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Learning Design Skills as Memory Policies for Agentic Photonic Inverse Design

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Abstract

Photonic crystal fiber (PCF) inverse design remains challenging because candidate geometries must satisfy coupled optical targets under expensive electromagnetic simulation. Existing pipelines improve surrogate prediction or one-shot parameter recommendation, but they do not accumulate reusable design knowledge across iterative trials. We formulate PCF inverse design as a memory-policy learning problem and propose SkillPCF, a closed-loop agent framework that combines a physics-guided memory skill bank, reinforcement-learned skill selection, and simulator-grounded skill evolution. We further construct a real-world dataset with 479 expert interaction traces (2,507 spans) and 553 memory-dependent evaluation queries covering dispersion engineering, loss optimization, and multi-objective design. Experiments across multiple LLM backbones and classical baselines show that SkillPCF achieves stronger design-quality and efficiency trade-offs under practical simulation budgets, demonstrating the effectiveness of our proposed memory-skill learning paradigm for physics-aware PCF inverse design.

Comments: AI4Physics@ICML 2026

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.29421,
  title  = {Learning Design Skills as Memory Policies for Agentic Photonic Inverse Design},
  author = {Shengchao Chen and Ting Shu and Sufen Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29421},
  year   = {2026}
}