We introduce a Bayesian framework leveraging synthetic likelihoods to enable uncertainty quantification and robust inference of non-bonded force parameters in three-point water models.The approach integrates multiple ...We introduce a Bayesian framework leveraging synthetic likelihoods to enable uncertainty quantification and robust inference of non-bonded force parameters in three-point water models.The approach integrates multiple experimental observables—enthalpy of vaporization,molecular volume,the radial distribution function,and hydrogen bonding patterns—to explicitly infer model parameters.Beyond parameter estimation,we quantify uncertainty in both inference observables and validation properties,including those that are difficult to target by other means.By systematically analyzing the response of these observables to parameter variations,our method highlights inherent limitations of three-point water models.These findings highlight the utility of our framework in integrating diverse data sources in a principled uncertainty quantification workflow,ultimately improving confidence in the ability of molecular dynamics simulations to reproduce experimental data.Additionally,we evaluate the performance of the mean and the mode of the posterior distribution,demonstrating the limitations of this family of models.展开更多
基金This research was supported financially by the project AI4Research at Uppsala University,Sweden,and by the Swedish Research Council(grants 2020-05059,2024-04314)Funding from eSSENCE-The e-Science Collaboration(Uppsala-Lund-Ume˚a,Sweden)is gratefully acknowledged.Additional funding and support were provided by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics(CIM)at Uppsala UniversityComputer resources provided by the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing Sweden at the PDC Center for High Performance Computing,KTH Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden,partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through(grant 2022-06725).We also acknowledge the Molecular Biophysics program at Uppsala University for providing access to local computational resources.
文摘We introduce a Bayesian framework leveraging synthetic likelihoods to enable uncertainty quantification and robust inference of non-bonded force parameters in three-point water models.The approach integrates multiple experimental observables—enthalpy of vaporization,molecular volume,the radial distribution function,and hydrogen bonding patterns—to explicitly infer model parameters.Beyond parameter estimation,we quantify uncertainty in both inference observables and validation properties,including those that are difficult to target by other means.By systematically analyzing the response of these observables to parameter variations,our method highlights inherent limitations of three-point water models.These findings highlight the utility of our framework in integrating diverse data sources in a principled uncertainty quantification workflow,ultimately improving confidence in the ability of molecular dynamics simulations to reproduce experimental data.Additionally,we evaluate the performance of the mean and the mode of the posterior distribution,demonstrating the limitations of this family of models.