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One of the fundamental problems in machine learning is the estimation of a probability distribution from data. Many techniques have been proposed to study the structure of data, most often building around the assumption that observations…

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Orbital-free density functional theory promises to deliver linear-scaling electronic structure calculations. This requires the knowledge of the non-interacting kinetic-energy density functional (KEDF), which should be accurate and must…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-12 Michael A. J. Mitchell , Teresa Del Aguila Ferrandis , Stefano Sanvito

Machine learning has made important headway in helping to improve the treatment of quantum many-body systems. A domain of particular relevance are correlated inhomogeneous systems. What has been missing so far is a general, scalable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Alex Blania , Sandro Herbig , Fabian Dechent , Evert van Nieuwenburg , Florian Marquardt

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

We consider the problem of identifying universal low-dimensional features from high-dimensional data for inference tasks in settings involving learning. For such problems, we introduce natural notions of universality and we show a local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shao-Lun Huang , Anuran Makur , Gregory W. Wornell , Lizhong Zheng

Electron density is a fundamental quantity, which can in principle determine all ground state electronic properties of a given system. Although machine learning (ML) models for electron density based on either an atom-centered basis or a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Chaoqiang Feng , Yaolong Zhang , Bin Jiang

Natural data observed in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is often constrained to an $m$-dimensional manifold $\mathcal{M}$, where $m < n$. This work focuses on the task of building theoretically principled generative models for such data. Current generative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-25 Brendan Leigh Ross , Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Anthony L. Caterini , Jesse C. Cresswell

Faithful representations of atomic environments and general models for regression can be harnessed to learn electron densities that are close to the ground state. One of the applications of data-derived electron densities is to orbital-free…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-01 Andrew T. Fowler , Chris J. Pickard , James A. Elliott

We address the degree to which machine learning can be used to accurately and transferably predict post-Hartree-Fock correlation energies. Refined strategies for feature design and selection are presented, and the molecular-orbital-based…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Lixue Cheng , Matthew Welborn , Anders S. Christensen , Thomas F. Miller

The distributional reinforcement learning (RL) approach advocates for representing the complete probability distribution of the random return instead of only modelling its expectation. A distributional RL algorithm may be characterised by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Thibaut Théate , Antoine Wehenkel , Adrien Bolland , Gilles Louppe , Damien Ernst

Machine Learning (ML) models in Robotic Assembly Sequence Planning (RASP) need to be introspective on the predicted solutions, i.e. whether they are feasible or not, to circumvent potential efficiency degradation. Previous works need both…

Randomized neural networks (NNs) are an interesting alternative to conventional NNs that are more used for data modeling. The random vector functional-link (RVFL) network is an established and theoretically well-grounded randomized learning…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-24 Hien D. Nguyen , Dianhui Wang , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Machine learning (ML) is rapidly transforming the way molecular dynamics simulations are performed and analyzed, from materials modeling to studies of protein folding and function. ML algorithms are often employed to learn low-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-23 Jayashrita Debnath , Gerhard Hummer

The problem of distance metric learning is mostly considered from the perspective of learning an embedding space, where the distances between pairs of examples are in correspondence with a similarity metric. With the rise and success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Hongyang Chao , Tao Mei

We study inhomogeneous one-dimensional Hubbard systems using the density matrix renormalization group method. Different heterostructures are investigated whose configuration is modeled varying parameters like the on-site Coulomb potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yesenia Arredondo , Hartmut Monien

Density functional theory (DFT) is routinely employed in material science and in quantum chemistry to simulate weakly correlated electronic systems. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been adopted to develop promising functionals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Emanuele Costa , Rosario Fazio , Sebastiano Pilati

The first thermospheric neutral mass density model with robust and reliable uncertainty estimates is developed based on the SET HASDM density database. This database, created by Space Environment Technologies (SET), contains 20 years of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Richard J. Licata , Piyush M. Mehta , W. Kent Tobiska , S. Huzurbazar

In this work, we propose a machine learning-based approach to address a specific aspect of the Quantum Marginal Problem: reconstructing a global density matrix compatible with a given set of quantum marginals. Our method integrates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel Uzcategui-Contreras , Antonio Guerra , Sebastian Niklitschek , Aldo Delgado

Owing to its high scalability and computational efficiency, machine learning methods have been increasingly integrated into various scientific research domains, including ab initio-based materials design. It has been demonstrated that, by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-16 Feng Chen , Shu Li , Xin Chen , Dennis Wong , Biplab Sanyal , Duo Wang

The thermodynamics of the inhomogeneous one-dimensional repulsive fermionic Hubbard model with parabolic confinement is studied by a density-functional theory approach, based on Mermin's generalization to finite temperatures. A…

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