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Publications (8)

physics.comp-ph2020

PyXtal FF: a Python Library for Automated Force Field Generation

Howard Yanxon, David Zagaceta, Binh Tang +2

We present PyXtal FF, a package based on Python programming language, for developing machine learning potentials (MLPs). The aim of PyXtal FF is to promote the application of atomi…

cs.LG2023

Image Segmentation using U-Net Architecture for Powder X-ray Diffraction Images

Howard Yanxon, Eric Roberts, Hannah Parraga +6

Scientific researchers frequently use the in situ synchrotron high-energy powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique to examine the crystallographic structures of materials in functi…

cs.LG2023

MLExchange: A web-based platform enabling exchangeable machine learning workflows for scientific studies

Zhuowen Zhao, Tanny Chavez, Elizabeth A. Holman +14

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are showing a growing trend in helping the scientific communities across different disciplines and institutions to address large and diverse data p…

eess.IV2022

Artifact Identification in X-ray Diffraction Data using Machine Learning Methods

Howard Yanxon, James Weng, Hannah Parraga +3

The in situ synchrotron high-energy X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) technique is highly utilized by researchers to analyze the crystallographic structures of materials in functional…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Short-range order and its impacts on the BCC NbMoTaW multi-principal element alloy by the machine-learning potential

Pedro A. Santos-Florez, Shi-Cheng Dai, Yi Yao +5

We employ a machine-learning force field, trained by a neural network (NN) with bispectrum coefficients as descriptors, to investigate the short-range order (SRO) influences on the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Size-Dependent Nucleation in Crystal Phase Transition from Machine Learning Metadynamics

Pedro A. Santos-Florez, Howard Yanxon, Byungkyun Kang +2

In this work, we present an efficient framework that combines machine learning potential (MLP) and metadynamics to explore multi-dimensional free energy surfaces for investigating…

physics.comp-ph2020

Neural Networks Potential from the Bispectrum Component: A Case Study on Crystalline Silicon

Howard Yanxon, David Zagaceta, Brandon C. Wood +1

In this article, we present a systematic study in developing machine learning force fields (MLFF) for crystalline silicon. While the main-stream approach of fitting a MLFF is to us…

physics.comp-ph2020

Spectral Neural Network Potentials for Binary Alloys

David Zagaceta, Howard Yanxon, Qiang Zhu

In this work, we present a numerical implementation to compute the atom centered descriptors introduced by Bartok et al (Phys. Rev. B, 87, 184115, 2013) based on the harmonic analy…