In this work, we introduce a flow based machine learning approach called reaction coordinate (RC) flow for the discovery of low-dimensional kinetic models of molecular systems. The RC flow utilizes a normalizing flow to design the coordinate transformation and a Brownian dynamics model to approximate the kinetics of RC, where all model parameters can be estimated in a data-driven manner. In contrast to existing model reduction methods for molecular kinetics, RC flow offers a trainable and tractable model of reduced kinetics in continuous time and space due to the invertibility of the normalizing flow. Furthermore, the Brownian dynamics-based reduced kinetic model investigated in this work yields a readily discernible representation of metastable states within the phase space of the molecular system. Numerical experiments demonstrate how effectively the proposed method discovers interpretable and accurate low-dimensional representations of given full-state kinetics from simulations.
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January 25 2024
Reaction coordinate flows for model reduction of molecular kinetics
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Hao Wu
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Hao Wu
a)
(Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft)
1
School of Mathematical Sciences, Institute of Natural Sciences and MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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Frank Noé
Frank Noé
a)
(Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing)
2
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin
, Berlin, Germany
3
Department of Chemistry, Rice University
, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
4
Microsoft Research AI4Science
, Berlin, Germany
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Hao Wu
1,a)
Frank Noé
2,3,4,a)
1
School of Mathematical Sciences, Institute of Natural Sciences and MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
2
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin
, Berlin, Germany
3
Department of Chemistry, Rice University
, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
4
Microsoft Research AI4Science
, Berlin, Germany
J. Chem. Phys. 160, 044109 (2024)
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Received:
September 11 2023
Accepted:
December 26 2023
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Hao Wu, Frank Noé; Reaction coordinate flows for model reduction of molecular kinetics. J. Chem. Phys. 28 January 2024; 160 (4): 044109. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0176078
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