Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

T Divoux, E Agoritsas, S Aime, C Barentin, JL Barrat… - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays
and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical …

Adaptive Monte Carlo augmented with normalizing flows

M Gabrié, GM Rotskoff… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Many problems in the physical sciences, machine learning, and statistical inference
necessitate sampling from a high-dimensional, multimodal probability distribution. Markov …

How to use neural networks to investigate quantum many-body physics

J Carrasquilla, G Torlai - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Over the past few years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool to
tackle complex problems in a broad range of scientific disciplines. In particular, artificial …

Variational neural annealing

M Hibat-Allah, EM Inack, R Wiersema… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
Many important challenges in science and technology can be cast as optimization problems.
When viewed in a statistical physics framework, these can be tackled by simulated …

Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics

G Jung, RM Alkemade, V Bapst, D Coslovich… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Unravelling the connections between microscopic structure, emergent physical properties
and slow dynamics has long been a challenge when studying the glass transition. The …

Learning nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and dynamical phase transitions

Y Tang, J Liu, J Zhang, P Zhang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics exhibit a variety of complex phenomena far from
equilibrium. It inherits challenges of equilibrium, including accurately describing the joint …

Normalizing flows as an enhanced sampling method for atomistic supercooled liquids

G Jung, G Biroli, L Berthier - Machine Learning: Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Normalizing flows can transform a simple prior probability distribution into a more complex
target distribution. Here, we evaluate the ability and efficiency of generative machine …

Machine-learning-assisted Monte Carlo fails at sampling computationally hard problems

S Ciarella, J Trinquier, M Weigt… - … Learning: Science and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Several strategies have been recently proposed in order to improve Monte Carlo sampling
efficiency using machine learning tools. Here, we challenge these methods by considering a …

Unbiased Monte Carlo cluster updates with autoregressive neural networks

D Wu, R Rossi, G Carleo - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Efficient sampling of complex high-dimensional probability distributions is a central task in
computational science. Machine learning methods like autoregressive neural networks …

On sampling with approximate transport maps

L Grenioux, A Durmus, É Moulines… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Transport maps can ease the sampling of distributions with non-trivial geometries by
transforming them into distributions that are easier to handle. The potential of this approach …