Principles of maximum entropy and maximum caliber in statistical physics

S Pressé, K Ghosh, J Lee, KA Dill - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
The variational principles called maximum entropy (MaxEnt) and maximum caliber
(MaxCal)<? format?> are reviewed. MaxEnt originated in the statistical physics of Boltzmann …

An introduction to the maximum entropy approach and its application to inference problems in biology

A De Martino, D De Martino - Heliyon, 2018 - cell.com
A cornerstone of statistical inference, the maximum entropy framework is being increasingly
applied to construct descriptive and predictive models of biological systems, especially …

Unraveling the thousand word picture: an introduction to super-resolution data analysis

A Lee, K Tsekouras, C Calderon, C Bustamante… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Super-resolution microscopy provides direct insight into fundamental biological processes
occurring at length scales smaller than light's diffraction limit. The analysis of data at such …

The maximum caliber variational principle for nonequilibria

K Ghosh, PD Dixit, L Agozzino… - Annual review of physical …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever since Clausius in 1865 and Boltzmann in 1877, the concepts of entropy and of its
maximization have been the foundations for predicting how material equilibria derive from …

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of the asymmetric Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

M Aguilera, M Igarashi, H Shimazaki - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Most natural systems operate far from equilibrium, displaying time-asymmetric, irreversible
dynamics characterized by a positive entropy production while exchanging energy and …

Perspective: Maximum caliber is a general variational principle for dynamical systems

PD Dixit, J Wagoner, C Weistuch, S Pressé… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We review here Maximum Caliber (Max Cal), a general variational principle for inferring
distributions of paths in dynamical processes and networks. Max Cal is to dynamical …

Entropy, irreversibility and inference at the foundations of statistical physics

JA Pachter, YJ Yang, KA Dill - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Statistical physics relates the properties of macroscale systems to the distributions of their
microscale agents. Its central tool has been the maximization of entropy, an equilibrium …

Path sampling of recurrent neural networks by incorporating known physics

ST Tsai, E Fields, Y Xu, EJ Kuo, P Tiwary - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Recurrent neural networks have seen widespread use in modeling dynamical systems in
varied domains such as weather prediction, text prediction and several others. Often one …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient strategy to estimate thermodynamics and kinetics of G protein-coupled receptor activation using metadynamics and maximum caliber

D Meral, D Provasi, M Filizola - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Computational strategies aimed at unveiling the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of G
Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) activation require extensive molecular dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Stochastic distinguishability of Markovian trajectories

A Pagare, Z Zhang, J Zheng, Z Lu - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to distinguish between stochastic systems based on their trajectories is crucial in
thermodynamics, chemistry, and biophysics. The Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence, D KL AB …