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Main Authors: Garate-Perez, Eider, de Calle-Etxabe, Kerman López, Garcia, Oihana, Calvo, Borja, Gómez-Omella, Meritxell, Lambarri, Jon
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00093
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author Garate-Perez, Eider
de Calle-Etxabe, Kerman López
Garcia, Oihana
Calvo, Borja
Gómez-Omella, Meritxell
Lambarri, Jon
author_facet Garate-Perez, Eider
de Calle-Etxabe, Kerman López
Garcia, Oihana
Calvo, Borja
Gómez-Omella, Meritxell
Lambarri, Jon
contents The high computational cost of phase field simulations remains a major limitation for predicting dendritic solidification in metals, particularly in additive manufacturing, where microstructural control is critical. This work presents a surrogate model for dendritic solidification that employs uncertainty-driven adaptive sampling with XGBoost and CNNs, including a self-supervised strategy, to efficiently approximate the spatio-temporal evolution while reducing costly phase field simulations. The proposed adaptive strategy leverages model uncertainty, approximated via Monte Carlo dropout for CNNs and bagging for XGBoost, to identify high-uncertainty regions where new samples are generated locally within hyperspheres, progressively refining the spatio-temporal design space and achieving accurate predictions with significantly fewer phase field simulations than an Optimal Latin Hypercube Sampling optimized via discrete Particle Swarm Optimization (OLHS-PSO). The framework systematically investigates how temporal instance selection, adaptive sampling, and the choice between domain-informed and data-driven surrogates affect spatio-temporal model performance. Evaluation considers not only computational cost but also the number of expensive phase field simulations, surrogate accuracy, and associated $CO_2$ emissions, providing a comprehensive assessment of model performance as well as their related environmental impact.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Uncertainty-Guided Surrogates for Efficient phase field Modeling of Dendritic Solidification
Garate-Perez, Eider
de Calle-Etxabe, Kerman López
Garcia, Oihana
Calvo, Borja
Gómez-Omella, Meritxell
Lambarri, Jon
Computational Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
68
I.2; J.2
The high computational cost of phase field simulations remains a major limitation for predicting dendritic solidification in metals, particularly in additive manufacturing, where microstructural control is critical. This work presents a surrogate model for dendritic solidification that employs uncertainty-driven adaptive sampling with XGBoost and CNNs, including a self-supervised strategy, to efficiently approximate the spatio-temporal evolution while reducing costly phase field simulations. The proposed adaptive strategy leverages model uncertainty, approximated via Monte Carlo dropout for CNNs and bagging for XGBoost, to identify high-uncertainty regions where new samples are generated locally within hyperspheres, progressively refining the spatio-temporal design space and achieving accurate predictions with significantly fewer phase field simulations than an Optimal Latin Hypercube Sampling optimized via discrete Particle Swarm Optimization (OLHS-PSO). The framework systematically investigates how temporal instance selection, adaptive sampling, and the choice between domain-informed and data-driven surrogates affect spatio-temporal model performance. Evaluation considers not only computational cost but also the number of expensive phase field simulations, surrogate accuracy, and associated $CO_2$ emissions, providing a comprehensive assessment of model performance as well as their related environmental impact.
title Adaptive Uncertainty-Guided Surrogates for Efficient phase field Modeling of Dendritic Solidification
topic Computational Physics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
68
I.2; J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00093