Smooth Normalizing Flows

Understand

Normalizing flows are a promising tool for modeling probability distributions in physical systems.

• While state-of-the-art flows accurately approximate distributions and energies, applications in physics additionally require smooth energies to compute forces and higher-order derivatives.
• Furthermore, such densities are often defined on non-trivial topologies.
• A recent example are Boltzmann Generators for generating 3D-structures of peptides and small proteins.