用物理规律自动校准科学仪器,无需人工标注。
Self-Supervised Calibration of Scientific Instruments Using Physical Consistency Constraints

- 利用物理约束生成伪标签,自监督优化校准参数和预测结果。
- 在离子电荷态识别任务中实现高精度重建,且能监测探测器漂移与老化。
- 适合需要长期稳定运行的智能实验系统,尤其适用于缺乏标定数据场景。
校准是机器学习在科学仪器中应用的主要障碍,通常依赖专家干预、专用流程和人工标注数据。本文提出一种基于物理约束的自监督框架,直接从原始测量数据中联合学习隐式探测器校准参数与任务特定预测,无需预校准信号或外部标签。该方法通过已知物理规律迭代生成伪标签,将校准转化为自监督优化问题。在VAMOS++磁谱仪的离子电荷态判定任务中,实现了对分段电离室的校准与电荷态推断同步学习。从弱先验的平均离子电荷态出发,模型通过基于原子质量离散性的分步伪标注逐步精炼预测。除了高精度电荷态重构外,推导出的校准系数可作为探测器状态的紧凑表征,支持自动监测增益漂移、压力变化及探测器老化。这些生成的标签可进一步用于专门模型,量化探测器缺陷并追踪其时空演化。该成果建立了一种通用的自校准与自监控科学仪器范式,迈向具备自主校准、分析与性能优化能力的智能实验系统。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Calibration remains one of the principal obstacles to the deployment of machine learning in scientific instrumentation because it typically relies on expert intervention, dedicated procedures, and manually labelled data. We introduce a physics-informed self-supervised framework that jointly learns latent detector calibration parameters and task-specific predictions directly from raw measurements without requiring pre-calibrated signals or external labels. The method exploits known physical constraints to generate pseudo-labels iteratively, transforming calibration into a self-supervised optimization problem. The approach is demonstrated for ionic charge-state determination in the VAMOS++ magnetic spectrometer, where the calibration of a segmented ionization chamber and the inference of ionic charge states are learned simultaneously. Starting from a weak prior on the mean ionic charge state, the model progressively refines its predictions through iterative fractional pseudo-labelling driven by the discrete nature of atomic masses. Beyond accurate ionic charge-state reconstruction, the inferred calibration coefficients provide a compact representation of the detector state that enables automated monitoring of gain drifts, pressure variations, and detector aging. The resulting labels can subsequently be transferred to specialized models that quantify detector imperfections and track their spatial and temporal evolution. These results establish a general paradigm for self-calibrating and self-monitoring scientific instruments and represent a step toward intelligent experimental systems capable of autonomous calibration, analysis, and performance optimization.
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