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, Optimizer
from netket.operator import AbstractOperator
from netket.stats import Stats
from netket.optimizer import (
    identity_preconditioner,
    PreconditionerT,
    _DeprecatedPreconditionerSignature,
)
from netket.vqs import VariationalState
from netket.jax import tree_cast

from .abstract_variational_driver import AbstractVariationalDriver


[docs] class VMC(AbstractVariationalDriver): """ Energy minimization using Variational Monte Carlo (VMC). """
[docs] def __init__( self, hamiltonian: AbstractOperator, optimizer: Optimizer, *, variational_state: VariationalState, preconditioner: PreconditionerT = identity_preconditioner, ): """ Initializes the driver class. Args: hamiltonian: The Hamiltonian of the system. optimizer: Determines how optimization steps are performed given the bare energy gradient. variational_state: The variational state for which the hamiltonian must be minimised. 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.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
@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})" )