Terao T. Semi-supervised learning for the study of structural formation in colloidal systems via image recognition.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021;
33:325901. [PMID:
33962403 DOI:
10.1088/1361-648x/abfee4]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
The analysis of the structural formation of colloidal systems using machine learning techniques has recently attracted much attention. In many of these studies, local bond-order parameters (LBOPs) were employed as descriptors, where such LBOPs are suitable mainly for the detection of crystal structures. On the other hand, image-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are quite effective in detecting not only crystals but also random structures, and the author demonstrated their efficiency in a previous paper. However, in supervised learning, it is difficult to obtain a correct result when there is an unexpected new phase that was unknown when training the CNN. In this paper, we propose a hybrid scheme that consists of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, employing two different approaches: image-based CNN and generalized LBOP. The proposed method was applied to two-dimensional colloidal systems, and its efficiency was demonstrated.
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