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most citedPeptide Classification from Statistical Analysis of Nanopore Translocation Experiments

6 citations · 17 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

Multi-modal transformer for signal classification in nanopore blockade experiments

Sandro Kuppel, Julian Hoßbach, Samuel Tovey +1

Nanopore devices have emerged as powerful tools for single-molecule sensing, with potential for rapid, portable diagnostics. They detect changes in ionic current as analytes enter…

cs.RO2026

From Rubble Simulation to Active Magnetic Mapping: Quantum Sensing for Disaster Response

Samuel Tovey, Stefan Prestel, Hiroshi Yamauchi

Locating survivors of building collapses within the first 72 hours is a critical challenge in disaster response, and existing sensing modalities provide only partial information ab…

cs.RO2026

Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries

Jannik Drotleff, Samuel Tovey, Paul Hohenberger +4

Autonomous microrobots navigating biological vasculature could enable targeted drug delivery and thrombolysis, yet training control policies for realistic environments remains an o…

quant-ph2026

Sequential Spatiotemporal Magnetic-Field Reconstruction via Quantum Hamiltonian Learning with NV-Center Spin-1 Hamiltonians

Hiroshi Yamauchi, Sophie Colleen Stearn, Samuel Tovey

We propose a quantum-Hamiltonian-learning-based sequential reconstruction framework for dynamic two-dimensional magnetic-field maps using a local likelihood model derived from a ni…

cs.LG2026

Spectral Reach: Understanding Neural Scaling as Progress into the Spectral Tail

Konstantin Nikolaou, Jonas Scheunemann, Sven Krippendorf +2

Neural scaling laws describe predictable power-law relationships between model size, dataset size, compute, and performance. While these laws guide the development of modern founda…

cond-mat.soft2026

Reservoir computing from collective dynamics of active colloidal oscillators

Veit-Lorenz Heuthe, Lukas Seemann, Samuel Tovey +1

Physical reservoir computing is a computational framework that offers an energy- and computation-efficient alternative to conventional training of neural networks. In reservoir com…

cs.LG2025

Deep Learning-Driven Peptide Classification in Biological Nanopores

Julian Hoßbach, Samuel Tovey, Sandro Kuppel +3

Nanopore-based single-molecule sensing is a promising route to fast, low-cost disease diagnosis and protein sequencing: as an analyte such as a peptide or protein traverses a nanos…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Scaling Curves: Internal Dynamics of Neural Networks Through the NTK Lens

Konstantin Nikolaou, Sven Krippendorf, Samuel Tovey +1

Scaling laws offer valuable insights into the relationship between neural network performance and computational cost, yet their underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In t…

quant-ph2025★ 5 cited

Quantum vs. classical: A comprehensive benchmark study for predicting time series with variational quantum machine learning

Tobias Fellner, David Kreplin, Samuel Tovey +1

Variational quantum machine learning algorithms have been proposed as promising tools for time series prediction, with the potential to handle complex sequential data more effectiv…

cs.LG2024

Collective variables of neural networks: empirical time evolution and scaling laws

Samuel Tovey, Sven Krippendorf, Michael Spannowsky +2

This work presents a novel means for understanding learning dynamics and scaling relations in neural networks. We show that certain measures on the spectrum of the empirical neural…

physics.bio-ph2024★ 6 cited

Peptide Classification from Statistical Analysis of Nanopore Translocation Experiments

Julian Hoßbach, Samuel Tovey, Tobias Ensslen +2

Protein characterization using nanopore-based devices promises to be a breakthrough method in basic research, diagnostics, and analytics. Current research includes the use of machi…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

SwarmRL: Building the Future of Smart Active Systems

Samuel Tovey, Christoph Lohrmann, Tobias Merkt +6

This work introduces SwarmRL, a Python package designed to study intelligent active particles. SwarmRL provides an easy-to-use interface for developing models to control microscopi…

physics.bio-ph2024

Emergence of Chemotactic Strategies with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Samuel Tovey, Christoph Lohrmann, Christian Holm

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a flexible and efficient method for programming micro-robots in complex environments. Here we investigate whether reinforcement learning can provide…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Generating Quantum Reservoir State Representations with Random Matrices

Samuel Tovey, Tobias Fellner, Christian Holm +1

We demonstrate a novel approach to reservoir computation measurements using random matrices. We do so to motivate how atomic-scale devices could be used for real-world computationa…

cond-mat.soft2024

Emergence of Accurate Atomic Energies from Machine Learned Noble Gas Potentials

Frank Uhlig, Samuel Tovey, Christian Holm

The quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) gives access to well-defined local atomic energies. Due to their locality, these energies are potentially interesting in fitting at…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

ZnTrack -- Data as Code

Fabian Zills, Moritz Schäfer, Samuel Tovey +2

The past decade has seen tremendous breakthroughs in computation and there is no indication that this will slow any time soon. Machine learning, large-scale computing resources, an…

physics.comp-ph2023

Generating Minimal Training Sets for Machine Learned Potentials

Jan Finkbeiner, Samuel Tovey, Christian Holm

This letter presents a novel approach for identifying uncorrelated atomic configurations from extensive data sets with a non-standard neural network workflow known as random networ…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 1 cited

Environmental effects on emergent strategy in micro-scale multi-agent reinforcement learning

Samuel Tovey, David Zimmer, Christoph Lohrmann +5

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a promising candidate for realizing efficient control of microscopic particles, of which micro-robots are a subset. However, the micros…

cs.LG2023

Towards a Phenomenological Understanding of Neural Networks: Data

Samuel Tovey, Sven Krippendorf, Konstantin Nikolaou +1

A theory of neural networks (NNs) built upon collective variables would provide scientists with the tools to better understand the learning process at every stage. In this work, we…

physics.comp-ph2021

Efficient Data Selection Methods for the Development of Machine Learned Potentials

Jan Finkbeiner, Samuel Tovey, Christian Holm

We present an investigation into data selection methods for the efficient sampling of configuration space as applied to the development of inter-atomic potentials for scale bridgin…