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20182026
most citedLearning neural network potentials from experimental data via Differentiable Trajectory Reweighting

112 citations · 237 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

SupraTITO: Transferable Generative Molecular Dynamics for Supramolecular Systems

Weilong Chen, Nuno Costa, Julija Zavadlav

Peptide sequence governs both the structures formed through supramolecular assembly and the dynamics by which they emerge, but predicting either requires resolving slow collective…

physics.chem-ph2026

Transferable Implicit Solvent Machine Learning Potential for Drugs and Proteins Approaching Ab Initio Accuracy

Jan Eckwert, Julija Zavadlav

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLPs) have revolutionized atomistic modeling, offering the potential to replace traditional methods like Density Functional Theory (DFT). H…

physics.chem-ph2026

ConSolv: Solvent-Conditional Machine Learning Implicit Solvent Potential

Linying Zhang, Julija Zavadlav

Implicit solvent machine learning potentials (MLPs) offer a powerful route to bridging the gap between accuracy and efficiency in molecular simulations. However, existing models ha…

physics.comp-ph2026

Aluminum solidification and nanopolycrystal deformation via a Graph Neural Network Potential and Million-Atom Simulations

Ian Störmer, Julija Zavadlav

Solidification governs the microstructure and, therefore, the mechanical response of metal components, yet the atomistic details of nucleation and defect formation are often diffic…

cs.LG2026

Coarse-Grained Boltzmann Generators

Weilong Chen, Bojun Zhao, Jan Eckwert +1

Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood gen…

physics.chem-ph2025

Mapping Still Matters: Coarse-Graining with Machine Learning Potentials

Franz Görlich, Julija Zavadlav

Coarse-grained (CG) modeling enables molecular simulations to reach time and length scales inaccessible to fully atomistic methods. For classical CG models, the choice of mapping,…

physics.comp-ph2025

Refining Machine Learning Potentials through Thermodynamic Theory of Phase Transitions

Paul Fuchs, Julija Zavadlav

Foundational Machine Learning Potentials can resolve the accuracy and transferability limitations of classical force fields. They enable microscopic insights into material behavior…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Generalization of Long-Range Machine Learning Potentials in Complex Chemical Spaces

Michal Sanocki, Julija Zavadlav

The vastness of chemical space makes generalization a central challenge in the development of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). While MLIPs could enable large-scale…

physics.chem-ph2025

Enhanced Sampling for Efficient Learning of Coarse-Grained Machine Learning Potentials

Weilong Chen, Franz Görlich, Paul Fuchs +1

Coarse-graining (CG) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of larger systems and longer timescales that are otherwise infeasible with atomistic models. Machine learning poten…

q-bio.BM2025

Morphology-Aware Peptide Discovery via Masked Conditional Generative Modeling

Nuno Costa, Julija Zavadlav

Peptide self-assembly prediction offers a powerful bottom-up strategy for designing biocompatible, low-toxicity materials for large-scale synthesis in a broad range of biomedical a…

physics.comp-ph2025

chemtrain-deploy: A parallel and scalable framework for machine learning potentials in million-atom MD simulations

Paul Fuchs, Weilong Chen, Stephan Thaler +1

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) have advanced rapidly and show great promise to transform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. However, most existing software tools are tied to…

stat.CO2025★ 3 cited

JaxSGMC: Modular stochastic gradient MCMC in JAX

Stephan Thaler, Paul Fuchs, Ana Cukarska +1

We present JaxSGMC, an application-agnostic library for stochastic gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo (SG-MCMC) in JAX. SG-MCMC schemes are uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods t…

cs.LG2025

Enhancing Machine Learning Potentials through Transfer Learning across Chemical Elements

Sebastien Röcken, Julija Zavadlav

Machine Learning Potentials (MLPs) can enable simulations of ab initio accuracy at orders of magnitude lower computational cost. However, their effectiveness hinges on the availabi…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

Learning Non-Local Molecular Interactions via Equivariant Local Representations and Charge Equilibration

Paul Fuchs, Michał Sanocki, Julija Zavadlav

Graph Neural Network (GNN) potentials relying on chemical locality offer near-quantum mechanical accuracy at significantly reduced computational costs. Message-passing GNNs model i…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 20 cited

chemtrain: Learning Deep Potential Models via Automatic Differentiation and Statistical Physics

Paul Fuchs, Stephan Thaler, Sebastien Röcken +1

Neural Networks (NNs) are effective models for refining the accuracy of molecular dynamics, opening up new fields of application. Typically trained bottom-up, atomistic NN potentia…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 2 cited

Predicting solvation free energies with an implicit solvent machine learning potential

Sebastien Röcken, Anton F. Burnet, Julija Zavadlav

Machine learning (ML) potentials are a powerful tool in molecular modeling, enabling ab initio accuracy for comparably small computational costs. Nevertheless, all-atom simulations…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 48 cited

Accurate machine learning force fields via experimental and simulation data fusion

Sebastien Röcken, Julija Zavadlav

Machine Learning (ML)-based force fields are attracting ever-increasing interest due to their capacity to span spatiotemporal scales of classical interatomic potentials at quantum-…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 1 cited

Scalable Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Network Potentials: Promise and Pitfalls

Stephan Thaler, Gregor Doehner, Julija Zavadlav

Neural network (NN) potentials promise highly accurate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations within the computational complexity of classical MD force fields. However, when applied o…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 48 cited

Deep Coarse-grained Potentials via Relative Entropy Minimization

Stephan Thaler, Maximilian Stupp, Julija Zavadlav

Neural network (NN) potentials are a natural choice for coarse-grained (CG) models. Their many-body capacity allows highly accurate approximations of the potential of mean force, p…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 112 cited

Learning neural network potentials from experimental data via Differentiable Trajectory Reweighting

Stephan Thaler, Julija Zavadlav

In molecular dynamics (MD), neural network (NN) potentials trained bottom-up on quantum mechanical data have seen tremendous success recently. Top-down approaches that learn NN pot…

physics.comp-ph2021

Accelerated Simulations of Molecular Systems through Learning of their Effective Dynamics

Pantelis R. Vlachas, Julija Zavadlav, Matej Praprotnik +1

Simulations are vital for understanding and predicting the evolution of complex molecular systems. However, despite advances in algorithms and special purpose hardware, accessing t…

physics.comp-ph2018

Bayesian selection for coarse-grained models of liquid water

Julija Zavadlav, Georgios Arampatzis, Petros Koumoutsakos

The necessity for accurate and computationally efficient representations of water in atomistic simulations that can span biologically relevant timescales has born the necessity of…