Uncertainty-driven dynamics for active learning of interatomic potentials

Autor: Maksim Kulichenko, Kipton Barros, Nicholas Lubbers, Ying Wai Li, Richard Messerly, Sergei Tretiak, Justin S. Smith, Benjamin Nebgen
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Nature Computational Science. 3:230-239
ISSN: 2662-8457
DOI: 10.1038/s43588-023-00406-5
Popis: Machine learning (ML) models, if trained to data sets of high-fidelity quantum simulations, produce accurate and efficient interatomic potentials. Active learning (AL) is a powerful tool to iteratively generate diverse data sets. In this approach, the ML model provides an uncertainty estimate along with its prediction for each new atomic configuration. If the uncertainty estimate passes a certain threshold, then the configuration is included in the data set. Here we develop a strategy to more rapidly discover configurations that meaningfully augment the training data set. The approach, uncertainty-driven dynamics for active learning (UDD-AL), modifies the potential energy surface used in molecular dynamics simulations to favor regions of configuration space for which there is large model uncertainty. The performance of UDD-AL is demonstrated for two AL tasks: sampling the conformational space of glycine and sampling the promotion of proton transfer in acetylacetone. The method is shown to efficiently explore the chemically relevant configuration space, which may be inaccessible using regular dynamical sampling at target temperature conditions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE