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In recent years, deep learning-based methods have been proposed for solving inverse scattering problems (ISPs), but most of them heavily rely on data and suffer from limited generalization capabilities. In this paper, a new solving scheme…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Yutong Du , Zicheng Liu , Bazargul Matkerim , Changyou Li , Yali Zong , Bo Qi , Jingwei Kou

Optical neural networks offer a route to low-latency and energy-efficient inference by encoding computation in light propagation. However, most existing implementations rely on planar photonic circuits or discretely spaced diffractive…

Humans gain an implicit understanding of physical laws through observing and interacting with the world. Endowing an autonomous agent with an understanding of physical laws through experience and observation is seldom practical: we should…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Wilhelm E. Sorteberg , Stef Garasto , Alison S. Pouplin , Chris D. Cantwell , Anil A. Bharath

We propose a method to use artificial neural networks to approximate light scattering by multilayer nanoparticles. We find the network needs to be trained on only a small sampling of the data in order to approximate the simulation to high…

Scattering of light in complex media scrambles optical wavefronts and breaks the principles of conventional imaging methods. For decades, researchers have endeavored to conquer the problem by inventing approaches such as adaptive optics,…

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is a crucial technique for material surface analysis, yet interpreting its spectra is often challenging for both human analysts and automated methods due to the prevalence of variable spectral shifts…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Issa Saddiq , Yuxin Fan , Robert G. Palgrave , Mark A. Isaacs , David Morgan , Keith T. Butler

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Today the gold standard for in vivo imaging through scattering tissue is the point-scanning two-photon microscope (PSTPM). Especially in neuroscience, PSTPM is widely used for deep-tissue imaging in the brain. However, due to sequential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 Zhun Wei , Josiah R. Boivin , Yi Xue , Xudong Chen , Peter T. C. So , Elly Nedivi , Dushan N. Wadduwage

We investigate the scattering of light by a nonlinear, anisotropic slab under conical incidence and arbitrary polarization, within the framework of Maxwell's equations, where the nonlinearities are described by nonlinear susceptibility…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-22 Jérémy Itier , Gilles Renversez , Frédéric Zolla

Miniaturized optical resonators with spatial dimensions of the order of the wavelength of the trapped light offer prospects for a variety of new applications like quantum processing or construction of meta-materials. Light propagation in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-28 L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , B. Kettner , F. Schmidt

Graph-based spatio-temporal neural networks are effective to model the spatial dependency among discrete points sampled irregularly from unstructured grids, thanks to the great expressiveness of graph neural networks. However, these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Haitao Lin , Guojiang Zhao , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

Here, we introduce a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) formulation driven by temporally correlated noise to describe light propagation beyond the standard Markov approximation. By representing the squared refractive index…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Chaoran Wang , Jinquan Qi , Shuang Liu , Chenjin Deng , Shensheng Han

The immense computational cost of simulating turbulence has motivated the use of machine learning approaches for super-resolving turbulent flows. A central challenge is ensuring that learned models respect physical symmetries, such as…

The light scattering of multilayer nanoparticles can be solved by Maxwell equations. However, it is difficult to solve the inverse design of multilayer nanoparticles by using the traditional trial-and-error method. Here, we present a method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 Cankun Qiu , Zhi Luo , Xia Wu , Huidong Yang , Bo Huang

Spatio-temporal processes often exhibit highly heterogeneous and non-intuitive responses to localized disruptions, limiting the effectiveness of conventional message passing approaches in modeling local heterogeneity. We reformulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abeer Mostafa , Raneen Younis , Zahra Ahmadi

Imaging the propagation of light in time and space is crucial in optics, notably for the study of complex media. We here demonstrate the passive measurement of time-dependent Green's functions between every point at the surface of a…

We present Shape-Tailored Deep Neural Networks (ST-DNN). ST-DNN extend convolutional networks (CNN), which aggregate data from fixed shape (square) neighborhoods, to compute descriptors defined on arbitrarily shaped regions. This is natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Naeemullah Khan , Angira Sharma , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi , Philip H. S. Torr

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

Simplicial map neural networks (SMNNs) are topology-based neural networks with interesting properties such as universal approximation ability and robustness to adversarial examples under appropriate conditions. However, SMNNs present some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo , Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

In a communication scheme, there exist points at the transmitter and at the receiver where the wave is reduced to a finite set of functions of time which describe amplitudes and phases. For instance, the information is summarized in…

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