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Efficient Training of Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials for Metallic Glasses

A workflow for fitting accurate, chemistry-specific machine-learning interatomic potentials to disordered metallic-glass alloys while minimizing costly first-principles data. A Lennard-Jones surrogate plus swap-Monte-Carlo sampling generates well-equilibrated amorphous configurations across many decades of supercooling, which single-point DFT corrections turn into a training set that yields near-DFT structural, dynamical, and mechanical accuracy.