Neural network distillation of orbital dependent density functional theory

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Autori principali: Medvidović, Matija, Umana, Jaylyn C., Ahmadabadi, Iman, Di Sante, Domenico, Flick, Johannes, Rubio, Angel
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author Medvidović, Matija
Umana, Jaylyn C.
Ahmadabadi, Iman
Di Sante, Domenico
Flick, Johannes
Rubio, Angel
author_facet Medvidović, Matija
Umana, Jaylyn C.
Ahmadabadi, Iman
Di Sante, Domenico
Flick, Johannes
Rubio, Angel
contents Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been approximated with increasing levels of complexity ranging from strictly local approximations to nonlocal and orbital-dependent expressions with many tuned parameters. In this paper, we formulate a general way of rewriting complex density functionals using deep neural networks in a way that allows for simplified computation of Kohn-Sham potentials as well as higher functional derivatives through automatic differentiation, enabling access to highly nonlinear response functions and forces. These goals are achieved by using a recently developed class of robust neural network models capable of modeling functionals, as opposed to functions, with explicitly enforced spatial symmetries. Functionals treated in this way are then called global density approximations and can be seamlessly integrated with existing DFT workflows. Tests are performed for a dataset featuring a large variety of molecular structures and popular meta-generalized gradient approximation density functionals, where we successfully eliminate orbital dependencies coming from the kinetic energy density, and discover a high degree of transferability to a variety of physical systems. The presented framework is general and could be extended to more complex orbital and energy dependent functionals as well as refined with specialized datasets.
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spellingShingle Neural network distillation of orbital dependent density functional theory
Medvidović, Matija
Umana, Jaylyn C.
Ahmadabadi, Iman
Di Sante, Domenico
Flick, Johannes
Rubio, Angel
Chemical Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Computational Physics
Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been approximated with increasing levels of complexity ranging from strictly local approximations to nonlocal and orbital-dependent expressions with many tuned parameters. In this paper, we formulate a general way of rewriting complex density functionals using deep neural networks in a way that allows for simplified computation of Kohn-Sham potentials as well as higher functional derivatives through automatic differentiation, enabling access to highly nonlinear response functions and forces. These goals are achieved by using a recently developed class of robust neural network models capable of modeling functionals, as opposed to functions, with explicitly enforced spatial symmetries. Functionals treated in this way are then called global density approximations and can be seamlessly integrated with existing DFT workflows. Tests are performed for a dataset featuring a large variety of molecular structures and popular meta-generalized gradient approximation density functionals, where we successfully eliminate orbital dependencies coming from the kinetic energy density, and discover a high degree of transferability to a variety of physical systems. The presented framework is general and could be extended to more complex orbital and energy dependent functionals as well as refined with specialized datasets.
title Neural network distillation of orbital dependent density functional theory
topic Chemical Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16408