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most citedMachine Learning-Based Reward-Driven Tuning of Scanning Probe Microscopy: Towards Fully Automated Microscopy

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

ALIGNN 2.0: A Unified Line-Graph Neural Network Framework for Materials Screening, Force Fields, Inverse Design, Spectroscopy, and Microscopy

Jaehyung Lee, Charles Rhys Campbell, Akshaya Ajith +3

Graph neural networks are central to materials property prediction and machine-learning interatomic potentials, yet their reliance on specialized graph libraries hampers portabilit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

SPEAR: Structure Property Explainability with Attention Regularization

Aditya Raghavan, Utkarsh Pratiush, Dalton A. Pearl +4

Machine learning is increasingly used to learn structure property relationships from spectroscopic and diffraction data, yet its adoption in materials discovery is often limited by…

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…

physics.soc-ph2025

AI4X Roadmap: Artificial Intelligence for the advancement of scientific pursuit and its future directions

Stephen G. Dale, Nikita Kazeev, Alastair J. A. Price +65

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping how we approach scientific discovery, not by replacing established methods but by extending what researchers can probe, p…

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

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…

cs.LG2025

The Power of the Pareto Front: Balancing Uncertain Rewards for Adaptive Experimentation in scanning probe microscopy

Yu Liu, Sergei V. Kalinin

Automated experimentation has the potential to revolutionize scientific discovery, but its effectiveness depends on well-defined optimization targets, which are often uncertain or…

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.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Machine Learning-Based Reward-Driven Tuning of Scanning Probe Microscopy: Towards Fully Automated Microscopy

Yu Liu, Roger Proksch, Jason Bemis +8

Since the dawn of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), tapping or intermittent contact mode has been one of the most widely used imaging modes. Manual optimization of tapping mode not…

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…