AdditiveLLM: Large Language Models Predict Defects in Additive Manufacturing
This addresses defect prediction in additive manufacturing for users, though it is incremental as it applies existing LLM methods to a new domain-specific dataset.
The paper tackles the problem of predicting additive manufacturing defects from process parameters using fine-tuned large language models, achieving 93% accuracy in identifying defect regimes like Keyholing, Lack of Fusion, and Balling.
In this work we investigate the ability of large language models to predict additive manufacturing defect regimes given a set of process parameter inputs. For this task we utilize a process parameter defect dataset to fine-tune a collection of models, titled AdditiveLLM, for the purpose of predicting potential defect regimes including Keyholing, Lack of Fusion, and Balling. We compare different methods of input formatting in order to gauge the model's performance to correctly predict defect regimes on our sparse Baseline dataset and our natural language Prompt dataset. The model displays robust predictive capability, achieving an accuracy of 93\% when asked to provide the defect regimes associated with a set of process parameters. The incorporation of natural language input further simplifies the task of process parameters selection, enabling users to identify optimal settings specific to their build.