Machine learning for quantum mechanics in a nutshell

Abstract

Models that combine quantum mechanics (QM) with machine learning (ML) promise to deliver the accuracy of QM at the speed of ML. This hands-on tutorial introduces the reader to QM/ML models based on kernel learning, an elegant, systematically nonlinear form of ML. Pseudocode and a reference implementation are provided, enabling the reader to reproduce results from recent publications where atomization energies of small organic molecules are predicted using kernel ridge regression.