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20222026
most citedAutomatic feature selection and weighting in molecular systems using Differentiable Information Imbalance

15 citations · 22 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.ao-ph2026

How well is surface ocean carbon represented in observations and ocean models?

Viviana Acquaviva, Romina Wild, Alessandro Laio +3

We introduce a general framework for quantifying the information content and representation quality of complex geophysical datasets based on the intrinsic dimension and differentia…

physics.chem-ph2026

Investigating causality between principal components in protein dynamics

Debarshi Banerjee, Ali Hassanali, Alessandro Laio

Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used to characterize collective protein motions from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. While PCA identifies the dominant modes of st…

physics.chem-ph2026

Causality in Liquid Water as a Hallmark of Emergent Glassy Dynamics

Leon Huet, Vittorio Del Tatto, Debarshi Banerjee +2

In molecular liquids such as water, time-delayed influences between microscopic or mesoscopic variables are typically probed using time-correlation functions, which are symmetric u…

q-bio.BM2026★ 1 cited

Phase Transitions in Unsupervised Feature Selection

Jonathan Fiorentino, Michele Monti, Dimitrios Miltiadis-Vrachnos +3

Identifying minimal and informative feature sets is a central challenge in data analysis, particularly when few data points are available. Here we present a theoretical analysis of…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 3 cited

Towards a robust approach to infer causality in molecular systems satisfying detailed balance

Vittorio Del Tatto, Debarshi Banerjee, Ali Hassanali +1

The ability to distinguish between correlation and causation of variables in molecular systems remains an interesting and open area of investigation. In this work, we probe causali…

physics.data-an2025★ 3 cited

Linear scaling causal discovery from high-dimensional time series by dynamical community detection

Matteo Allione, Vittorio Del Tatto, Alessandro Laio

Understanding which parts of a dynamical system cause each other is extremely relevant in fundamental and applied sciences. However, inferring causal links from observational data,…

cs.LG2024★ 15 cited

Automatic feature selection and weighting in molecular systems using Differentiable Information Imbalance

Romina Wild, Felix Wodaczek, Vittorio Del Tatto +2

Feature selection is essential in the analysis of molecular systems and many other fields, but several uncertainties remain: What is the optimal number of features for a simplified…

stat.ME2024

Maximally informative feature selection using Information Imbalance: Application to COVID-19 severity prediction

Romina Wild, Emanuela Sozio, Riccardo G. Margiotta +6

Clinical databases typically include, for each patient, many heterogeneous features, for example blood exams, the clinical history before the onset of the disease, the evolution of…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

Metadynamics for transition paths in irreversible dynamics

Tobias Grafke, Alessandro Laio

Stochastic systems often exhibit multiple viable metastable states that are long-lived. Over very long timescales, fluctuations may push the system to transition between them, dras…