Generative models accelerate molecular dynamics by four orders of magnitude.
problem Femtosecond time steps limit access to slow molecular processes.
method Deep generative modeling framework that accelerates sampling.
result Quantitative characterization of equilibrium ensembles and dynamical relaxation processes.
LSS learns molecular trajectories from MD data.
problem Limited integration time steps in MD simulations.
method Three deep learning networks for slow collective variables, dynamics, and configuration reconstruction.
result Generates ultra-long synthetic folding trajectories.
New couplings improve understanding of molecular dynamics convergence.
problem Understanding convergence of Andersen dynamics in high dimensions.
method Presented couplings to obtain sharp convergence bounds in the Wasserstein sense.
result Sharp convergence bounds in the Wasserstein sense without global convexity.
Framework learns surrogates for molecular dynamics across multiple time-scales.
problem Stable molecular dynamics simulations require small time-steps, but long-time-scale moments need repeated simulations.
method Implicit Transfer Operator Learning with denoising diffusion probabilistic models and SE(3) equivariant architecture.
result Models can generate self-consistent stochastic dynamics across multiple time-scales.
Timewarp accelerates molecular dynamics by learning to simulate long timescales.
problem Efficiently simulating long timescales in molecular dynamics.
method Uses a normalizing flow to learn large time steps in Markov chain Monte Carlo.
result Generalizes to unseen small peptides, accelerating sampling.
Machine learning aids excited-state molecular dynamics studies.
problem Challenges in studying electronically excited states of molecules.
method Employing machine learning techniques for excited-state molecular dynamics.
result Highlight successes and challenges in machine learning for excited-state processes.
Molecular dynamics simulations are an important tool for describing the evolution of a chemical system with time. However, these simulations are inherently held back either by the prohibitive cost of accurate electronic structure theory computations or the limited accuracy of classical empirical force fields. Machine l…
RC flow learns molecular kinetics in low dimensions.
problem Discovering interpretable low-dimensional models of molecular kinetics.
method Normalizing flow for coordinate transformation and Brownian dynamics for kinetics approximation.
result Tractable and trainable model of reduced kinetics in continuous time and space.
Improved CG force-field learning from all-atom data.
problem Training accurate coarse-grained models from all-atom simulations is challenging.
method Optimized force mapping to improve statistical efficiency of force-field learning.
result Substantially improved CG force-fields can be learned from the same simulation data.
DenSNet learns electron densities for molecular dynamics, enabling accurate spectroscopic predictions.
problem Lack of accurate electronic observables in MLIPs for molecular dynamics.
method DenSNet uses SE(3)-equivariant neural networks to predict electron densities and total energy.
result DenSNet predicts infrared spectra with excellent agreement to experimental data.
New methods use machine learning to simulate rare transitions in molecular systems.
problem Simulating rare transitions between metastable states in molecular dynamics.
method Generative models and reinforcement learning for importance sampling.
result Efficiently generated transition paths linking metastable states.
New method uses normalizing flows to improve force fields for coarse-grained molecular dynamics.
problem Lack of reference atomistic forces makes force matching infeasible for MLCG force fields.
method Introduces noise-based kernels adapted to low-data regimes using normalizing flows.
result Flow-based kernels reduce local distortions while preserving global accuracy.
Develops active learning for scale-bridging simulations.
problem Quantitative predictions in nanoporous media and inertial confinement fusion.
method Active learning approach to optimize fine-scale simulations for coarse-scale hydrodynamics.
result Optimizes use of fine-scale simulations for coarse-scale predictions.
Machine learning generates coarse-grained force fields for molecular dynamics.
problem Creating thermodynamically consistent coarse-grained models for larger systems.
method Hybrid architecture using graph neural networks to learn molecular features.
result Framework reproduces thermodynamics for small biomolecular systems.
BoostMD accelerates molecular dynamics simulations by 8x with ML force fields.
problem Long inference times of ML force fields limit practical use in molecular dynamics.
method BoostMD uses previous time-step features to predict energies and forces, reducing complexity and computational cost.
result BoostMD achieves an 8-fold speedup and accurately samples the Boltzmann distribution.
RNN operators solve Newton's equations with large timesteps for molecular dynamics.
problem Solving Newton's equations of motion with large timesteps for molecular dynamics simulations.
method Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) operators to solve Newton's equations using past trajectory data.
result Significant speedup in molecular dynamics simulations with timesteps up to 4000 times larger.
A machine learning model captures non-Newtonian fluid dynamics from molecular details.
problem Creating accurate non-Newtonian fluid models from molecular data.
method Developed a machine learning framework that maps micro-scale polymer configurations to macro-scale fluid dynamics, preserving molecular fidelity.
result The deep non-Newtonian model (DeePN2) accurately predicts fluid behavior without empirical closures. The success of enhanced sampling molecular simulations that accelerate along collective variables (CVs) is predicated on the availability of variables coincident with the slow collective motions governing the long-time conformational dynamics of a system. It is challenging to intuit these slow CVs for all but the simpl…
AniDS improves molecular force field modeling by learning anisotropic noise.
problem Molecular force field modeling suffers from oversimplified assumptions about atomic motions.
method AniDS introduces anisotropic noise generation for better modeling of directional and structural variability.
result AniDS outperforms existing methods on benchmarks, achieving significant improvements in force prediction accuracy.
This review explores the use of machine learning in discovering collective variables for biomolecular dynamics.
problem Understanding the conformational dynamics and molecular recognition in biomolecules.
method Statistical analysis of high-dimensional spatiotemporal data generated from molecular dynamics simulations.
result Machine learning algorithms can be used to discover abstract collective variables that describe biomolecular dynamics.
Persistent homology provides a new, efficient molecular descriptor for protein dynamics.
problem Designing effective molecular descriptors for high-dimensional MD trajectories.
method Introduced masked Flood complex, a protein-tailored modification of simplicial complexes, for persistent homology.
result Persistent homology-based descriptors are competitive across protein dynamics tasks, including frame-level observable regression and MSM estimation.
Method learns molecular Hamiltonian for accurate electron dynamics predictions.
problem Predict electron dynamics in molecules using learned Hamiltonians.
method Combines linear statistical model with quantum Liouville equation time discretization.
result Predicted electron dynamics closely matches ground truth, even beyond training data.
Diffusion models simulate molecular dynamics with adjustable accuracy.
problem Simulating molecular dynamics with high accuracy and efficiency.
method Diffusion models as Euler-Maruyama integrators for Langevin dynamics, learning forces from static snapshots.
result Diffusion models generate molecular trajectories with temporal correlations similar to MD simulations.
Photo-induced processes are fundamental in nature, but accurate simulations are seriously limited by the cost of the underlying quantum chemical calculations, hampering their application for long time scales. Here we introduce a method based on machine learning to overcome this bottleneck and enable accurate photodynam…
A new ML method predicts long-time-step molecular dynamics, preserving symplectic and time-reversible properties.
problem Limited computational efficiency in long-time-step molecular dynamics simulations.
method Learning data-driven structure-preserving maps to generate long time-step classical dynamics.
result The method eliminates artifacts like lack of energy conservation and loss of equipartition.
MD-GAN learns long-time molecular behavior from short-time data with multi-particle input.
problem Accurately predicting long-time molecular dynamics from short-time data.
method Machine learning method (MD-GAN) that incorporates dynamics of multiple particles of molecules.
result Predicting diffusion with one-third of the training data length using multi-particle input.
SchNetPack 2.0 enhances atomistic machine learning with improved neural networks.
problem Improving atomistic machine learning methods and applications.
method Improved data pipeline, equivariant neural networks, PyTorch implementation, PyTorch Lightning, Hydra configuration framework.
result Easy extension and complex training tasks support.
MACE architecture outperforms alternatives in various molecular and materials science tasks.
problem Improving machine learning force fields for diverse molecular and materials science applications.
method Evaluation of MACE architecture on various datasets and tasks, demonstrating data efficiency and excellent performance.
result MACE architecture generally outperforms alternatives across a wide range of systems, including amorphous carbon, universal materials modelling, and organic chemistry.
Enhances diffusion-based sampling for molecular systems.
problem Inefficiency and thermodynamic mode miss in diffusion-based samplers for molecular systems.
method Introduces a sequential bias along collective variables (CVs) to encourage exploration and increase temperature in the projected space.
result Improves efficiency, mode discovery, and free energy estimation; first to demonstrate reactive sampling.
Computational chemists typically assay drug candidates by virtually screening compounds against crystal structures of a protein despite the fact that some targets, like the μ Opioid Receptor and other members of the GPCR family, traverse many non-crystallographic states. We discover new conformational states of μOR…
Inspired by the success of deep learning techniques in the physical and chemical sciences, we apply a modification of an autoencoder type deep neural network to the task of dimension reduction of molecular dynamics data. We can show that our time-lagged autoencoder reliably finds low-dimensional embeddings for high-dim…
We present a novel machine learning approach to understanding conformation dynamics of biomolecules. The approach combines kernel-based techniques that are popular in the machine learning community with transfer operator theory for analyzing dynamical systems in order to identify conformation dynamics based on molecula…
In this report, we present an unsupervised machine learning method for determining groups of molecular systems according to similarity in their dynamics or structures using Ward's minimum variance objective function. We first apply the minimum variance clustering to a set of simulated tripeptides using the information …
Machine learning is used to approximate the kinetic energy of one dimensional diatomics as a functional of the electron density. The functional can accurately dissociate a diatomic, and can be systematically improved with training. Highly accurate self-consistent densities and molecular forces are found, indicating the…
Machine learning has emerged as an invaluable tool in many research areas. In the present work, we harness this power to predict highly accurate molecular infrared spectra with unprecedented computational efficiency. To account for vibrational anharmonic and dynamical effects -- typically neglected by conventional quan…
New method combines deep learning and quantum mechanics for efficient molecular statistics.
problem Computational expense in extracting statistics from molecular systems.
method Adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo with Normalizing Flow and MLP for quantum accuracy.
result Rapid convergence to Boltzmann distribution and accurate thermodynamic observables.
GAGA accelerates 3D molecular generation by replacing long trajectories with Gaussian approximations.
problem High computational cost of long generative trajectories in 3D molecular generation.
method GAGA identifies a characteristic step where molecular data becomes sufficiently Gaussian, replacing the trajectory with a Gaussian approximation.
result Significant improvement in both generation quality and computational efficiency.
There is an increasing demand for computing the relevant structures, equilibria and long-timescale kinetics of biomolecular processes, such as protein-drug binding, from high-throughput molecular dynamics simulations. Current methods employ transformation of simulated coordinates into structural features, dimension red…
Energy-based diffusion models improve molecular sampling and simulation.
problem Inconsistency between diffusion model scores and equilibrium distributions.
method Fokker-Planck regularization to enforce consistency.
result Improved consistency and efficient sampling of biomolecular systems.
An image dataset of 10 different size molecules, where each molecule has 2,000 structural variants, is generated from the 2D cross-sectional projection of Molecular Dynamics trajectories. The purpose of this dataset is to provide a benchmark dataset for the increasing need of machine learning, deep learning and image p…
Chirality affects the curvature of molecular networks, influencing their shape and stability.
problem Understanding how chirality influences the curvature of molecular networks.
method Langevin dynamics simulations and constrained gradient optimization of square lattice networks.
result Linking chirality dictates the sign of Gaussian curvature in molecular chainmail networks.
A universal collection of 4 invariants improves neural network accuracy for molecular dynamics.
problem Improving accuracy of neural networks in molecular dynamics.
method Developed a universal collection of 4 smooth scalar invariants on M(3) x M(3) and evaluated their effectiveness in a PONITA neural network architecture.
result Using a universal collection of invariants significantly improves neural network accuracy.
ConfFlow uses transformer networks to generate molecular conformations efficiently.
problem Efficient generation of valid conformations for large molecules.
method Flow-based model using transformer networks that directly samples in coordinate space.
result ConfFlow improves accuracy by up to 40% for large molecule conformations.
New method uses biased MD to create accurate MLIPs.
problem Creating a comprehensive data set for MLIPs.
method Bias MD by MLIP's energy uncertainty, using gradient-based uncertainties.
result Develops uniformly accurate MLIPs with lower computational cost.
Atomistic or ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations are widely used to predict thermodynamics and kinetics and relate them to molecular structure. A common approach to go beyond the time- and length-scales accessible with such computationally expensive simulations is the definition of coarse-grained molecular models.…
LNK improves uncertainty estimation for molecular dynamics, reducing errors by up to 2.5 times.
problem Uncertainty estimation for molecular force fields to improve model reliability.
method LNK: Gaussian Process-based extension to GNNs addressing six desiderata.
result LNK reduces out-of-equilibrium detection errors by up to 2.5 times compared to existing methods.
New method uses geometric moments for accurate machine learning potentials.
problem Creating high-dimensional potential energy surfaces efficiently.
method Feed-forward neural networks with invariant local molecular descriptors based on geometric moments.
result Accuracy comparable to established models, high efficiency.
Framework learns inter-electronic potential for molecular dynamics.
problem Predicting time-dependent Hartree-Fock dynamics from electron density.
method Developed three models using four-index tensors, preserving symmetries.
result Model with eight-fold symmetry performs best across metrics.