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20142026
most citedInferring dissipation from current fluctuations

160 citations · 834 across the 51 of their papers we have counts for

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53 papers

cs.LG2026

FluxLite: Inference-Time Proposal Control for Discrete Diffusion Models

Yinuo Ren, Haoxuan Chen, Grant M. Rotskoff +2

Many inference-time tasks for pretrained discrete diffusion models and diffusion language models reduce to drawing samples from a tilted version of the pretrained distribution. Fey…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Morphology and depletion force-based large-scale self-assembly of nanocubes on surface

Yeonhee Lee, Seungsang Cha, Yuna Kwak +3

Self-assembling nanoparticles is a highly efficient and facile way to form functional nano-, micro- and macrostructures. However, currently available methods lack precision and con…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Optimal parameterization of nonequilibrium generalized master equations from discrete-time experimental data

Chih-Wei Joshua Liu, Jérémie Klinger, Grant M. Rotskoff

Kinetic analyses of experiments often require coarse-grained descriptions, but complex systems rarely conform to the widely used modeling assumptions of Markovianity and thermodyna…

physics.chem-ph2026

Scaling Transferable Coarse-graining with Mean Force Matching

Abigail Park, Shriram Chennakesavalu, Grant M. Rotskoff

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics often sacrifices accuracy and transferability for computational efficiency, but the use of machine learned potentials is helping coarse-grained mo…

quant-ph2026

The cost of quantum algorithms for biochemistry: A case study in metaphosphate hydrolysis

Ryan LaRose, Antonios M. Alvertis, Alan Bidart +10

We evaluate the quantum resource requirements for ATP/metaphosphate hydrolysis, one of the most important reactions in all of biology with implications for metabolism, cellular sig…

physics.chem-ph2025

Pushing the limits of one-dimensional NMR spectroscopy for automated structure elucidation using artificial intelligence

Frank Hu, Jonathan M. Tubb, Dimitris Argyropoulos +5

One-dimensional NMR spectroscopy is one of the most widely used techniques for the characterization of organic compounds and natural products. For molecules with up to 36 non-hydro…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Quantifying and minimizing dissipation in a non-equilibrium phase transition

Yuejun Shen, Zhiqiao Jiang, Yunfan Huang +4

In a finite-time continuous phase transition, topological defects emerge as the system undergoes spontaneous symmetry breaking. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts how the defect d…

cs.LG2025

DriftLite: Lightweight Drift Control for Inference-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models

Yinuo Ren, Wenhao Gao, Lexing Ying +2

We study inference-time scaling for diffusion models, where the goal is to adapt a pre-trained model to new target distributions without retraining. Existing guidance-based methods…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)

Andrew Ferguson, Marisa LaFleur, Lars Ruthotto +97

This community paper developed out of the NSF Workshop on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Mathematical and Physics Sciences (MPS), which was held in March 2025 w…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Minimally dissipative multi-bit logical operations

Jérémie Klinger, Grant M. Rotskoff

Modern computing architectures are vastly more energy-dissipative than fundamental thermodynamic limits suggest, motivating the search for principled approaches to low-dissipation…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Unified Approach to Analysis and Design of Denoising Markov Models

Yinuo Ren, Grant M. Rotskoff, Lexing Ying

Probabilistic generative models based on measure transport, such as diffusion and flow-based models, are often formulated in the language of Markovian stochastic dynamics, where th…

cs.LG2025

Fast Solvers for Discrete Diffusion Models: Theory and Applications of High-Order Algorithms

Yinuo Ren, Haoxuan Chen, Yuchen Zhu +5

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative modeling framework for discrete data with successful applications spanning from text generation to image synthesis.…

cond-mat.soft2024

Scaling field-theoretic simulation for multi-component mixtures with neural operators

Emmit K. Pert, Clay H. Batton, Sherry Li +2

Multi-component polymer mixtures are ubiquitous in biological self-organization but are notoriously difficult to study computationally. Plagued by both slow single molecule relaxat…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

Features are fate: a theory of transfer learning in high-dimensional regression

Javan Tahir, Surya Ganguli, Grant M. Rotskoff

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, pref…

cs.LG2024

How Discrete and Continuous Diffusion Meet: Comprehensive Analysis of Discrete Diffusion Models via a Stochastic Integral Framework

Yinuo Ren, Haoxuan Chen, Grant M. Rotskoff +1

Discrete diffusion models have gained increasing attention for their ability to model complex distributions with tractable sampling and inference. However, the error analysis for d…

cond-mat.soft2024

Coacervation drives morphological diversity of mRNA encapsulating nanoparticles

Emmit K. Pert, Paul J. Hurst, Robert M. Waymouth +1

The spatial arrangement of components within an mRNA encapsulating nanoparticle has consequences for its thermal stability, which is a key parameter for therapeutic utility. The me…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 3 cited

Accurate and efficient structure elucidation from routine one-dimensional NMR spectra using multitask machine learning

Frank Hu, Michael S. Chen, Grant M. Rotskoff +2

Rapid determination of molecular structures can greatly accelerate workflows across many chemical disciplines. However, elucidating structure using only one-dimensional (1D) NMR sp…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Committor guided estimates of molecular transition rates

Andrew R. Mitchell, Grant M. Rotskoff

The probability that a configuration of a physical system reacts, or transitions from one metastable state to another, is quantified by the committor function. This function contai…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Non-Clifford diagonalization for measurement shot reduction in quantum expectation value estimation

Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Daan Camps, Ben DalFavero +3

Estimating expectation values on near-term quantum computers often requires a prohibitively large number of measurements. One widely-used strategy to mitigate this problem has been…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Discrete generative diffusion models without stochastic differential equations: a tensor network approach

Luke Causer, Grant M. Rotskoff, Juan P. Garrahan

Diffusion models (DMs) are a class of generative machine learning methods that sample a target distribution by transforming samples of a trivial (often Gaussian) distribution using…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Computing Nonequilibrium Responses with Score-shifted Stochastic Differential Equations

Jérémie Klinger, Grant M. Rotskoff

Using equilibrium fluctuations to understand the response of a physical system to an externally imposed perturbation is the basis for linear response theory, which is widely used t…

physics.chem-ph2024

Quantum Hardware-Enabled Molecular Dynamics via Transfer Learning

Abid Khan, Prateek Vaish, Yaoqi Pang +8

The ability to perform ab initio molecular dynamics simulations using potential energies calculated on quantum computers would allow virtually exact dynamics for chemical and bioch…

cs.LG2024

Accelerating Diffusion Models with Parallel Sampling: Inference at Sub-Linear Time Complexity

Haoxuan Chen, Yinuo Ren, Lexing Ying +1

Diffusion models have become a leading method for generative modeling of both image and scientific data. As these models are costly to train and \emph{evaluate}, reducing the infer…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Aligning Transformers with Continuous Feedback via Energy Rank Alignment

Shriram Chennakesavalu, Frank Hu, Sebastian Ibarraran +1

Searching through chemical space is an exceptionally challenging problem because the number of possible molecules grows combinatorially with the number of atoms. Large, autoregress…