Jakub Rydzewski
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Jakub Rydzewski
@jkrd.bsky.social
Associate professor at NCU, Poland.

Developing advanced methods for atomistic simulations.
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📢 PET-MAD is here! 📢 It has been for a while for those who read the #arXiv, but now you get it preciously 💸 typeset by @natcomms.nature.com Take home: unconstrained architecture + good train set choices give you fast, accurate and stable universal MLIP that just works™️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
PET-MAD as a lightweight universal interatomic potential for advanced materials modeling - Nature Communications
PET-MAD is a fast and lightweight universal machine-learning potential, trained on a small but diverse dataset, that delivers near-quantum accuracy in atomistic simulations for both organic and inorga...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Great collaboration with Yanbin Wang and @MingChe40113998 from Purdue Uni. -- JCTC just published our paper introducing generalized sample transition probabilities (GSTP) for constructing collective variables from biased MD data.
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Constructing Generalized Sample Transition Probabilities with Biased Simulations
In molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, accessing transition probabilities between states is crucial for understanding kinetic information such as reaction paths and rates. However, standard MD simula...
pubs.acs.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Now available in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
July 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Together with my students, we have implemented a PyTorch Lightning package for dimensionality reduction with a parametric version of tSNE. More methods soon!

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.16476
Code: github.com/NeuralTSNE
NeuralTSNE: A Python Package for the Dimensionality Reduction of Molecular Dynamics Data Using Neural Networks
Unsupervised machine learning has recently gained much attention in the field of molecular dynamics (MD). Particularly, dimensionality reduction techniques have been regularly employed to analyze larg...
arxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reposted by Jakub Rydzewski
The paper describing our community effort to collect and organize #plumed tutorials has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics, as part of the Michele Parrinello Festschrift! doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
PLUMED Tutorials: A collaborative, community-driven learning ecosystem
In computational physics, chemistry, and biology, the implementation of new techniques in shared and open-source software lowers barriers to entry and promotes
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March 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For those seeking postdoc opportunities in Poland -- NAWA has opened the Ulam program. If you are interested in applying for a scholarship in our group, please contact me!

nawa.gov.pl/en/programy-...
February 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Very happy to announce that our featured review on thermodynamics-informed learning of slow CVs has finally been published in Chemical Physics Reviews as part of the Special Collection on AI and Machine Learning in Chemical and Materials Science!

doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
Machine learning of slow collective variables and enhanced sampling via spatial techniques
Understanding the long-time dynamics of complex physical processes depends on our ability to recognize patterns. To simplify the description of these processes,
doi.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our review on ML, CVs, and enhanced sampling has been accepted in Chem. Phys. Rev. Congratulations to Tugce Gokdemir
on her 1st first-author paper! arxiv.org/abs/2412.20868

Many thanks to Haochuan Chen, Luke Evans, Luigi Bonati, and Omar Valsson for their great feedback!
Machine Learning of Slow Collective Variables and Enhanced Sampling via Spatial Techniques
Understanding the long-time dynamics of complex physical processes depends on our ability to recognize patterns. To simplify the description of these processes, we often introduce a set of reaction co...
arxiv.org
January 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Interested in doing MD simulations of protein-ligand dissociation? Check out our PLUMED tutorial on the new version of maze: www.plumed-tutorials.org/lessons/24/0...

Implementation: github.com/jakryd/plume...

More details about PLUMED Tutorials in our collaborative work: arxiv.org/abs/2412.03595
maze Tutorial | PLUMED-TUTORIALS by plumed-tutorials
Training resources developed by the PLUMED consortium
www.plumed-tutorials.org
December 9, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Jakub Rydzewski
To PhD students -- if you are interested in molecular dynamics and machine learning, you can now apply for a one-month visit to our group!
Mail or DM me for more information.
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Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics - Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu.
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November 16, 2024 at 4:24 PM