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Polymers are attractive in applications like flexible electronics and thermal interface materials due to their mechanical compliance and processability. However, conventional polymers have low thermal conductivity (TC), limiting their heat…
This paper shows how data-driven machine learning approaches can improve growth control, reproducibility, and physical insight in the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) growth of correlated oxides. Despite well-known relationships between growth…
We present OPAL (Operant Physical Agent with Language), a novel vision-language-action architecture that introduces topological constraints to flow matching for robotic control. To do so, we further introduce topological attention. Our…
This paper describes a scalable active learning pipeline prototype for large-scale brain mapping that leverages high performance computing power. It enables high-throughput evaluation of algorithm results, which, after human review, are…
The next generation of advanced materials is tending toward increasingly complex compositions. Synthesizing precise composition is time-consuming and becomes exponentially demanding with increasing compositional complexity. An experienced…
In spite of maturity to the modern electronic design automation (EDA) tools, optimized designs at architectural stage may become sub-optimal after going through physical design flow. Adder design has been such a long studied fundamental…
Analysis of molecular scale interactions and chemical structure offers an enormous opportunity to tune material properties for targeted applications. However, designing materials from molecular scale is a grand challenge owing to the…
High-throughput computational screening of polymers offers a powerful way to address the imbalance between the vast number of polymers synthesised for diverse applications and the relatively small subset that can be studied using atomistic…
Annotating datasets for object detection is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. To minimize this burden, active learning (AL) techniques are employed to select the most informative samples for annotation within a constrained…
Plasticisers (PLs) are small additives commonly incorporated into polymer composites to enhance processability and improve mechanical properties. Their effectiveness depends heavily on their miscibility within the polymer melt, yet…
Multimodal representation learning has shown promising improvements on various vision-language tasks. Most existing methods excel at building global-level alignment between vision and language while lacking effective fine-grained image-text…
Artificial Intelligence algorithms have now become pervasive in multiple high-stakes domains. However, their internal logic can be obscure to humans. Explainable Artificial Intelligence aims to design tools and techniques to illustrate the…
Exploratory analysis of high-dimensional data relies on embedding the data into a low-dimensional space (typically 2D or 3D), based on which visualization plot is produced to uncover meaningful structures and to communicate geometric and…
Electronic materials exhibiting phase transitions between metastable states (e.g., metal-insulator transition materials with abrupt electrical resistivity transformations) are challenging to decode. For these materials, conventional machine…
Many practical applications of multi-objective optimization (MOO), including engineering design, autonomous systems, and machine learning, often yield complex Pareto frontiers (e.g., discontinuous, degenerate, or non-convex), which pose…
Active learning (AL) is a principled strategy to reduce annotation cost in data-hungry deep learning. However, existing AL algorithms focus almost exclusively on unimodal data, overlooking the substantial annotation burden in multimodal…
Methods for learning optimal policies use causal machine learning models to create human-interpretable rules for making choices around the allocation of different policy interventions. However, in realistic policy-making contexts,…
We propose an active learning method for discovering low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional Gaussian process (GP) tasks. Such problems are increasingly frequent and important, but have hitherto presented severe practical…
Accurate prediction of polymer properties is essential for materials design, but remains challenging due to data scarcity, diverse polymer representations, and the lack of systematic evaluation across modelling choices. Here, we present…
Machine learning has rapidly advanced the design and discovery of new materials with targeted applications in various systems. First-principles calculations and other computer experiments have been integrated into material design pipelines…