Short-Time Infrequent Metadynamics for Improved Kinetics Inference

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Blumer, Ofir, Reuveni, Shlomi, Hirshberg, Barak
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866929739328913408
author Blumer, Ofir
Reuveni, Shlomi
Hirshberg, Barak
author_facet Blumer, Ofir
Reuveni, Shlomi
Hirshberg, Barak
contents Infrequent Metadynamics is a popular method to obtain the rates of long timescale processes from accelerated simulations. The inference procedure is based on rescaling the first-passage times of Metadynamics trajectories using a bias-dependent acceleration factor. While useful in many cases, it is limited to Poisson kinetics, and a reliable estimation of the unbiased rate requires slow bias deposition and prior knowledge of efficient collective variables. Here, we propose an improved inference scheme, which is based on two key observations: 1) The time-independent rate of Poisson processes can be estimated using short trajectories only. 2) Short trajectories experience minimal bias, and their rescaled first-passage times follow the unbiased distribution even for relatively high deposition rates and suboptimal collective variables. Therefore, by limiting the inference procedure to short timescales, we obtain an improved tradeoff between speedup and accuracy at no additional computational cost, especially when employing suboptimal collective variables. We demonstrate the improved inference scheme for a model system and two molecular systems.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2401_14237
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Short-Time Infrequent Metadynamics for Improved Kinetics Inference
Blumer, Ofir
Reuveni, Shlomi
Hirshberg, Barak
Chemical Physics
Infrequent Metadynamics is a popular method to obtain the rates of long timescale processes from accelerated simulations. The inference procedure is based on rescaling the first-passage times of Metadynamics trajectories using a bias-dependent acceleration factor. While useful in many cases, it is limited to Poisson kinetics, and a reliable estimation of the unbiased rate requires slow bias deposition and prior knowledge of efficient collective variables. Here, we propose an improved inference scheme, which is based on two key observations: 1) The time-independent rate of Poisson processes can be estimated using short trajectories only. 2) Short trajectories experience minimal bias, and their rescaled first-passage times follow the unbiased distribution even for relatively high deposition rates and suboptimal collective variables. Therefore, by limiting the inference procedure to short timescales, we obtain an improved tradeoff between speedup and accuracy at no additional computational cost, especially when employing suboptimal collective variables. We demonstrate the improved inference scheme for a model system and two molecular systems.
title Short-Time Infrequent Metadynamics for Improved Kinetics Inference
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14237