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SUMMARY:"Machine learning in chemistry and beyond" (ChE-651) seminar by Si
 mon Batzner "Equivariant Interatomic Potentials"
DTSTART:20220524T151500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Simon is a PhD student in Applied Mathematics at Harvard. Whil
 e interested in far too many things for his own good\, his research focuse
 s on building deep learning systems for applications in computational phys
 ics and chemistry. Before joining Harvard\, he worked on machine learning 
 at MIT and on the NASA mission SOFIA. In his free time\, you can find him 
 playing soccer\, hiking\, and swimming. He comes to Harvard having finishe
 d his Master's at MIT. He is originally from beautiful Illertissen\, Germa
 ny. \nRepresentations of atomistic structures for machine learning must t
 ransform predictably under the geometric transformations of 3D space\, in 
 particular rotation\, translation\, and reflection as well as permutation 
 of atoms of the same species. This requirement has traditionally been sati
 sfied by operating on descriptors of the atomistic geometry that remain in
 variant under the actions of the Euclidean group E(3)\, starting from the 
 Lennard-Jones potential all the way to today's machine learning approaches
 . In this talk\, I will discuss our efforts on generalizing the concept of
  invariant representations to the broader class of equivariant representat
 ions and will demonstrate how this leads to order-of-magnitude improvement
 s in accuracy\, sample efficiency and generalization. The talk will discus
 s in particular the Neural Equivariant Interatomic Potential (NequIP) [1] 
 and show applications to a variety of molecular and materials systems incl
 uding small molecules\, water\, a catalytic surface reaction\, glass form
 ation of a lithium phosphate\, and Li diffusion in a superionic conductor.
  I will discuss then the discovery of a remarkably enhanced power-law be
 haviour of the loss of equivariant interatomic potentials. Finally\, I wi
 ll show our recent efforts to scale equivariant neural networks to large-
 scale systems through the strictly local equivariant interatomic potential
  Allegro [2] and show how this allows us to simulate a 100-million-atom Mo
 lecular Dynamics simulation. I will conclude by outlining our current theo
 retical understanding of equivariant interatomic potentials as well as ope
 n research  questions. \n\n \n\n[1] In print\, Nature Communications\, 
 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2101.03164\n\n[2] Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2204.0
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