Autotest for cutoffs optimization

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Autotest for cutoffs optimization

Post by Vladimir_Konjkov »

Hello casino developers

I encountered a not completely clear issue in the latest version - JASTROW cutoff values are either not optimized at all or optimized worse than in previous CASINO versions.

I tried to understand whether this case is checked in autotests and how, but I did not find it.
Perhaps this is difficult to verify due to the random value of optimized VMC energy, but now even for simple monatomic systems the optimized VMC energies are underestimated by a dozen standard errors.

I will be grateful if you help me write the appropriate autotest.

Best Vladimir.

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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

Post by Pablo_Lopez_Rios »

Hi Vladimir,

Could you post input/output files for an example in which the Jastrow cutoffs are well optimised by an older version (which?) and poorly optimised by the latest version of CASINO?

Thanks,
Pablo
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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

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Dear Vladimir,

Here's a very quick test. For a 27-electron r_s=4 3D electron gas with a Jastrow factor containing a U term only, if I start from a cutoff length of L=4 a.u. and optimise the linear parameters together with the cutoff using variance minimisation:

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  VMC #1: E     = -0.0497(1) ; var  = 1.30(4) (correlation.out.0)
  VMC #2: E     = -0.06432(9) ; var  = 0.395(6) (correlation.out.1)
  VMC #3: E     = -0.06907(7) ; var  = 0.247(3) (correlation.out.2)
  VMC #4: E     = -0.07327(5) ; var  = 0.134(2) (correlation.out.3)
  VMC #5: E     = -0.07340(5) ; var  = 0.124(2) (correlation.out.4)
  VMC #6: E     = -0.07581(3) ; var  = 0.0552(8) (correlation.out.5)
  VMC #7: E     = -0.07644(3) ; var  = 0.0401(8) (correlation.out.6)
  VMC #8: E     = -0.07637(3) ; var  = 0.0397(8) (correlation.out.7)
  VMC #9: E     = -0.07639(3) ; var  = 0.0397(8) (correlation.out.8)
C.f., if L is fixed:

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  VMC #1: E     = -0.0500(2) ; var  = 1.34(7) (correlation.out.0)
  VMC #2: E     = -0.0578(1) ; var  = 0.612(7) (correlation.out.1)
  VMC #3: E     = -0.0580(1) ; var  = 0.613(7) (correlation.out.2)
  VMC #4: E     = -0.0581(1) ; var  = 0.614(7) (correlation.out.3)
  VMC #5: E     = -0.0582(1) ; var  = 0.603(7) (correlation.out.4)
  VMC #6: E     = -0.0578(1) ; var  = 0.609(7) (correlation.out.5)
  VMC #7: E     = -0.0578(1) ; var  = 0.610(7) (correlation.out.6)
  VMC #8: E     = -0.0578(1) ; var  = 0.615(7) (correlation.out.7)
  VMC #9: E     = -0.0577(1) ; var  = 0.627(9) (correlation.out.8)
So optimising the cutoff length does seem to work in this case at least.

Best wishes,

Neil.
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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

Post by Vladimir_Konjkov »

Pablo_Lopez_Rios wrote:Hi Vladimir,

Could you post input/output files for an example in which the Jastrow cutoffs are well optimised by an older version (which?) and poorly optimised by the latest version of CASINO?

Thanks,
Pablo
Yes, here is a simple example that I found - old version and new version
8_8_44__test.tgz
new version
(63.37 KiB) Downloaded 1178 times
archive symlinks point to the same files in the old version.

old VMC energy

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 VMC #1: E     = -24.531(5) ; var  = 5.2(4) (correlation.out.0, parameters.0.casl)
 VMC #2: E     = -24.6101(7) ; var  = 0.111(1) (correlation.out.1, parameters.1.casl)
 VMC #3: E     = -24.6208(7) ; var  = 0.1724(9) (correlation.out.2, parameters.2.casl)
 VMC #4: E     = -24.6214(7) ; var  = 0.179(2) (correlation.out.3, parameters.3.casl)
 VMC #5: E     = -24.6240(7) ; var  = 0.179(1) (correlation.out.4, parameters.4.casl)
 VMC #6: E     = -24.6240(9) ; var  = 0.3(2) (correlation.out.5, parameters.5.casl)
 VMC #7: E     = -24.6244(7) ; var  = 0.168(1) (correlation.out.6, parameters.6.casl)
 VMC #8: E     = -24.6242(7) ; var  = 0.169(2) (correlation.out.7, parameters.7.casl)
 VMC #9: E     = -24.6240(7) ; var  = 0.171(3) (correlation.out.8, parameters.8.casl)
 VMC #10: E     = -24.6244(7) ; var  = 0.170(1) (correlation.out.9, parameters.9.casl)
new VMC energy

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 VMC #1: E     = -24.527(5) ; var  = 5.2(3) (correlation.out.0, parameters.0.casl)
 VMC #2: E     = -24.6110(8) ; var  = 0.163(1) (correlation.out.1, parameters.1.casl)
 VMC #3: E     = -24.6117(8) ; var  = 0.167(1) (correlation.out.2, parameters.2.casl)
 VMC #4: E     = -24.6118(8) ; var  = 0.183(1) (correlation.out.3, parameters.3.casl)
 VMC #5: E     = -24.6155(8) ; var  = 0.190(1) (correlation.out.4, parameters.4.casl)
 VMC #6: E     = -24.6149(8) ; var  = 0.191(2) (correlation.out.5, parameters.5.casl)
 VMC #7: E     = -24.6154(8) ; var  = 0.190(1) (correlation.out.6, parameters.6.casl)
 VMC #8: E     = -24.6147(8) ; var  = 0.192(2) (correlation.out.7, parameters.7.casl)
 VMC #9: E     = -24.6149(8) ; var  = 0.191(2) (correlation.out.8, parameters.8.casl)
 VMC #10: E     = -24.6154(8) ; var  = 0.192(3) (correlation.out.9, parameters.9.casl)
I haven’t done calculations for a long time so I can’t say exactly when an issue occurred.

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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

Post by Pablo_Lopez_Rios »

Hi Vladimir,

After a quick bisect, this seems to be due to commit v2.13.819 (a1a58085 by Neil) in which some BLAS calls were replaced with inline code. Maybe this commit just introduced numerical instabilities hindering the optimisation of gjastrow cut-offs, but it might be worth verifying that this is not a bug, and perhaps check if undoing the changes to the gjastrow and gbasis modules fixes this.

Best,
Pablo
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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

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Dear Both,

Optimisation of cutoff lengths has always been challenging and numerically sensitive. These days I tend to fix the cutoff lengths at sensible values rather than attempt to optimise them. In the present case, fixing L_u=10, L_chi=8 and L_f=7 a.u. works OK:

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  VMC #1: E     = -24.588(2) ; var  = 0.809(4) (correlation.out.0)
  VMC #2: E     = -24.625(1) ; var  = 0.177(2) (correlation.out.1)
  VMC #3: E     = -24.624(1) ; var  = 0.176(1) (correlation.out.2)
  VMC #4: E     = -24.625(1) ; var  = 0.180(3) (correlation.out.3)
  VMC #5: E     = -24.625(1) ; var  = 0.177(2) (correlation.out.4)
  VMC #6: E     = -24.626(1) ; var  = 0.176(1) (correlation.out.5)
  VMC #7: E     = -24.628(1) ; var  = 0.180(2) (correlation.out.6)
  VMC #8: E     = -24.627(1) ; var  = 0.178(3) (correlation.out.7)
  VMC #9: E     = -24.6264(8) ; var  = 0.177(1) (correlation.out.8)
Using different f terms for parallel and antiparallel spin pairs gives slightly better results:

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  VMC #1: E     = -24.601(1) ; var  = 0.278(1) (correlation.out.0)
  VMC #2: E     = -24.6276(9) ; var  = 0.17(5) (correlation.out.1)
  VMC #3: E     = -24.6297(8) ; var  = 0.135(1) (correlation.out.2)
  VMC #4: E     = -24.6303(8) ; var  = 0.138(2) (correlation.out.3)
  VMC #5: E     = -24.6292(8) ; var  = 0.137(2) (correlation.out.4)
Best wishes,

Neil.
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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

Post by Vladimir_Konjkov »

thanks Nail for intriguing me...I used the CASL format so there are no u, chi, f terms, at least in the configuration file.

For each maximum degree of polynomial approximation of each term there is an optimal cutoff.

Is it possible to see the complete set of files for the above example, and it is also interesting how the WFN was obtained.

I tried to figure out how much better JASTROW approximation improves the quality of subsequent BACKFLOW approximation.

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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

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Dear Vladimir,

The form of Jastrow that you are using is essentially the same that I used: the three terms in your Jastrow factor are u (homogeneous electron-electron), chi (electron-nucleus) and f (electron-electron-nucleus).

Best wishes,

Neil.
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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

Post by Vladimir_Konjkov »

Neil Drummond wrote:Dear Vladimir,

The form of Jastrow that you are using is essentially the same that I used: the three terms in your Jastrow factor are u (homogeneous electron-electron), chi (electron-nucleus) and f (electron-electron-nucleus).

Best wishes,

Neil.
I meant that JASTROW factor in CASINO can be described in two significantly different formats - "Drummond-Towler-Needs form" or "Pablo Lopez Rios form"

I made additional calculations and found out that for the first form, optimization of cutoffs works, but for the second one it doesn’t, as Pablo wrote after commit v2.13.819.

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Re: Autotest for cutoffs optimization

Post by Neil Drummond »

Dear Vladimir & Pablo,

You're right: I broke gjastrow optimisation in the patch that Pablo indicated. I've just sent a patch fixing the issue to Mike. Thanks very much for pointing out the problem, and I'm very sorry about the inconvenience.

The above results of playing around with the pjastrow wave function still apply, however: you can get a good wave function by fixing the cutoff lengths at a plausible value, and there is scope for improving the wave function by using different electron-electron-nucleus terms for parallel and antiparallel spins. Bases other than natural powers (available in gjastrow) might give further improvements to the wave function for an isolated atom.

Best wishes,

Neil.
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