About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2026 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 |
Deep Gaussian Process-based Cost-Aware Batch Bayesian optimization for Complex Materials Discovery Campaigns |
Author(s) |
Ahnaf Alvi, Brent Vela, Jan Janssen, Danny Perez, Douglas Allaire, Raymundo Arroyave |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Ahnaf Alvi |
Abstract Scope |
The accelerating pace and expanding scope of materials discovery demand optimization frameworks that efficiently navigate vast, nonlinear design spaces while judiciously allocating limited evaluation resources. We present a cost-aware, batch Bayesian optimization scheme powered by deep Gaussian process (DGP) surrogates and a heterotopic querying strategy. Our DGP surrogate, formed by stacking GP layers, models complex hierarchical relationships among high-dimensional compositional features and captures correlations across multiple target properties, propagating uncertainty through successive layers. We integrate evaluation cost into an upper-confidence-bound acquisition extension, which, together with heterotopic querying, proposes small batches of candidates in parallel, balancing exploration of under-characterized regions with exploitation of high-mean, low-variance predictions across correlated properties. Applied to refractory high-entropy alloys for plasma-facing applications, our framework converges to optimal formulations in significantly fewer iterations and lower cost than conventional GP-based BO, highlighting the value of deep, uncertainty-aware, cost-sensitive strategies in materials campaigns. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Machine Learning, High-Entropy Alloys |