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Hauptverfasser: Hložný, Adam, Brndiar, Ján, Luo, Ye, Štich, Ivan
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22601
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author Hložný, Adam
Brndiar, Ján
Luo, Ye
Štich, Ivan
author_facet Hložný, Adam
Brndiar, Ján
Luo, Ye
Štich, Ivan
contents We designed a procedure to train a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) at benchmark-quality quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) accuracy. To avoid the complexities of high-quality atomic force determination with the stochastic QMC methods, we use a multi-fidelity approach wherein high-level QMC energies are used alongside suitably processed low-level DFT atomic forces to train a QMC fine-tuned MLIP which significantly improves both the energetics and atomic forces over the baseline DFT-based MLIP. Fine-tuning is only applied to the readout layers of an equivariant message-passing MACE MLIP. We used sulfur mono- and multiple vacancies in monolayer MoS$_2$ as a testbed and demonstrate a near QMC accuracy of the model in a number of in- and out-of-domain tests. We show that a fairly limited dataset of QMC energies suffice to significantly improve the baseline DFT MLIP. The accuracy of our approach is demonstrated on energy and free energy migration barriers of mono- and multiple S-vacancy defects. The results open the window to large-scale near QMC quality simulations with large numbers of atoms and/or molecular dynamics configurations which would not be possible by a direct brute-force application of QMC methods.
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spellingShingle Upscaling DFT-trained machine-learning interatomic potential toward Quantum Monte Carlo accuracy: Sulfur-vacancy migration in monolayer MoS$_2$ as a testbed
Hložný, Adam
Brndiar, Ján
Luo, Ye
Štich, Ivan
Materials Science
We designed a procedure to train a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) at benchmark-quality quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) accuracy. To avoid the complexities of high-quality atomic force determination with the stochastic QMC methods, we use a multi-fidelity approach wherein high-level QMC energies are used alongside suitably processed low-level DFT atomic forces to train a QMC fine-tuned MLIP which significantly improves both the energetics and atomic forces over the baseline DFT-based MLIP. Fine-tuning is only applied to the readout layers of an equivariant message-passing MACE MLIP. We used sulfur mono- and multiple vacancies in monolayer MoS$_2$ as a testbed and demonstrate a near QMC accuracy of the model in a number of in- and out-of-domain tests. We show that a fairly limited dataset of QMC energies suffice to significantly improve the baseline DFT MLIP. The accuracy of our approach is demonstrated on energy and free energy migration barriers of mono- and multiple S-vacancy defects. The results open the window to large-scale near QMC quality simulations with large numbers of atoms and/or molecular dynamics configurations which would not be possible by a direct brute-force application of QMC methods.
title Upscaling DFT-trained machine-learning interatomic potential toward Quantum Monte Carlo accuracy: Sulfur-vacancy migration in monolayer MoS$_2$ as a testbed
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22601