The original AIS paper, from Radford Neal
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1008923215028
Bidirectional Monte Carlo (esp Sec. 3.3-4.3)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02543
MCMC and Variational Inference: Bridging the Gap
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6460.pdf
Improving MI Estimation with Annealed and Energy Based Bounds
https://openreview.net/forum?id=T0B9AoM_bFg
Rob and I both really like this paper by Habeck, "Model evidence from nonequilibrium simulations". It's like a review but also details the exact correspondence between ideas in nonequilibrium thermodynamics (Crooks and Jarzynski equations) with AIS.
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/hash/4da04049a062f5adfe81b67dd755cecc-Abstract.html