The development of accurate water models is of primary importance for molecular simulations. Despite their intrinsic approximations, three-site rigid water models are still ubiquitously used to simulate a variety of molecular systems. Automatic optimization approaches have been recently used to iteratively refine three-site water models to fit macroscopic (average) thermodynamic properties, providing state-of-the-art three-site models that still present some deviations from the liquid water properties. Here, we show the results obtained by automatically optimizing three-site rigid water models to fit a combination of microscopic and macroscopic experimental observables. We use Swarm-CG, a multiobjective particle-swarm-optimization algorithm, for training the models to reproduce the experimental radial distribution functions of liquid water at various temperatures (rich in microscopic-level information on, e.g., the local orientation and interactions of the water molecules). We systematically analyze the agreement of these models with experimental observables and the effect of adding macroscopic information to the training set. Our results demonstrate how adding microscopic-rich information in the training of water models allows one to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in an efficient way. Limitations in the approach and in the approximated description of water in these three-site models are also discussed, providing a demonstrative case useful for the optimization of approximated molecular models, in general.
Lessons learned from multi-objective automatic optimizations of classical three-site rigid water models using microscopic and macroscopic target experimental observables / Perrone, Mattia; Capelli, Riccardo; Empereur-mot, Charly; Hassanali, Ali; Pavan, Giovanni M.. - In: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA. - ISSN 0021-9568. - 68:12(2023), pp. 3228-3241. [10.1021/acs.jced.3c00538]
Lessons learned from multi-objective automatic optimizations of classical three-site rigid water models using microscopic and macroscopic target experimental observables
Mattia Perrone;Riccardo Capelli;Giovanni M. Pavan
2023
Abstract
The development of accurate water models is of primary importance for molecular simulations. Despite their intrinsic approximations, three-site rigid water models are still ubiquitously used to simulate a variety of molecular systems. Automatic optimization approaches have been recently used to iteratively refine three-site water models to fit macroscopic (average) thermodynamic properties, providing state-of-the-art three-site models that still present some deviations from the liquid water properties. Here, we show the results obtained by automatically optimizing three-site rigid water models to fit a combination of microscopic and macroscopic experimental observables. We use Swarm-CG, a multiobjective particle-swarm-optimization algorithm, for training the models to reproduce the experimental radial distribution functions of liquid water at various temperatures (rich in microscopic-level information on, e.g., the local orientation and interactions of the water molecules). We systematically analyze the agreement of these models with experimental observables and the effect of adding macroscopic information to the training set. Our results demonstrate how adding microscopic-rich information in the training of water models allows one to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in an efficient way. Limitations in the approach and in the approximated description of water in these three-site models are also discussed, providing a demonstrative case useful for the optimization of approximated molecular models, in general.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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