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 |
Modeling Stochastic Dynamics by Transforming Conditional Densities with Amortized Conditional Optimal Transport |
Author(s) |
Adam Generale, Andreas Robertson, Surya Kalidindi |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Adam Generale |
Abstract Scope |
Forecasting conditional stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems is a central challenge inherent in modeling the evolution pathways of materials' microstructures during processing. Data acquisition in these settings is particularly difficult, often necessitating destructive testing to assess the material’s internal state -- precluding the observation of complete temporal trajectories. Flow-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable capability in leveraging such data to predict the evolution of distributions over time. However, existing methodologies fall short in rigorously capturing the influence of conditioning variables on these dynamics. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a framework that integrates simultaneously conditioned flows with a conditional Wasserstein distance and a reweighting kernel towards further facilitating conditional optimal transport. We evaluate our approach on a series of increasingly complex tasks, encompassing discrete and continuous conditional mapping benchmarks, image-to-image domain transfer problems, and the modeling of temporal microstructural evolution in materials under processing. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Machine Learning, ICME, |