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A Swarm Variant for the Schr\"odinger Solver

Machine Learning 2021-04-21 v2 Neural and Evolutionary Computing Optimization and Control

Abstract

This paper introduces application of the Exponentially Averaged Momentum Particle Swarm Optimization (EM-PSO) as a derivative-free optimizer for Neural Networks. It adopts PSO's major advantages such as search space exploration and higher robustness to local minima compared to gradient-descent optimizers such as Adam. Neural network based solvers endowed with gradient optimization are now being used to approximate solutions to Differential Equations. Here, we demonstrate the novelty of EM-PSO in approximating gradients and leveraging the property in solving the Schr\"odinger equation, for the Particle-in-a-Box problem. We also provide the optimal set of hyper-parameters supported by mathematical proofs, suited for our algorithm.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.04795,
  title  = {A Swarm Variant for the Schr\"odinger Solver},
  author = {Urvil Nileshbhai Jivani and Omatharv Bharat Vaidya and Anwesh Bhattacharya and Snehanshu Saha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04795},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures, Accepted at IJCNN 2021

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