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A popular way to accelerate the sampling of rare events in molecular dynamics simulations is to introduce a potential that increases the fluctuations of selected collective variables. For this strategy to be successful, it is critical to choose appropriate variables. Here we review some recent developments in the data-driven design of collective variables, with a focus on the combination of Fishers discriminant analysis and neural networks. This approach allows to compress the fluctuations of metastable states into a low-dimensional representation. We illustrate through several examples the effectiveness of this method in accelerating the sampling, while also identifying the physical descriptors that undergo the most significant changes in the process.
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Designing an appropriate set of collective variables is crucial to the success of several enhanced sampling methods. Here we focus on how to obtain such variables from information limited to the metastable states. We characterize these states by a la
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