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This research introduces Neural Non-Equilibrium Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, a novel framework that combines learned stochastic paths with non-equilibrium work statistics to correct Boltzmann sampling. By leveraging forward-reverse path laws, the method effectively estimates free-energy differences and normalizing constants for complex systems where traditional samplers struggle with poor overlap or high dimensionality. The approach represents significant progress in applying advanced machine learning techniques to solve rigorous problems in statistical mechanics and lattice field theory.
Neural Non-Equilibrium Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Corrected Boltzmann Sampling
arXiv:2607.15682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling from an unnormalized Boltzmann density requires proposals that move probability mass globally while retaining enough path-probability information for statistical correction. We introduce Neural Non-Equilibrium Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (NHMC), a train-then-correct learned Hamiltonian sampler. Starting from a tractable base distribution, NHMC learns stochastic Hamiltonian-style paths toward the target. Once training is complete, the learned proposal parameters are fixed; the proposal then generates complete paths and endpoint configurations, which are statistically corrected using the recorded non-equilibrium work. This dimensionless generalized work is determined by the probability ratio between the forward proposal path and a reverse reference path. During training, minimizing its mean reduces a path-space KL divergence and controls an upper bound on endpoint mismatch. During evaluation, the same quantity defines weights for self-normalized importance sampling on paths (path-SNIS), estimates normalizing constants or free-energy differences, and gives the acceptance ratio for path-space independent Metropolis-Hastings (path-IMH). The same forward-reverse laws also define a shared-bridge round-trip Metropolis kernel that acts directly on configurations and preserves the Boltzmann target. On double-well and finite-volume lattice $\phi^4$ targets, the NHMC construction gives corrected estimates when path overlap is sufficient; when overlap is poor, weight degeneracy, low acceptance, and long autocorrelation expose proposal failure. We additionally report a molecular internal-coordinate feasibility study using an MD prior and learned-force path proposal.
Abstract:Sampling from an unnormalized Boltzmann density requires proposals that move probability mass globally while retaining enough path-probability information for statistical correction. We introduce Neural Non-Equilibrium Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (NHMC), a train-then-correct learned Hamiltonian sampler. Starting from a tractable base distribution, NHMC learns stochastic Hamiltonian-style paths toward the target. Once training is complete, the learned proposal parameters are fixed; the proposal then generates complete paths and endpoint configurations, which are statistically corrected using the recorded non-equilibrium work. This dimensionless generalized work is determined by the probability ratio between the forward proposal path and a reverse reference path. During training, minimizing its mean reduces a path-space KL divergence and controls an upper bound on endpoint mismatch. During evaluation, the same quantity defines weights for self-normalized importance sampling on paths (path-SNIS), estimates normalizing constants or free-energy differences, and gives the acceptance ratio for path-space independent Metropolis-Hastings (path-IMH). The same forward-reverse laws also define a shared-bridge round-trip Metropolis kernel that acts directly on configurations and preserves the Boltzmann target. On double-well and finite-volume lattice $\phi^4$ targets, the NHMC construction gives corrected estimates when path overlap is sufficient; when overlap is poor, weight degeneracy, low acceptance, and long autocorrelation expose proposal failure. We additionally report a molecular internal-coordinate feasibility study using an MD prior and learned-force path proposal.
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
arXiv:2607.15682 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2607.15682v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
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