高效选取线性独立的原子特征构建精确机器学习势函数

机器学习势由于具有与第一性原理计算相当的准确性,且低得多的计算成本,在原子模拟中极具前景. 然而原子机器学习势的可靠性、速度和可迁移性在很大程度上取决于原子构型的表示. 适当地选取用作机器学习程序输入的描述符是一个成功的机器学习表示的关键. 本文发展了一种简单有效的方法,可以基于训练数据固有的相关性,从大量待选的描述符中自动选取一组最佳的线性独立原子特征. 通过对几个具有较少冗余线性独立嵌入密度描述符的基准分子构建嵌入原子神经网络势的应用,证明了这种新方法的有效性和准确性. 该算法可以大大简化原子特征的初始选取,并极大地提高原子机器学习势的性能.     

加速神经网络势能面的构建:一种杂化的训练算法

Machine learning approaches have been promising in constructing high-dimensional potential energy surfaces (PESs) for molecules and materials. Neural networks (NNs) are one of the most popular such tools because of its simplicity and efficiency. The training algorithm for NNs becomes essential to achieve a fast and accurate fit with numerous data. The Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm has been recognized as one of the fastest and robust algorithms to train medium sized NNs and widely applied in recent NN based high quality PESs. However, when the number of ab initio data becomes large, the efficiency of LM is limited, making the training time consuming. Extreme learning machine (ELM) is a recently proposed algorithm which determines the weights and biases of a single hidden layer NN by a linear solution and is thus extremely fast. It, however, does not produce sufficiently small fitting error because of its random nature. Taking advantages of both algorithms, we report a generalized hybrid algorithm in training multilayer NNs. Tests on H+H₂ and CH₄+Ni(111) systems demonstrate the much higher efficiency of this hybrid algorithm (ELM-LM) over the original LM. We expect that ELM-LM will find its widespread applications in building up high-dimensional NN based PESs.