Post-Activation Function for Managing the Behavior of a Neural Network Potential with a Low-Dimensional Potential

21 April 2023, Version 1
This content is a preprint and has not undergone peer review at the time of posting.

Abstract

Machine-learned representations of potential energy surfaces generated in the output layer of a feedforward neural network are becoming increasingly popular. One difficulty with neural-network output is that it is often unreliable in regions where training data is missing or sparse. Human-designed potentials often build in proper extrapolation behavior by choice of functional form. Because machine learning is very efficient, it is desirable to learn how to add human intelligence to machine-learned potentials in a convenient way. One example is the well understood feature of interaction potentials that they vanish when subsystems are too far separated to interact. In this article, we present a way to add a post-activation step to a neural network to enforce low-dimensional constraints. We illustrate the use of this step by showing how it can force an interaction potential to go to zero at large subsystem separations with either inputting a specific functional form for the potential or adding data to the training set in the asymptotic region of geometries where the subsystems are separated. In the process of illustrating this, we present an improved set of potential energy surfaces for the 14 lowest 3A´ states of O3. The method is more general than this example, and it may be used to add other low-dimensional knowledge to machine-learned potentials. As an example, we present a greater-generality method called physically managed diabatization by deep neural network (PM-DDNN) that is an improvement on our previously presented permutationally restrained diabatization by deep neural network (PR-DDNN).

Keywords

Potential Energy Surface
Nonadiabatic
Neural Network
Machine Learning
Oxygen
Activation Function

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