Reward driven discovery of the optimal microstructure representations with invariant variational autoencoders
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| author | Slautin, Boris N. Barakati, Kamyar Funakubo, Hiroshi Ziatdinov, Maxim A. Shvartsman, Vladimir V. Lupascu, Doru C. Kalinin, Sergei V. |
| author_facet | Slautin, Boris N. Barakati, Kamyar Funakubo, Hiroshi Ziatdinov, Maxim A. Shvartsman, Vladimir V. Lupascu, Doru C. Kalinin, Sergei V. |
| contents | Microscopy techniques generate vast amounts of complex image data that in principle can be used to discover simpler, interpretable, and parsimonious forms to reveal the underlying physical structures, such as elementary building blocks in molecular systems or order parameters and phases in crystalline materials. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a powerful means of constructing such low-dimensional representations, but their performance heavily depends on multiple non-myopic design choices, which are often optimized through trial-and-error and empirical analysis. To enable automated and unbiased optimization of VAE workflows, we investigated reward-based strategies for evaluating latent space representations. Using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy data as a model system, we examined multiple policies and reward functions that can serve as a foundation for automated optimization. Our analysis shows that approximating the latent space with Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Models (BGMM) provides a strong basis for constructing reward functions capable of estimating model efficiency and guiding the search for optimal parsimonious representations. |
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| spellingShingle | Reward driven discovery of the optimal microstructure representations with invariant variational autoencoders Slautin, Boris N. Barakati, Kamyar Funakubo, Hiroshi Ziatdinov, Maxim A. Shvartsman, Vladimir V. Lupascu, Doru C. Kalinin, Sergei V. Machine Learning Materials Science Microscopy techniques generate vast amounts of complex image data that in principle can be used to discover simpler, interpretable, and parsimonious forms to reveal the underlying physical structures, such as elementary building blocks in molecular systems or order parameters and phases in crystalline materials. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a powerful means of constructing such low-dimensional representations, but their performance heavily depends on multiple non-myopic design choices, which are often optimized through trial-and-error and empirical analysis. To enable automated and unbiased optimization of VAE workflows, we investigated reward-based strategies for evaluating latent space representations. Using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy data as a model system, we examined multiple policies and reward functions that can serve as a foundation for automated optimization. Our analysis shows that approximating the latent space with Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Models (BGMM) provides a strong basis for constructing reward functions capable of estimating model efficiency and guiding the search for optimal parsimonious representations. |
| title | Reward driven discovery of the optimal microstructure representations with invariant variational autoencoders |
| topic | Machine Learning Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00243 |