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MO-PaDGAN: Generating Diverse Designs with Multivariate Performance Enhancement

Machine Learning 2020-07-10 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Deep generative models have proven useful for automatic design synthesis and design space exploration. However, they face three challenges when applied to engineering design: 1) generated designs lack diversity, 2) it is difficult to explicitly improve all the performance measures of generated designs, and 3) existing models generally do not generate high-performance novel designs, outside the domain of the training data. To address these challenges, we propose MO-PaDGAN, which contains a new Determinantal Point Processes based loss function for probabilistic modeling of diversity and performances. Through a real-world airfoil design example, we demonstrate that MO-PaDGAN expands the existing boundary of the design space towards high-performance regions and generates new designs with high diversity and performances exceeding training data.

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@article{arxiv.2007.04790,
  title  = {MO-PaDGAN: Generating Diverse Designs with Multivariate Performance Enhancement},
  author = {Wei Chen and Faez Ahmed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04790},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.11304

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