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Permutation invariant neural network prediction of vacancy formation under deformation and varying chemical environment in FCC high entropy alloys

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Pith's one-line read In an FCC high-entropy alloy, vacancy formation energy shifts with volume, not shear, and a permutation-invariant network resolves the site-to-site chemistry.

desk verdict A useful new descriptor combination for strain-dependent vacancy energetics in HEAs, but the omitted removed-atom species identity is a real gap that undermines the site-specific accuracy claim. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.07445 v1 pith:NX2KDN3S submitted 2026-08-07 cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.dis-nnphysics.comp-ph

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The pith

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The reading

The paper shows that in the face-centered cubic high-entropy alloy CoCrFeNi, the average change in vacancy formation energy under mechanical load is controlled by volumetric strain, while shear strain contributes little. It further claims that the large site-to-site scatter at a fixed load is a chemical-environment effect, and that a permutation-invariant neural network can predict this site-resolved value. If true, this gives a fast surrogate for the expensive atomistic calculations needed in multiscale models of diffusion, irradiation damage, and shock failure. The support is a network trained on 500,000 EAM vacancy energies across 17 uniaxial and 17 shear strain states, with held-out $R^2=0.958$ and mean absolute error $0.026$ eV.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the vacancy-centered descriptor $\mathbf{s}_{ij}=[z_j, r_{ij}, \mathbf{a}_{ij}]$, where $z_j$ is the neighbor species embedding, $r_{ij}$ is the distance from the vacancy, and $\mathbf{a}_{ij}$ contains three averaged angle features (mean angle, mean cosine, mean $\cos 2\theta$) over neighbors around the vacancy. Summing the encoded neighbor contributions $\xi_i=\sum_j \mathbf{m}_{ij}$ gives permutation invariance, and the three principal invariants $I_1, I_2, I_3$ of the right Cauchy–Green tensor $\mathbf{C}=\mathbf{F}^T\mathbf{F}$ form an objective deformation descriptor; these are concatenated into $\eta_i=[\xi_i, I_1, I_2, I_3]$ and passed through dense layers. Because the removed atom's species is not an explicit input, the network must learn it from the surrounding shell. Equation (8), $E_{vf}=a(1+\varepsilon_{\mathrm{vol}})^{-n}+c$, is the simple analytic mechanism by which the paper explains the volume-dominated average behavior.

What would settle it

Take two supercells in which the first three coordination shells around the vacancy site are identical but the removed central atoms are different species, compute the EAM vacancy formation energies directly, and compare them with the network's predictions; if the reference energies differ by the species chemical potential while the predictions are identical, the central premise fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is that vacancy formation energy in FCC CoCrFeNi separates into a species-averaged, volume-controlled response and a chemistry-controlled site scatter. Under uniaxial loading the mean follows $E_{vf}=a(1+\varepsilon_{\mathrm{vol}})^{-n}+c$ with species-dependent constants, while simple shear leaves the average essentially unchanged; under identical macroscopic loading, individual sites still differ because each vacancy sits in a distinct chemical neighborhood. The network uses a vacancy-centered representation — neighbor species embeddings, radial distances, averaged bond-angle features, and the principal invariants of $\mathbf{C}=\mathbf{F}^T\mathbf{F}$ — summed over neighbors for permutation invariance. Training on 500,000 EAM vacancy energies across 17 uniaxial and 17 shear states yields validation $R^2=0.9578$ and MAE $0.026$ eV, and the same volume trend appears for an independently generated configuration. The authors conclude that hydrostatic pressure shifts formation enthalpy and vacancy concentration without erasing the chemical hierarchy between sites.

Load-bearing premise

The model assumes the removed atom's species is redundant because the surrounding neighbor shell determines the formation energy; if two identical neighborhoods with different removed species have different true energies, the network cannot represent the difference.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A species-averaged power law $E_{vf}=a(1+\varepsilon_{\mathrm{vol}})^{-n}+c$ with fitted constants can replace expensive defect calculations when only the mean vacancy formation energy under load is needed.
  • Because shear has little effect, continuum and shock models can treat vacancy formation energy as a function of volume or pressure rather than the full strain tensor.
  • Site-resolved predictions from the network make it possible to write vacancy diffusion and irradiation-damage models with a distribution of formation energies instead of a single Arrhenius value.
  • At 300 K the model predicts equilibrium vacancy concentrations that change by many orders of magnitude between strong tension and strong compression, with local chemistry controlling the offset.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Inference: because the representation contains no alloy-specific constants, the same architecture should transfer to other FCC high-entropy alloys, but the omitted-species assumption will be the first thing to test when species chemical potentials differ strongly.
  • Inference: making the removed species an explicit input and adding a species-potential correction would extend the model to ordered or short-range-ordered alloys, where the neighbor shell no longer determines the central atom.
  • Inference: the volume-only pressure dependence implies that shock or irradiation models could approximate vacancy-mediated damage from the material's volumetric compression history alone, using the fitted power-law coefficients.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes a permutation-invariant Deep Sets surrogate for site-resolved vacancy formation energies in FCC CoCrFeNi under uniaxial and shear deformation, using vacancy-centered neighbor descriptors and invariants of the deformation gradient. The authors generate roughly 500,000 EAM vacancy formation energies per strain state, fit an empirical power law for the species-averaged volumetric-strain dependence, and report aggregate validation metrics of R² = 0.958 and MAE = 0.026 eV. The surrogate is then used to compute pressure-dependent formation enthalpies, site occupation probabilities, configurational entropies, and equilibrium vacancy concentrations, with the central claim that volumetric deformation dominates the average response while shear deformation is minor and that local chemical environments control the statistical distribution.

Significance. If the reported accuracy survives an independent-configuration test and is verified per removed species, the surrogate would be a practically useful fast evaluator for stress-dependent vacancy energetics in HEAs. The paper contributes a large EAM dataset, a clean rotation- and permutation-invariant local representation with a proof of rotational invariance, and a direct comparison against a second random solid-solution configuration. The main caveats are that the current quantitative claims are aggregate and that the thermodynamics of the entropy/concentration analysis is not well posed.

major comments (3)
  1. [§2.2, Eq. (10) and remark after Eq. (28)] The training target in Eq. (2) contains the species-dependent chemical potential µ_A(F), but the node feature in Eq. (10) is s_ij = [z_j, r_ij, a_ij], which encodes the neighbor species and geometry but not the identity of the removed atom. In a random solid solution without short-range order, the removed species is statistically independent of the neighbor-species counts, so two sites with identical neighbor environments but different removed species receive identical predictions while the true formation energies differ by the species chemical potential. Relaxation of the defective configuration could in principle leave a trace of the removed species in r_ij and a_ij, but the manuscript provides no per-species error analysis to show that this trace is strong or unique. The aggregate R² and MAE in §4.2 therefore do not establish the claimed species-resolved accuracy; per-species parity plots or the explicit addition of the vacancy-site species as an input are needed.
  2. [§4.2 and Figure 4] The reported validation metrics come from a random 70/15/15 split of samples within the same supercell configurations and repeated strain states. Neighboring vacancy sites within a supercell share overlapping environments, and the same deformed cell contributes many samples, so the test set is not statistically independent. The only independent check, the 'new configuration' curves in Figure 4(b), is presented visually without any quantitative error measure. The authors should report MAE, RMSE, and R² computed on the fully unseen supercell configuration, ideally per strain state and per species, to support the transferability claim.
  3. [§2.4, Eqs. (39)-(41)] Eq. (41) defines a global Shannon entropy of the site-occupation probabilities p_i, not a site-specific vacancy formation entropy S_i^vf. Inserting this quantity into Eq. (39) conflates the equilibrium occupation distribution with the formation entropy of a single vacancy and double-counts the Boltzmann factor already present in p_i through Eq. (40). As a result, the absolute vacancy concentrations in Figure 7 are not grounded in a well-defined formation entropy. The authors should either derive a proper site-specific formation entropy or explicitly relabel Figures 6(b) and 7 as relative propensities rather than quantitative vacancy concentrations and formation entropies.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Figure 6] The captions for Figure 6 are incorrect: panel (a) is labeled as 'true versus predicted values of vacancy formation energy' and panel (b) as 'predicted values versus volumetric strain,' while the actual panels show vacancy occupation probability and configurational entropy versus pressure.
  2. [§4.2] It is not specified which checkpoint produced the results in Figure 4: the minimum validation loss occurs at epoch 908, the minimum validation MAE at epoch 978, and the minimum RMSE at epoch 972; these are three different models.
  3. [Eq. (12)] The denominator N_j in the angular descriptor is ambiguous: it should be the number of partners k contributing to the sum, typically |N_i|-1 when j is excluded, rather than an undefined neighbor count for atom j.
  4. [Table 1] The power-law fit in Eq. (8) is stated to describe the data well, but the table reports only the fitted constants and no goodness-of-fit measure such as per-species RMSE; adding this would strengthen the claim.
  5. [General] There is no data or code availability statement. Given the size of the dataset and the central role of the neural-network implementation, providing trained weights and the data-generation pipeline would be important for reproducibility.
  6. [General] There are several small typographical issues, including 'site-speccific' in §2.4 and the capitalization of 'Where' after Eq. (39); these should be corrected during revision.

Circularity Check

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The derivation chain is not circular; the surrogate is validated on held-out data, the power-law is explicitly empirical, and the self-citations are not load-bearing.

full rationale

The central accuracy claim is a held-out regression result: the model is trained on a 70/15/15 split of 500,000 EAM vacancy-formation energies per strain state, and the quoted R^2=0.9578 and validation MAE=0.026 eV are validation/test metrics rather than training-set reproductions, so the predictive claim does not reduce to its inputs. Equation (8) is explicitly an empirical fit with species-dependent fitting parameters a, c, and n, and the paper does not present it as a derived first-principles law; fitting a curve to data and then using it descriptively is not circular. The rotational-invariance proof in Section 2.3 is a direct mathematical verification of the descriptors. The self-citations (e.g., references 16, 17, 33, and 56) are background, qualitative-consistency, or methodological references and are not load-bearing for the main claims; no uniqueness theorem or ansatz is imported from prior author work. The vacancy-concentration curves in Figure 7 are a Boltzmann transform of the surrogate's own enthalpies with an explicitly configurational entropy term, so they are a forward application rather than an independent validation, but the paper does not claim them as evidence of surrogate accuracy and explicitly cautions that they are enthalpy-based estimates. The omitted removed-species identity is a modeling assumption that may limit species-resolved accuracy and deserves a per-species diagnostic, but it is an identifiability question about the featurization, not an equivalence between a prediction and its input by construction. Accordingly, no circular step is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on one empirical fitting law, several hand-chosen hyperparameters, and domain assumptions about the potential, the neighborhood cutoff, and species identifiability. The most consequential additions are the species-dependent power-law fit (Eq 8, Table 1) and the Shannon-entropy 'formation entropy' (Eq 41). No new physical particles or forces are introduced; the machine-learning model itself is a fitted interpolator rather than a derivation.

free parameters (5)
  • power-law constant a per species (Eq 8) = Co 0.59, Cr 0.07, Fe 1.34, Ni 0.22, mean 0.32
    Fitted to atomistic E_vf versus volumetric strain; part of the empirical scaling claim.
  • power-law constant c per species (Eq 8) = Co 1.07, Cr 1.44, Fe 0.32, Ni 1.21, mean 1.25
    Fitted baseline energy; no physical derivation.
  • power-law exponent n per species (Eq 8) = Co 7.55, Cr 17.29, Fe 1.75, Ni 11.05, mean 8.36
    Fitted exponent controlling the strain sensitivity; the wide species spread is itself an observation.
  • neural network hyperparameters = embedding dim 64, hidden dim 128, cutoff to third shell, lr 1e-3, wd 1e-4, batch 256, epochs 1000
    Chosen through validation and convergence studies, not derived; the normalization constants mu_train and sigma_train in Eq 26 are also data-derived.
  • learned network weights and species embeddings = roughly 5e4 parameters, not enumerated
    The Deep Sets encoder and dense layers are fit to the EAM training data; the surrogate's output is interpolation within the training distribution, so the predictive claim depends entirely on this fit.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption The Farkas-Caro EAM potential faithfully represents vacancy formation energetics in CoCrFeNi under deformation.
    All training labels come from this potential; only the lattice constant is validated against experiment/DFT in Methods 4.1, not strain-dependent vacancy energies.
  • domain assumption The first three coordination shells are sufficient to determine vacancy formation energy.
    Used to set the cutoff radius in Eq 9; no convergence study with respect to the cutoff is reported.
  • domain assumption The removed atom's species does not need to be an input because the surrounding environment encodes it.
    The target in Eq 2 contains a species-dependent chemical potential, but the descriptor s_ij in Eq 10 contains only neighbor species, distances, and angles; the authors acknowledge this design choice after Eq 28 without quantifying its identifiability limit.
  • domain assumption Homogeneous affine deformation with fixed deformed cell and relaxed atomic positions captures the relevant loading state.
    Methods 4.1 applies the deformation gradient to a relaxed supercell and relaxes atoms while holding the cell fixed; inhomogeneous or non-affine strain fields are not considered.
  • ad hoc to paper The Shannon entropy of site-occupation probabilities can stand in for the vacancy formation entropy.
    Eq 41 defines a configurational entropy of probabilities p_i from Eq 40, then Eq 39 uses it as S_vf in a Boltzmann concentration expression without thermodynamic derivation.
  • standard math Deep Sets summation preserves permutation invariance and the neural network can approximate the target mapping.
    Relies on the Deep Sets representation theorem and universal approximation; not proved in this paper but standard.
invented entities (1)
  • Configurational vacancy formation entropy as a Shannon entropy of site-occupation probabilities
    purpose: Used in Eq 39 and Figure 7 to convert model enthalpies into equilibrium vacancy concentrations.
    This quantity is not the thermodynamic vacancy formation entropy, which requires temperature derivatives of the free energy and includes vibrational, electronic, and magnetic terms. It is constructed from the model's own probabilities and has no external validation; labeling it S_vf is a postulate.

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Vacancy formation energies govern diffusion, irradiation damage, phase stability, and dynamic failure in high-entropy alloys (HEAs), yet their strong dependence on local chemical environments and mechanical deformation makes atomistic calculations prohibitively expensive for large-scale studies. Here, we develop an atomistically informed permutation invariant machine learning framework for predicting strain dependent vacancy formation energies in FCC HEAs from local atomic environments. The model employs a vacancy-centered representation constructed from objective geometric descriptors together with invariants of the local deformation gradient, enabling the coupled effects of chemical disorder and finite deformation to be learned within a unified framework. Atomistic simulations reveal that volumetric deformation is the dominant factor controlling the average variation in vacancy formation energy, whereas shear deformation has a comparatively minor influence. At the same time, substantial site to site variability persists under identical macroscopic loading, demonstrating that local chemical environments govern the statistical distribution of vacancy energetics beyond species-averaged trends. The proposed framework accurately predicts vacancy formation energies across diverse deformation states while providing orders-of-magnitude faster evaluation than direct atomistic simulations. These results establish an efficient route for incorporating stress-dependent defect energetics into multiscale models of diffusion, irradiation damage, and dynamic failure in chemically complex alloys.

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Figure 1. Atomic supercell of FCC CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy is shown. The inset shows a vacancy in this [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Variation of average chemical potential with uniaxial and shear strain. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Variation of vacancy formation energy with uniaxial and shear strain. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) shows the true versus predicted values of vacancy formation energy. (b) shows the predicted values [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The effect of pressure on vacancy formation enthalpy. The “new configuration” refers to a randomly [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: (a) shows the true versus predicted values of vacancy formation energy. (b) shows the predicted values [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The effect of pressure on the concentration of vacancy at temperature [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Training history of the invariant local-environment neural regressor used for vacancy formation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_8.png]

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