Automatic Determination of Stepsize Parameters in Monte Carlo Simulation Tested on a Bromodomain-Binding Octapeptide
Abstract:
The proportional integral controller,
commonly used in engineering applications
for process control, has been implemented for the
tuning of the stepsizes in Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations.
Similarly to the recent application for tuning the chemical potential
parameter in grand-canonical ensemble simulation, the process-control
approach was found to work well for the problem of selecting
the stepsize for each torsion angle that results in a targeted
acceptance rate during the simulation of an octapeptide
in aqueous environment.