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Frank Noe

16 accepted papers

2026

Excited Pfaffians: Generalized Neural Wave Functions Across Structure and State

ICML 2026spotlight

Neural-network wave functions in Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) have achieved great success in accurately representing both ground and excited states. However, achieving sufficient numerical accuracy of state overlaps requires growing the number of Monte Carlo samples, and consequently computational …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Learning Hamiltonian Flow Maps: Mean Flow Consistency for Large-Timestep Molecular Dynamics

ICML 2026spotlight

Simulating the long-time evolution of Hamiltonian systems is limited by the small timesteps required for stable numerical integration. To overcome this constraint, we introduce a framework to learn *Hamiltonian Flow Maps* by predicting the *mean* phase-space evolution over a chosen time span $\Delta…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Consistent Sampling and Simulation: Molecular Dynamics with Energy-Based Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

In recent years, diffusion models trained on equilibrium molecular distributions have proven effective for sampling biomolecules. Beyond direct sampling, the score of such a model can also be used to derive the forces that act on molecular systems. However, while classical diffusion sampling usually…

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2024

Doob's Lagrangian: A Sample-Efficient Variational Approach to Transition Path Sampling

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Rare event sampling in dynamical systems is a fundamental problem arising in the natural sciences, which poses significant computational challenges due to an exponentially large space of trajectories. For settings where the dynamical system of interest follows a Brownian motion with known drift, the…

2024

Navigating the Design Space of Equivariant Diffusion-Based Generative Models for De Novo 3D Molecule Generation

ICLR 2024poster

Deep generative diffusion models are a promising avenue for 3D de novo molecular design in materials science and drug discovery. However, their utility is still limited by suboptimal performance on large molecular structures and limited training data. To address this gap, we explore the design space…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2023

Rigid Body Flows for Sampling Molecular Crystal Structures

ICML 2023poster

Normalizing flows (NF) are a class of powerful generative models that have gained popularity in recent years due to their ability to model complex distributions with high flexibility and expressiveness. In this work, we introduce a new type of normalizing flow that is tailored for modeling positions…

2023

Timewarp: Transferable Acceleration of Molecular Dynamics by Learning Time-Coarsened Dynamics

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

*Molecular dynamics* (MD) simulation is a widely used technique to simulate molecular systems, most commonly at the all-atom resolution where equations of motion are integrated with timesteps on the order of femtoseconds ($1\textrm{fs}=10^{-15}\textrm{s}$). MD is often used to compute equilibrium p…

2022

Unsupervised Learning of Group Invariant and Equivariant Representations

NeurIPS 2022accept

Equivariant neural networks, whose hidden features transform according to representations of a group $G$ acting on the data, exhibit training efficiency and an improved generalisation performance. In this work, we extend group invariant and equivariant representation learning to the field of unsuper…

2021

Permutation-Invariant Variational Autoencoder for Graph-Level Representation Learning

NeurIPS 2021poster

Recently, there has been great success in applying deep neural networks on graph structured data. Most work, however, focuses on either node- or graph-level supervised learning, such as node, link or graph classification or node-level unsupervised learning (e.g. node clustering). Despite its wide ra…

2020

Equivariant Flows: Exact Likelihood Generative Learning for Symmetric Densities

ICML 2020poster

Normalizing flows are exact-likelihood generative neural networks which approximately transform samples from a simple prior distribution to samples of the probability distribution of interest. Recent work showed that such generative models can be utilized in statistical mechanics to sample equilibri…

Cited by 287SourcePDFScholar