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 |
Dual Machine Learning Discovery of the Radius of Informative Structural Environments in Metallic Glasses |
| Author(s) |
Muchen Wang, Yuchu Wang, Minhazul Islam, Yuchi Wang, Yunzhi Wang, Jinwoo Hwang, Yue Fan |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Muchen Wang |
| Abstract Scope |
Establishing structure-property relationships in metallic glasses remains challenging because their disordered atomic structures lack obvious descriptors beyond short-range order. Here, we use machine learning to identify an intrinsic structural length scale that optimally captures informative atomic environments in amorphous alloys. For a prototypical Zr-Cu metallic glass, we combine two independent ML strategies to define the Radius of Informative Structural Environments (RISE). A reductionist model using SOAP descriptors with XGBoost shows that atomic environments within a 5 Å radius maximize structural diversity and enable optimal prediction of configurational energy. In parallel, an emergent Vision Transformer trained directly on voxelized atomic configurations exhibits performance saturation when inter-patch communication corresponds to an equivalent radius of approximately 5 Å. The convergence of these distinct approaches provides data-driven evidence for a physically meaningful medium-range structural length scale. Robustness tests across multiple glass-forming systems further confirm that RISE is transferable and not a computational artifact. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Machine Learning, |