Towards Combinatorial Generalization for Catalysts: A Kohn-Sham Charge-Density Approach
The Kohn-Sham equations underlie many important applications such as the discovery of new catalysts. Recent machine learning work on catalyst modeling has focused on prediction of the energy, but has so far not yet demonstrated significant out-of-distribution generalization. Here we investigate another approach based on the pointwise learning of the Kohn-Sham charge-density. On a new dataset of bulk catalysts with charge densities, we show density models can generalize to new structures with combinations of elements not seen at train time, a form of combinatorial generalization. We show that over 80% of binary and ternary test cases achieve faster convergence than standard baselines in Density Functional Theory, amounting to an average reduction of 13% in the number of iterations required to reach convergence, which may be of independent interest. Our results suggest that density learning is a viable alternative, trading greater inference costs for a step towards combinatorial generalization, a key property for applications.
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