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5 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Enabling Structure-Only Initialization and Out-of-Distribution Generalization in GNN-based Molecular Dynamics Simulators

S. A. Shteingolts, Salman N. Salman, Dan Mendels

Machine learning-based simulators offer the potential to model the dynamics of complex systems more efficiently than classical approaches, while retaining differentiability, a key…

physics.bio-ph2026

Guiding Peptide Kinetics via Collective-Variable Tuning of Free-Energy Barriers

Alexander Zhilkin, Muralika Medaparambath, Dan Mendels

While recent advances in AI have transformed protein structure prediction, protein function is also strongly influenced by the thermodynamic and kinetic features encoded in its und…

physics.bio-ph2026

Collective Variable-Guided Engineering of the Free-Energy Surface of a Small Peptide

Muralika Medaparambath, Alexander Zhilkin, Dan Mendels

Engineering the free-energy surfaces (FES) of proteins and peptides is central to controlling conformational ensembles and their responses to perturbations. However, predicting how…

physics.chem-ph2026

A Non Linear Spectral Graph Neural Network Simulator for More Stable and Accurate Rollouts

Salman N. Salman, Sergey A. Shteingolts, Ron Levie +1

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a central tool in science and engineering enabling the study of dynamical behavior and the link between microscopic structure and macroscopi…

physics.chem-ph2025

Dynamical Data for More Efficient and Generalizable Learning: A Case Study in Disordered Elastic Networks

Salman N. Salman, Sergey A. Shteingolts, Ron Levie +1

Machine learning models often require large datasets and struggle to generalize beyond their training distribution. These limitations pose significant challenges in scientific and…