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9 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Born-Qualified: An Autonomous Framework for Deploying Advanced Energy and Electronic Materials

Steven R. Spurgeon, Milad Abolhasani, Frederick Baddour +28

Autonomous science is transforming how we discover materials and chemical systems for advanced energy technologies. However, many initially promising systems never reach deployment…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

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

AI-assisted Human-in-the-Loop Web Platform for Structural Characterization in Hard drive design

Utkarsh Pratiush, Huaixun Huyan, Maryam Zahiri Azar +4

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has become a cornerstone instrument for semiconductor materials metrology, enabling nanoscale analysis of complex multilayer struct…

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

Sequential versus Manifold Bayesian Optimization under Realistic Experimental Time Constraints

Boris Slautin, Sergei Kalinin

Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely used for autonomous materials discovery, yet its classical sequential formulation is insufficient for design of experimental workflows that oft…

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…