arXiv Machine Learning

Neural Transport Nested Sampling

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.

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
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Autoregressive Boltzmann Generators

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 Machine Learning
Aug 10

Sampling via Stochastic Interpolants by Langevin-based Velocity and Initialization Estimation in Flow ODEs

arXiv:2601. 08527v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a novel method for sampling from unnormalized Boltzmann densities based on a probability flow ordinary differential equation (ODE) derived from linear stochastic interpolants.

By Chenguang Duan, Yuling Jiao, Gabriele Steidl, Christian Wald, Jerry Zhijian Yang, Ruizhe Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

Autoregressive Boltzmann Generators

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 Machine Learning
Jun 30

Few-Step Boltzmann Generators via Scalable Likelihood Flow Maps

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 Machine Learning
Aug 28

Generative Monte Carlo Sampling for Constant-Cost Particle Transport

Generative Monte Carlo (GMC) is a new particle transport simulation method that embeds generative AI into solving the linear Boltzmann equation. By treating cell transmission as a conditional generation task, neural networks trained with conditional flow matching produce particle exit states—position, direction, and path length—without simulating scattering histories. GMC generalizes across materials using optical coordinate scaling, matches standard Monte Carlo’s statistical accuracy and convergence, and achieves constant‑cost per cell transmission, offering significant speedups in optically thick regimes.

By Joseph A. Farmer, Aidan Murray, Johannes Krotz, Ryan G. McClarren