用数据驱动方法预测分子电荷密度,显著减少量子化学计算迭代次数。
ELECTRA: A Cartesian Network for 3D Charge Density Prediction with Floating Orbitals
- 基于笛卡尔张量网络学习浮动轨道位置与系数,突破传统原子中心限制。
- 在未见分子上平均减少50.72%的自洽场迭代次数,提升计算效率。
- 适合需要高效精准电子结构计算的研究者,尤其关注分子模拟加速。
我们提出电子张量重建算法(ELECTRA)——一种用于预测电子电荷密度的等变模型,采用浮动轨道。浮动轨道通过自由放置于空间而非固定于原子位置,可实现更紧凑且精确的表示,但其最优位置需大量领域知识,此前阻碍了广泛应用。ELECTRA通过数据驱动方式训练一个笛卡尔张量网络,联合预测轨道位置与系数。该方法利用对称性破缺机制,在保持电荷密度旋转等变性的前提下,学习低于输入分子对称性的位置偏移。受高斯点云在空间密度表示中的成功启发,我们使用高斯轨道并预测其权重和协方差矩阵。该方法在主流基准上实现了计算效率与预测精度的最优平衡。此外,使用预测密度初始化计算可使未见分子的自洽场(SCF)迭代平均减少50.72%,显著降低收敛所需时间。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present the Electronic Tensor Reconstruction Algorithm (ELECTRA) - an equivariant model for predicting electronic charge densities using floating orbitals. Floating orbitals are a long-standing concept in the quantum chemistry community that promises more compact and accurate representations by placing orbitals freely in space, as opposed to centering all orbitals at the position of atoms. Finding the ideal placement of these orbitals requires extensive domain knowledge, though, which thus far has prevented widespread adoption. We solve this in a data-driven manner by training a Cartesian tensor network to predict the orbital positions along with orbital coefficients. This is made possible through a symmetry-breaking mechanism that is used to learn position displacements with lower symmetry than the input molecule while preserving the rotation equivariance of the charge density itself. Inspired by recent successes of Gaussian Splatting in representing densities in space, we are using Gaussian orbitals and predicting their weights and covariance matrices. Our method achieves a state-of-the-art balance between computational efficiency and predictive accuracy on established benchmarks. Furthermore, ELECTRA is able to lower the compute time required to arrive at converged DFT solutions - initializing calculations using our predicted densities yields an average 50.72 % reduction in self-consistent field (SCF) iterations on unseen molecules.
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