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most citedBayesian Co-Navigation of a Computational Physical Model and AFM Experiment to Autonomously Survey a Combinatorial Materials Library

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18 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Synthesis and Characterization of Compositionally Complex (Gd/Ho/Er/Dy)2Zr2O7 Thin Film Combinatorial Library

Dalton A. Pearl, Jade Holliman, Reece Emory +13

High-throughput synthesis and characterization of novel ceramic materials with improved thermomechanical properties and phase stability are needed to accelerate the discovery of ne…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

LLM-Guided Open Hypothesis Learning from Autonomous Scanning Probe Microscopy Experiments

Boris Slautin, Utkarsh Pratiush, Yu Liu +2

Autonomous experimentation has transformed microscopy and materials discovery by enabling closed-loop optimization including imaging and spectroscopy tuning, strucutre property rel…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

PATHFINDER: Multi-objective discovery in structural and spectral spaces

Kamyar Barakati, Boris N. Slautin, Utkarsh Pratiush +2

Automated decision-making is becoming key for automated characterization including electron and scanning probe microscopies and nano indentation. Most machine learning driven workf…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

From Photons to Electrons: Accelerated Materials Discovery via Random Libraries and Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Boris Slautin, Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush +10

The real-world implementation of materials prediction algorithms remains limited by persistent characterization bottlenecks in materials discovery, where photon-based probe techniq…

cs.LG2026

Novelty-Driven Target-Space Discovery in Automated Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Utkarsh Pratiush, Kamyar Barakati, Boris N. Slautin +4

Modern automated microscopy faces a fundamental discovery challenge: in many systems, the most important scientific information does not reside in the immediately visible image fea…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Autonomous Probe Microscopy with Robust Bag-of-Features Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: Pareto-Front Mapping of Nanoscale Structure-Property Trade-Offs

Kamyar Barakati, Haochen Zhu, C Charlotte Buchanan +3

Combinatorial materials libraries are an efficient route to generate large families of candidate compositions, but their impact is often limited by the speed and depth of character…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Bayesian Co-Navigation of a Computational Physical Model and AFM Experiment to Autonomously Survey a Combinatorial Materials Library

Boris N. Slautin, Kamyar Barakati, Yu Liu +3

Building autonomous experiment workflows requires transcending beyond the data-driven surrogate models to incorporate and dynamically refine physical theory during exploration. Her…

cs.LG2025

Reward driven discovery of the optimal microstructure representations with invariant variational autoencoders

Boris N. Slautin, Kamyar Barakati, Hiroshi Funakubo +4

Microscopy techniques generate vast amounts of complex image data that in principle can be used to discover simpler, interpretable, and parsimonious forms to reveal the underlying…

cs.CV2025

SAM: Task-Adaptive SAM with Physics-Guided Rewards

Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush, Sheryl L. Sanchez +5

Image segmentation is a critical task in microscopy, essential for accurately analyzing and interpreting complex visual data. This task can be performed using custom models trained…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Mic-hackathon 2024: Hackathon on Machine Learning for Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Kamyar Barakati +70

Microscopy is a primary source of information on materials structure and functionality at nanometer and atomic scales. The data generated is often well-structured, enriched with me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Domain Switching on the Pareto Front: Multi-Objective Deep Kernel Learning in Automated Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

Yu Liu, Utkarsh Pratiush, Kamyar Barakati +5

Ferroelectric polarization switching underpins the functional performance of a wide range of materials and devices, yet its dependence on complex local microstructural features ren…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Exploring Domain Wall Pinning in Ferroelectrics via Automated High Throughput AFM

Kamyar Barakati, Yu Liu, Hiroshi Funakubo +1

Domain-wall dynamics in ferroelectric materials are strongly position-dependent since each polar interface is locked into a unique local microstructure. This necessitates spatially…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Causal Discovery from Data Assisted by Large Language Models

Kamyar Barakati, Alexander Molak, Chris Nelson +3

Knowledge driven discovery of novel materials necessitates the development of the causal models for the property emergence. While in classical physical paradigm the causal relation…

eess.IV2025

Rewards-based image analysis in microscopy

Kamyar Barakati, Yu Liu, Utkarsh Pratiush +2

Imaging and hyperspectral data analysis is central to progress across biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics. The core challenge lies in converting high-resolution or high-dimen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Materials Discovery in Combinatorial and High-throughput Synthesis and Processing: A New Frontier for SPM

Boris N. Slautin, Yongtao Liu, Kamyar Barakati +13

For over three decades, scanning probe microscopy (SPM) has been a key method for exploring material structures and functionalities at nanometer and often atomic scales in ambient,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Reward driven workflows for unsupervised explainable analysis of phases and ferroic variants from atomically resolved imaging data

Kamyar Barakati, Yu Liu, Chris Nelson +4

Rapid progress in aberration corrected electron microscopy necessitates development of robust methods for the identification of phases, ferroic variants, and other pertinent aspect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Reward-Driven Image Segmentation in Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Experiments

Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin C. Houston +2

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Physics-based reward driven image analysis in microscopy

Kamyar Barakati, Hui Yuan, Amit Goyal +1

The rise of electron microscopy has expanded our ability to acquire nanometer and atomically resolved images of complex materials. The resulting vast datasets are typically analyze…