Leveraging transfer learning to address materials data scarcity: a case study on predicting hardness in additively manufactured high-entropy alloys
摘要
Additively manufactured high-entropy alloys (AMed HEAs) are promising aerospace materials, but limited experimental data hinder reliable property prediction. This study presents a transfer learning (TL) strategy in which a neural network is pre-trained on a large as-cast HEA dataset and fine-tuned using a small AMed dataset for hardness prediction. Results show that the TL model outperformed conventional machine learning methods, demonstrating its effectiveness in overcoming data scarcity.