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# Class AbstractStepRENS

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         object --+
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    AbstractSampler --+
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             AbstractMC --+
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         AbstractEnsembleMC --+
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             AbstractExchangeMC --+
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                       AbstractRENS --+
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                                     AbstractStepRENS

Known Subclasses:
  - HMCStepRENS

Replica Exchange with Nonequilibrium Switches (RENS, Ballard & Jarzynski 2009) with stepwise trajectories as described in Nilmeier et al., "Nonequilibrium candidate Monte Carlo is an efficient tool for equilibrium simulation", PNAS 2011. The switching parameter dependence of the Hamiltonian is a linear interpolation between the PDFs of the sampler objects, H(λ) = H_2 * λ + (1 - λ) * H_1. The perturbation kernel is a thermodynamic perturbation and the propagation is subclass responsibility. Note that due to the linear interpolations between the two Hamiltonians, the log-probability has to be evaluated four times per perturbation step which can be costly. In this case it is advisable to define the intermediate log probabilities in _run_traj_generator differently.

Nested Classes
Inherited from `AbstractSampler`: `__metaclass__`

Instance Methods
__init__(self, samplers, param_infos) x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature | source code
Inherited from `AbstractExchangeMC`: `swap` Inherited from `AbstractEnsembleMC`: `sample` Inherited from `object`: `__delattr__`, `__format__`, `__getattribute__`, `__hash__`, `__new__`, `__reduce__`, `__reduce_ex__`, `__repr__`, `__setattr__`, `__sizeof__`, `__str__`, `__subclasshook__`

Class Variables
| __abstractmethods__ = ``frozenset([``'``_add_gradients``'``,` `'``_calc_work``...``

Properties
Inherited from `AbstractExchangeMC`: `acceptance_rates`, `param_infos`, `statistics` Inherited from `AbstractEnsembleMC`: `energy` Inherited from `AbstractMC`: `state` Inherited from `object`: `__class__`

Method Details

### __init__(self, samplers, param_infos) (Constructor) | source code
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature Parameters: `samplers` (list of AbstractSingleChainMC) - Samplers which sample their respective equilibrium distributions `param_infos` (list of AbstractSwapParameterInfo) - ParameterInfo instances holding information required to perform a HMCStepRENS swaps Overrides: object.__init__ (inherited documentation)

Class Variable Details

  ### __abstractmethods__ Value:
      frozenset(['_add_gradients', '_calc_works', '_setup_propagations'])