Novelty-Driven Target-Space Discovery in Automated Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy

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• A framework for automated microscopy that actively discovers new behaviors in target spaces using deep-kernel learning. Here, we developed a deep-kernel-learning BEACON framework that is explicitly designed to guide discovery in the target space by learning structure-property relationships during the experiment and using that evolving model to seek diverse response regimes.problem 35%
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  A framework for automated microscopy that actively discovers new behaviors in target spaces using deep-kernel learning. Here, we developed a deep-kernel-learning BEACON framework that is explicitly designed to guide discovery in the target space by learning structure-property relationships during the experiment and using that evolving model to seek diverse response regimes.

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• Modern automated microscopy faces a fundamental discovery challenge: in many systems, the most important scientific information does not reside in the immediately visible image features, but in the target space of sequentially acquired spectra or functional responses, making it essential to develop strategies that can actively search for new behaviors rather than simply optimize known objectives. Here, we developed a deep-kernel-learning BEACON framework that is explicitly designed to guide discovery in the target space by learning structure-property relationships during the experiment and using that evolving model to seek diverse response regimes.method 35%
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  Modern automated microscopy faces a fundamental discovery challenge: in many systems, the most important scientific information does not reside in the immediately visible image features, but in the target space of sequentially acquired spectra or functional responses, making it essential to develop strategies that can actively search for new behaviors rather than simply optimize known objectives. Here, we developed a deep-kernel-learning BEACON framework that is explicitly designed to guide discovery in the target space by learning structure-property relationships during the experiment and using that evolving model to seek diverse response regimes.

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• ScienceToStartup currently rates this 6.0/10 on the public viability pass. To support adoption and extension by the broader community, the associated notebooks are available, allowing users to reproduce the workflows, test the benchmarks, and adapt the method to their own instruments and datasets.result 35%
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  ScienceToStartup currently rates this 6.0/10 on the public viability pass. To support adoption and extension by the broader community, the associated notebooks are available, allowing users to reproduce the workflows, test the benchmarks, and adapt the method to their own instruments and datasets.

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• Automated Microscopy moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 6.0/10.why now 35%
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  Automated Microscopy moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 6.0/10.

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A framework for automated microscopy that actively discovers new behaviors in target spaces using deep-kernel learning.