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Hauptverfasser: Lan, Zishuo, Zeng, Qionghuan, Ma, Weilong, Liang, Xiangju, Li, Yue, Chen, Yu, Chen, Yiming, Hu, Xiaobing, Li, Junjie, Wang, Lei, Zhang, Jing, Wang, Zhijun, Wang, Jincheng
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author Lan, Zishuo
Zeng, Qionghuan
Ma, Weilong
Liang, Xiangju
Li, Yue
Chen, Yu
Chen, Yiming
Hu, Xiaobing
Li, Junjie
Wang, Lei
Zhang, Jing
Wang, Zhijun
Wang, Jincheng
author_facet Lan, Zishuo
Zeng, Qionghuan
Ma, Weilong
Liang, Xiangju
Li, Yue
Chen, Yu
Chen, Yiming
Hu, Xiaobing
Li, Junjie
Wang, Lei
Zhang, Jing
Wang, Zhijun
Wang, Jincheng
contents Phase-field (PF) simulation provides a powerful framework for predicting microstructural evolution but suffers from prohibitive computational costs that severely limit accessible spatiotemporal scales in practical applications. While data-driven methods have emerged as promising approaches for accelerating PF simulations, existing methods require extensive training data from numerous evolution trajectories, and their inherent black-box nature raises concerns about long-term prediction reliability. This work demonstrates, through examples of grain growth and spinodal decomposition, that a minimalist Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained with a remarkably small dataset even from a single small-scale simulation can achieve seamless scalability to larger systems and reliable long-term predictions far beyond the temporal range of the training data. The key insight of this work lies in revealing that the success of CNN-based models stems from the alignment between their inductive biases and the physical priors of phase-field simulations specifically, locality and spatiotemporal translation invariance. Through effective receptive field analysis, we verify that the model captures these essential properties during training. Therefore, from a reductionist perspective, the surrogate model essentially establishes a spatiotemporally invariant regression mapping between a grid point's local environment and its subsequent state. Further analysis of the model's feature space demonstrates that microstructural evolution effectively represents a continuous redistribution of a finite set of local environments. When the model has already encountered nearly all possible local environments in the early-stage training data, it can reliably generalize to much longer evolution timescales, regardless of the dramatic changes in global microstructural morphology.
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spellingShingle Scalable data-driven modeling of microstructure evolution by learning local dependency and spatiotemporal translation invariance rules in phase field simulation
Lan, Zishuo
Zeng, Qionghuan
Ma, Weilong
Liang, Xiangju
Li, Yue
Chen, Yu
Chen, Yiming
Hu, Xiaobing
Li, Junjie
Wang, Lei
Zhang, Jing
Wang, Zhijun
Wang, Jincheng
Materials Science
Phase-field (PF) simulation provides a powerful framework for predicting microstructural evolution but suffers from prohibitive computational costs that severely limit accessible spatiotemporal scales in practical applications. While data-driven methods have emerged as promising approaches for accelerating PF simulations, existing methods require extensive training data from numerous evolution trajectories, and their inherent black-box nature raises concerns about long-term prediction reliability. This work demonstrates, through examples of grain growth and spinodal decomposition, that a minimalist Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained with a remarkably small dataset even from a single small-scale simulation can achieve seamless scalability to larger systems and reliable long-term predictions far beyond the temporal range of the training data. The key insight of this work lies in revealing that the success of CNN-based models stems from the alignment between their inductive biases and the physical priors of phase-field simulations specifically, locality and spatiotemporal translation invariance. Through effective receptive field analysis, we verify that the model captures these essential properties during training. Therefore, from a reductionist perspective, the surrogate model essentially establishes a spatiotemporally invariant regression mapping between a grid point's local environment and its subsequent state. Further analysis of the model's feature space demonstrates that microstructural evolution effectively represents a continuous redistribution of a finite set of local environments. When the model has already encountered nearly all possible local environments in the early-stage training data, it can reliably generalize to much longer evolution timescales, regardless of the dramatic changes in global microstructural morphology.
title Scalable data-driven modeling of microstructure evolution by learning local dependency and spatiotemporal translation invariance rules in phase field simulation
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10171