Graph neural network-based structural classification of glass-forming liquids and its interpretation via self-attention mechanism

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Hauptverfasser: Yoshikawa, Kohei, Yano, Kentaro, Goto, Shota, Kim, Kang, Matubayasi, Nobuyuki
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author Yoshikawa, Kohei
Yano, Kentaro
Goto, Shota
Kim, Kang
Matubayasi, Nobuyuki
author_facet Yoshikawa, Kohei
Yano, Kentaro
Goto, Shota
Kim, Kang
Matubayasi, Nobuyuki
contents Glass-forming liquids exhibit slow dynamics below their melting temperatures, maintaining an amorphous structure reminiscent of normal liquids. Distinguishing microscopic structures in the supercooled and high-temperature regimes remains a debated topic. Building on recent advances in machine learning, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), our study automatically extracts features, unveiling fundamental mechanisms driving structural changes at varying temperatures. We employ the self-attention mechanism to generate attention coefficients that quantify the importance of connections between graph nodes, providing insights into the rationale behind GNN predictions. Exploring structural changes with decreasing temperature through the GNN+self-attention using physically-defined structural descriptors, including the bond-orientational order parameter, Voronoi cell volume, and coordination number, we identify strong correlations between high attention coefficients and more disordered structures as a key indicator of variations in glass-forming liquids.
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spellingShingle Graph neural network-based structural classification of glass-forming liquids and its interpretation via self-attention mechanism
Yoshikawa, Kohei
Yano, Kentaro
Goto, Shota
Kim, Kang
Matubayasi, Nobuyuki
Soft Condensed Matter
Glass-forming liquids exhibit slow dynamics below their melting temperatures, maintaining an amorphous structure reminiscent of normal liquids. Distinguishing microscopic structures in the supercooled and high-temperature regimes remains a debated topic. Building on recent advances in machine learning, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), our study automatically extracts features, unveiling fundamental mechanisms driving structural changes at varying temperatures. We employ the self-attention mechanism to generate attention coefficients that quantify the importance of connections between graph nodes, providing insights into the rationale behind GNN predictions. Exploring structural changes with decreasing temperature through the GNN+self-attention using physically-defined structural descriptors, including the bond-orientational order parameter, Voronoi cell volume, and coordination number, we identify strong correlations between high attention coefficients and more disordered structures as a key indicator of variations in glass-forming liquids.
title Graph neural network-based structural classification of glass-forming liquids and its interpretation via self-attention mechanism
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00993