Abstract
We present an approach to modeling the ground-state mass of atomic nuclei based directly on a probabilistic neural network constrained by relevant physics. Our physically interpretable machine learning (PIML) approach incorporates knowledge of physics by using a physically motivated feature space in addition to a soft physics constraint that is implemented as a penalty to the loss function. We train our PIML model on a random set of approximately 20% of the atomic mass evaluation (AME) and predict the remaining 80%. The success of our methodology is exhibited by a keV match to data for the training set and keV for the entire AME with . We show that our general methodology can be interpreted using feature importance.
- Received 4 March 2022
- Revised 10 May 2022
- Accepted 21 July 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.106.L021301
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