Convergence of variational Monte Carlo simulation and scale-invariant pre-training

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Autori principali: Abrahamsen, Nilin, Ding, Zhiyan, Goldshlager, Gil, Lin, Lin
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author Abrahamsen, Nilin
Ding, Zhiyan
Goldshlager, Gil
Lin, Lin
author_facet Abrahamsen, Nilin
Ding, Zhiyan
Goldshlager, Gil
Lin, Lin
contents We provide theoretical convergence bounds for the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method as applied to optimize neural network wave functions for the electronic structure problem. We study both the energy minimization phase and the supervised pre-training phase that is commonly used prior to energy minimization. For the energy minimization phase, the standard algorithm is scale-invariant by design, and we provide a proof of convergence for this algorithm without modifications. The pre-training stage typically does not feature such scale-invariance. We propose using a scale-invariant loss for the pretraining phase and demonstrate empirically that it leads to faster pre-training.
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spellingShingle Convergence of variational Monte Carlo simulation and scale-invariant pre-training
Abrahamsen, Nilin
Ding, Zhiyan
Goldshlager, Gil
Lin, Lin
Machine Learning
Computational Physics
We provide theoretical convergence bounds for the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method as applied to optimize neural network wave functions for the electronic structure problem. We study both the energy minimization phase and the supervised pre-training phase that is commonly used prior to energy minimization. For the energy minimization phase, the standard algorithm is scale-invariant by design, and we provide a proof of convergence for this algorithm without modifications. The pre-training stage typically does not feature such scale-invariance. We propose using a scale-invariant loss for the pretraining phase and demonstrate empirically that it leads to faster pre-training.
title Convergence of variational Monte Carlo simulation and scale-invariant pre-training
topic Machine Learning
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11602