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@MISC{Wasmer:1020056,
author = {Wasmer, Johannes and Rüssmann, Philipp},
othercontributors = {Chen, Po-Yen and Burdulea, Ilinca and A, Lixia},
title = {{S}i{S}c {L}ab 2022, {P}roject 6. {A} machine learning
playground in quantum mechanical simulation.},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-05857},
year = {2022},
note = {$https://iffmd.fz-juelich.de/RhXA4J_JTwebjYKG35TbuQ$},
abstract = {Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the most widely
used simulation techniques. About a third of world
supercomputing time is spent each year on such calculations.
DFT approximates the solution to the Schrödinger equation,
to elucidate the electronic structure of materials and
molecules. While it makes quantum many-body problems in a
lot of systems of interest tractable, it still is
computationally demanding. It typically scales in $O(N^3)$
with the number of electrons in the system, limiting its
application to systems with a few thousand atoms at most.
Over the last 15 years, the development of surrogate models
based on machine learning (ML) has steadily gained momentum
in the field of atomistic simulation. In ab initio molecular
dynamics for instance, machine-learned interatomic
potentials at a fraction of the cost and comparable accuracy
of mechanistic methods have already become mainstream. Now
these surrogate models also start to increasingly be
developed to predict the underlying electronic structure
properties of atomic systems directly.In this project, the
students will be given the chance to play around with a wide
array of state-of-the-art models in this field, from
traditional kernel methods to deep graph convolution
networks. They will be provided with a computational
infrastructure and training datasets from DFT calculations.
The challenges ladder they will climb has the rungs a)
understanding the electronic structure data, b)
understanding the reasoning behind the various surrogate ML
modeling approaches, c) discovering common features of the
atomic systems to come up with clever optimizations of the
model architectures, and d) achieving reasonable prediction
accuracy for the targeted electronic structure properties.
The project goals will be adjusted, in a reasonable range
given the limited time frame, according to the speed of
progress and the particular interests of the
students.Expected prerequisites: Applied Quantum Mechanics,
basic Python skills. Desired, but optional: Physics track,
some hands-on ML experience.Advisors : Johannes Wasmer,
Philipp Rüßmann , Stefan Blügel},
month = {Nov},
date = {2022-11-01},
organization = {RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
(Germany), 1 Nov 2022 - 1 Mar 2023},
subtyp = {Blog},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106},
pnm = {5211 - Topological Matter (POF4-521) / HDS LEE - Helmholtz
School for Data Science in Life, Earth and Energy (HDS LEE)
(HDS-LEE-20190612)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5211 / G:(DE-Juel1)HDS-LEE-20190612},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)17},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1020056},
}