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Optimal invariant sets for atomistic machine learning

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Alice E. A. Allen
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Emily Shinkle
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Roxana Bujack
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Nicholas Lubbers *
DOI:10.1038/s41524-025-01948-0delete
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The representation of atomic configurations for machine learning models has led to numerous sets of descriptors. However, many descriptor sets are incomplete and/or functionally dependent. Incomplete sets cannot faithfully represent atomic environments. Yet complete constructions often suffer from a high degree of functional dependence, where some descriptors are functions of others. These redundant descriptors do not improve discrimination between atomic environments. We employ pattern recognition techniques to remove dependent descriptors to produce the smallest possible set that satisfies completeness. We apply this in two ways: First, we refine an existing description, the atomic cluster expansion. Second, we augment an incomplete construction, yielding a new message-passing neural network architecture that can recognize up to 5-body patterns. This architecture shows strong accuracy on state-of-the-art benchmarks while retaining low computational cost. Our results demonstrate the utility of this strategy to optimize descriptor sets across a range of descriptors and application datasets.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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