Extensive deep neural networks for 2d materials

ORAL

Abstract

We present a procedure for training and evaluating a deep neural network which can efficiently infer extensive parameters of arbitrarily large systems, doing so with O(N) complexity. We use a form of domain decomposition for training and inference, where each sub-domain (tile) is comprised of a non-overlapping focus region surrounded by an overlapping context region. The relative sizes of focus and context are physically motivated and depend on the locality length scale of the problem. Extensive deep neural networks (EDNN) are a formulation of convolutional neural networks which provide a flexible and general approach, based on physical constraints, to describe multi-scale interactions. They are well suited to massively parallel inference, as no inter-thread communication is necessary during evaluation. Example uses for graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), as well as their 2d alloys are demonstrated.

*The authors acknowledge funding from NSERC and SOSCIP. Compute resources were provided by SOSCIP, National Research Council of Canada, and an NVIDIA Faculty Hardware Grant.

Presenters

  • Isaac Tamblyn

    • National Research Council of Canada

Authors

  • Iryna Luchak

    • University of British Columbia
  • Kyle Mills

    • University of Ontario
  • Kevin Ryczko

    • University of Ottawa
  • Adam Domurad

    • University of Waterloo
  • Christopher Beeler

    • University of Ontario
  • Isaac Tamblyn

    • National Research Council of Canada