Adaptive tensor train metadynamics for high-dimensional free energy exploration
arXiv:2603.13549 · doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.6c00487
Abstract
A key challenge for molecular dynamics simulations is efficient exploration of free energy landscapes over relevant collective variables (CV). Common methods for enhancing sampling become prohibitively inefficient beyond only a few CVs; in the case of the widely-used metadynamics method, the computational cost of evaluating and storing the bias potential grows exponentially with the number of dimensions. Here, we introduce TT-Metadynamics, in which the accumulated sum of Gaussian functions in the original metadynamics method is periodically compressed into a low-rank tensor train (TT) representation. The TT enables efficient memory use and prevents the computational cost of evaluating the bias potential from increasing with simulation time. We present a "sketching" algorithm that allows us to construct the TT with linear scaling in the number of CVs. Applied to benchmark systems with up to 14 CVs, the accuracy of TT-Metadynamics matches or exceeds that of standard metadynamics in long simulations, particularly in systems with high barriers. These results establish TT-Metadynamics as a scalable and effective method for computing free energies that are functions of several CVs.
67 pages, 57 figures (13 main, 44 supporting), 2 tables
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