Active Learning for Rapid Targeted Synthesis of Compositionally Complex Alloys

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Hauptverfasser: Johnson, Nathan, Mishra, Aashwin Ananda, Mehta, Apurva
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author Johnson, Nathan
Mishra, Aashwin Ananda
Mehta, Apurva
author_facet Johnson, Nathan
Mishra, Aashwin Ananda
Mehta, Apurva
contents The next generation of advanced materials is tending toward increasingly complex compositions. Synthesizing precise composition is time-consuming and becomes exponentially demanding with increasing compositional complexity. An experienced human operator does significantly better than a beginner but still struggles to consistently achieve precision when synthesis parameters are coupled. The time to optimize synthesis becomes a barrier to exploring scientifically and technologically exciting compositionally complex materials. This investigation demonstrates an Active Learning (AL) approach for optimizing physical vapor deposition synthesis of thin-film alloys with up to five principal elements. We compared AL based on Gaussian Process (GP) and Random Forest (RF) models. The best performing models were able to discover synthesis parameters for a target quinary alloy in 14 iterations. We also demonstrate the capability of these models to be used in transfer learning tasks. RF and GP models trained on lower dimensional systems (i.e. ternary, quarternary) show an immediate improvement in prediction accuracy compared to models trained only on quinary samples. Furthermore, samples that only share a few elements in common with the target composition can be used for model pre-training. We believe that such AL approaches can be widely adapted to significantly accelerate the exploration of compositionally complex materials.
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spellingShingle Active Learning for Rapid Targeted Synthesis of Compositionally Complex Alloys
Johnson, Nathan
Mishra, Aashwin Ananda
Mehta, Apurva
Materials Science
Computational Physics
The next generation of advanced materials is tending toward increasingly complex compositions. Synthesizing precise composition is time-consuming and becomes exponentially demanding with increasing compositional complexity. An experienced human operator does significantly better than a beginner but still struggles to consistently achieve precision when synthesis parameters are coupled. The time to optimize synthesis becomes a barrier to exploring scientifically and technologically exciting compositionally complex materials. This investigation demonstrates an Active Learning (AL) approach for optimizing physical vapor deposition synthesis of thin-film alloys with up to five principal elements. We compared AL based on Gaussian Process (GP) and Random Forest (RF) models. The best performing models were able to discover synthesis parameters for a target quinary alloy in 14 iterations. We also demonstrate the capability of these models to be used in transfer learning tasks. RF and GP models trained on lower dimensional systems (i.e. ternary, quarternary) show an immediate improvement in prediction accuracy compared to models trained only on quinary samples. Furthermore, samples that only share a few elements in common with the target composition can be used for model pre-training. We believe that such AL approaches can be widely adapted to significantly accelerate the exploration of compositionally complex materials.
title Active Learning for Rapid Targeted Synthesis of Compositionally Complex Alloys
topic Materials Science
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06329