Source code for netket.driver.vmc
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from typing import Optional
from textwrap import dedent
from inspect import signature
from netket.utils.types import PyTree
from netket.operator import AbstractOperator
from netket.stats import Stats
from netket.vqs import MCState
from netket.optimizer import (
identity_preconditioner,
PreconditionerT,
_DeprecatedPreconditionerSignature,
)
from netket.jax import tree_cast
from .vmc_common import info
from .abstract_variational_driver import AbstractVariationalDriver
[docs]class VMC(AbstractVariationalDriver):
"""
Energy minimization using Variational Monte Carlo (VMC).
"""
[docs] def __init__(
self,
hamiltonian: AbstractOperator,
optimizer,
*args,
variational_state=None,
preconditioner: PreconditionerT = identity_preconditioner,
**kwargs,
):
"""
Initializes the driver class.
Args:
hamiltonian: The Hamiltonian of the system.
optimizer: Determines how optimization steps are performed given the
bare energy gradient.
preconditioner: Determines which preconditioner to use for the loss gradient.
This must be a tuple of `(object, solver)` as documented in the section
`preconditioners` in the documentation. The standard preconditioner
included with NetKet is Stochastic Reconfiguration. By default, no
preconditioner is used and the bare gradient is passed to the optimizer.
"""
if variational_state is None:
variational_state = MCState(*args, **kwargs)
if variational_state.hilbert != hamiltonian.hilbert:
raise TypeError(
dedent(
f"""the variational_state has hilbert space {variational_state.hilbert}
(this is normally defined by the hilbert space in the sampler), but
the hamiltonian has hilbert space {hamiltonian.hilbert}.
The two should match.
"""
)
)
super().__init__(variational_state, optimizer, minimized_quantity_name="Energy")
self._ham = hamiltonian.collect() # type: AbstractOperator
self.preconditioner = preconditioner
self._dp: PyTree = None
self._S = None
self._sr_info = None
@property
def preconditioner(self):
"""
The preconditioner used to modify the gradient.
This is a function with the following signature
.. code-block:: python
precondtioner(vstate: VariationalState,
grad: PyTree,
step: Optional[Scalar] = None)
Where the first argument is a variational state, the second argument
is the PyTree of the gradient to precondition and the last optional
argument is the step, used to change some parameters along the
optimisation.
Often, this is taken to be :func:`~netket.optimizer.SR`. If it is
set to `None`, then the identity is used.
"""
return self._preconditioner
@preconditioner.setter
def preconditioner(self, val: Optional[PreconditionerT]):
if val is None:
val = identity_preconditioner
if len(signature(val).parameters) == 2:
val = _DeprecatedPreconditionerSignature(val)
self._preconditioner = val
def _forward_and_backward(self):
"""
Performs a number of VMC optimization steps.
Args:
n_steps (int): Number of steps to perform.
"""
self.state.reset()
# Compute the local energy estimator and average Energy
self._loss_stats, self._loss_grad = self.state.expect_and_grad(self._ham)
# if it's the identity it does
# self._dp = self._loss_grad
self._dp = self.preconditioner(self.state, self._loss_grad, self.step_count)
# If parameters are real, then take only real part of the gradient (if it's complex)
self._dp = tree_cast(self._dp, self.state.parameters)
return self._dp
@property
def energy(self) -> Stats:
"""
Return MCMC statistics for the expectation value of observables in the
current state of the driver.
"""
return self._loss_stats
def __repr__(self):
return (
"Vmc("
+ f"\n step_count = {self.step_count},"
+ f"\n state = {self.state})"
)
[docs] def info(self, depth=0):
lines = [
f"{name}: {info(obj, depth=depth + 1)}"
for name, obj in [
("Hamiltonian ", self._ham),
("Optimizer ", self._optimizer),
("Preconditioner ", self.preconditioner),
("State ", self.state),
]
]
return "\n{}".format(" " * 3 * (depth + 1)).join([str(self), *lines])