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Anti-symmetric Barron functions and their approximation with sums of determinants

Numerical Analysis 2023-03-24 v1 Machine Learning Numerical Analysis Quantum Physics

Abstract

A fundamental problem in quantum physics is to encode functions that are completely anti-symmetric under permutations of identical particles. The Barron space consists of high-dimensional functions that can be parameterized by infinite neural networks with one hidden layer. By explicitly encoding the anti-symmetric structure, we prove that the anti-symmetric functions which belong to the Barron space can be efficiently approximated with sums of determinants. This yields a factorial improvement in complexity compared to the standard representation in the Barron space and provides a theoretical explanation for the effectiveness of determinant-based architectures in ab-initio quantum chemistry.

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@article{arxiv.2303.12856,
  title  = {Anti-symmetric Barron functions and their approximation with sums of determinants},
  author = {Nilin Abrahamsen and Lin Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12856},
  year   = {2023}
}