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Workshop: Differentiable Almost Everything: Differentiable Relaxations, Algorithms, Operators, and Simulators

Optimizing probability of barrier crossing with differentiable simulators

Martin Šípka · Johannes Dietschreit · Michal Pavelka · Lukáš Grajciar · Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli


Abstract:

Simulating events that involve some energy barrier often requires us to promote the barrier crossing in order to increase the probability of the event. One example of such a system can be a chemical reaction which we propose to explore using differentiable simulations. Transition path discovery and estimation of the reaction barrier are merged into a single end-to-end problem that is solved by path-integral optimization. We show how the probability of transition can be formulated in a differentiable way and increase it by introducing a trainable position dependent bias function. We also introduce improvements over standard methods making DiffSim training stable and efficient.

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