:2605. 31498v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A long standing challenge in computational chemistry and biophysics is efficiently sampling the Boltzmann distribution of molecules.
By Daniel Pe\~naherrera, Rishal Aggarwal, David Ryan Koes
arXiv:2601. 21026v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sampling configurations at thermodynamic equilibrium is a central challenge in statistical physics.
By Louis Grenioux, Maxence Noble
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.
By Marylou Gabri\'e
Efficient sampling of molecular systems at thermodynamic equilibrium is a hallmark challenge in statistical physics. This challenge has driven the development of Boltzmann Generators (BGs), which allow rapid generation of uncorrelated equilibrium samples by combining a generative model with exact likelihoods and an importance sampling correction.
arXiv:2606. 27361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient sampling of molecular systems at thermodynamic equilibrium is a hallmark challenge in statistical physics.
By Danyal Rehman, Charlie B. Tan, Yoshua Bengio, Avishek Joey Bose, Alexander Tong
arXiv:2505. 11635v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world tasks, from associative memory to symbolic reasoning, benefit from discrete, structured representations that standard continuous latent models can struggle to express.
By Nikhil Kapasi, Mohamed Elfouly, William Whitehead, Luke Theogarajan
arXiv:2607. 15682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling from an unnormalized Boltzmann density requires proposals that move probability mass globally while retaining enough path-probability information for statistical correction.
By Moxian Qian
arXiv:2606. 29110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in flow-based generative modeling has led to models that output high-quality samples while using only a small number of function evaluations.
By RuiKang OuYang, Hanlin Yu, Xinyue Ai, Yutong He, Nicholas M. Boffi, Pradeep Ravikumar, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Max Simchowitz, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Omar Chehab
arXiv:2607. 00170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thermodynamic computing devices based on the Ising model show great promise for low-power AI inference and edge computing, but scalable methods for training large models for such hardware remain limited.
By Andrew G. Moore