Self-supervised learning for glass composition screening

Abstract

Glass finds broad application across optoelectronics, biomedical engineering, and architectural engineering, but the inherent complexity inherent to multicomponent systems creates substantial challenges in the screening of glass compositions with target properties. Current supervised learning methods for this task rely heavily on large amounts of high-quality data and are prone to overfitting on noisy samples, which limits their generalization ability. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised learning framework designed specifically for screening glass compositions within pre-defined glass transition temperature ranges. We reformulate the screening task as a classification problem, aiming to predict whether the glass transition temperature of a given composition falls within a target interval. To improve the model’s robustness to noise, we introduce an innovative data augmentation strategy grounded in asymptotic theory. Additionally, we present DeepGlassNet, a dedicated network architecture developed to capture and analyze the complex interactions among constituent elements in glass compositions. This architecture is integrated into our self-supervised framework to optimize the Area Under Curve (AUC) classification metric. Experimental results demonstrate that DeepGlassNet achieves superior screening accuracy compared to traditional methods and exhibits strong adaptability to other composition-related screening tasks. This study not only provides an efficient methodology for designing multicomponent glasses but also establishes a foundation for applying self-supervised learning in material discovery. Code and data are available at: https://github.com/liubin06/DeepGlassNet.