About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2027 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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AI/ML/Data Informatics for Materials Discovery: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Modeling
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| Presentation Title |
Agentic Resource Allocation for Batch Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization in Autonomous Materials Discovery |
| Author(s) |
Robert Robinson, Shakti Padhy, Sushant Sinha, Ahnaf Alvi, Juan Florez, Brent Vela, Trevor Hastings, Douglas Allaire, Raymundo Arroyave |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Robert Robinson |
| Abstract Scope |
Materials discovery is constrained by costly, time-intensive experimentation across enormous, multi-objective design spaces. Bayesian optimization (BO) offers a principled approach for navigating such spaces, but most workflows rely on fixed exploration-exploitation policies that cannot adapt to shifting constraints in dynamic, self-driving laboratory campaigns. We develop a multi-objective BO framework for alloy design under resource constraints, benchmarking adaptive policy-tuning strategies on a septenary refractory high-entropy alloy system (melting temperature, density) and a Fe-Co-Ni soft-magnetic system (magnetization, coercivity, hardness). We compare an exploitation-focused strategy, a fixed mixed policy, and two LLM-based adaptive strategies in campaigns with and without mid-campaign resource constraints. Mixed allocation strategies accumulate more mutual information than the exploitation-focused baseline at a smaller cost to hypervolume and speed, with adaptive strategies further outperforming the fixed-mixed policy by responding to campaign statistics and resource events. Adaptive resource allocation thus offers a favorable tradeoff for reducing predictive uncertainty on pareto-optimal compositions. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Machine Learning, |