Unsupervised representation learning of Kohn-Sham states and consequences for downstream predictions of many-body effects.

ABSTRACT: Representation learning for the electronic structure problem is a major challenge of machine learning in computational condensed matter and materials physics. Within quantum mechanical first principles approaches, density functional theory (DFT) is the preeminent tool for understanding electronic structure, and the high-dimensional DFT wavefunctions serve as building blocks for downstream calculations of correlated many-body excitations and related physical observables. Here, we use variational autoencoders (VAE) for the unsupervised learning of DFT wavefunctions and show that these wavefunctions lie in a low-dimensional manifold within latent space. Our model autonomously determines the optimal representation of the electronic structure, avoiding limitations due to manual feature engineer

SUBMITTER: Hou B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11531501 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature