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: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
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: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:2607. 27077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.
By Nicolas B\'ereux, Aur\'elien Decelle, Cyril Furtlehner, Beatriz Seoane
Neural Transport Nested Sampling (NTNS) is a new sampling algorithm that merges nested sampling with neural flow-based methods to sample from Boltzmann distributions of molecular systems. It employs a flow-matching velocity as the drift in a Metropolis–Hastings corrected Langevin kernel within a nested sampling loop, requiring only target energy evaluations and enabling scalable estimation of the full partition function for high-dimensional particle systems. Benchmarks on Lennard–Jones clusters up to 55 particles show NTNS reduces interatomic distance and energy Wasserstein errors by more than an order of magnitude compared to leading neural baselines, while also providing a calibrated, temperature-resolved partition function estimate that captures phase structure from a single run.
By David Yallup, Will Handley
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: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
arXiv:2602. 21565v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample diverse candidates in proportion to a reward function, making them well-suited for scientific discovery, where exploring multiple promising solutions is crucial.
By Seokwon Yoon, Youngbin Choi, Seunghyuk Cho, Seungbeom Lee, MoonJeong Park, Dongwoo Kim
arXiv:2510.03095v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Diffusion- and flow-based generative models have recently demonstrated strong performance in protein backbone generation tasks, offering unpreceden...
By Liyang Xie, Haoran Zhang, Zhendong Wang, Wesley Tansey, Mingyuan Zhou
arXiv:2607. 19332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models have undergone many generations of evolution, from VAEs/GANs to diffusion/flow matching.
By Chirag Vashist, Ke Li
The paper introduces Langevin simulated bifurcation (LSB), a fast, parallel Boltzmann sampler that matches the accuracy of sequential MCMC methods. It also proposes conditional expectation matching (CEM), an efficient technique for estimating the effective temperature of samples from energy‑based models with conditional independence. Building on these, the authors develop sampler adaptive learning (SAL), which adjusts the model temperature to align with the distribution produced by LSB, enabling efficient training of semi‑restricted Boltzmann machines (SRBMs) and outperforming conventional methods on synthetic spin‑glass datasets.
By Kentaro Kubo, Hayato Goto