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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 67: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory: Focus on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Real Materials 3
O 67.1: Talk
Thursday, September 8, 2022, 10:30–10:45, S054
Quantile Random Forest Model for Extrapolation to the Complete Basis Set Limit in Density Functional Theory Calculations — •Daniel Speckhard1, Christian Carbogno2, Sven Lubeck2, Luca Ghiringhelli2, Matthias Scheffler2, 1, and Claudia Draxl1, 2 — 1Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Physics Department and IRIS Adlershof, Berlin, Germany — 2The NOMAD Laboratory at the FHI-MPG and HU, Berlin, Germany
The precision of density-functional theory (DFT) calculations depends on a variety of computational parameters, the most critical being the basis-set size. With an infinitely large basis set, i.e., in the limit of a complete basis set (CBS), the result of the calculation is as precise as possible for the chosen exchange-correlation functional. Our aim in this work is to find a model that can extrapolate the result of an imprecise DFT calculation to the CBS limit. As a starting point, we use a dataset of 63 binary solids investigated with various basis-set sizes [1] with two all-electron DFT codes, exciting and FHI-aims, which use very different types of basis sets. A quantile random forest model is used to estimate the deviation of the total energy with respect to fully converged calculations as a function of the basis set size. The non-linear random forest model outperforms a previous approach that used a linear model. The quantile random forest model presented also provides prediction intervals which give the user an idea of the model’s uncertainty.
[1] C. Carbogno et al., npj Comput. Mater. 8, 69 (2022).