“…A related question comprises the entropy production in such CG systems and whether it is possible to connect thermodynamic quantities such as entropy [37,38,54] as discussed intensively in the framework of stochastic thermodynamics [55][56][57] to dynamic coarsegraining, for example via projection operator techniques? We believe that answering these questions would pave the way towards systematic dynamic coarse-graining of nonequilibrium soft matter systems with applications to active microrheology [25,58], active matter [27,55,59], but also non-stationary situations such as crystallization [60], colloid self-assembly [61] or at phase transitions [62] using a nonstationary GLE [21,63].…”