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As surgical interventions trend towards minimally invasive approaches, Concentric Tube Robots (CTRs) have been explored for various interventions such as brain, eye, fetoscopic, lung, cardiac and prostate surgeries. Arranged concentrically,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Keshav Iyengar , Sarah Spurgeon , Danail Stoyanov

Recent years have witnessed significant progresses in deep Reinforcement Learning (RL). Empowered with large scale neural networks, carefully designed architectures, novel training algorithms and massively parallel computing devices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Chiyuan Zhang , Oriol Vinyals , Remi Munos , Samy Bengio

We present a machine-learning based Volume Of Fluid method to simulate multi-material flows on three-dimensional domains. One of the novelties of the method is that the flux fraction is computed by evaluating a previously trained neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Moreno Pintore , Bruno Després

Inertial microfluidic devices (IMDs) offer low-cost, high-throughput alternative techniques for many traditional particle- (or cell-) manipulation tasks, but simulating them requires being able to predict particle migration, and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jesse Ward-Bond , Ali Mashadian , Timothy C. Y. Chan , Edmond W. K. Young

Reinforcement learning is applied to the development of control strategies in order to reduce skin friction drag in a fully developed turbulent channel flow at a low Reynolds number. Motivated by the so-called opposition control (Choi et…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-26 Takahiro Sonoda , Zhuchen Liu , Toshitaka Itoh , Yosuke Hasegawa

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful method for generative modeling on domains like images or videos, and even on irregular or unstructured data like 3D point clouds or even protein structures. These models are commonly trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuyang Wang , Anurag Ranjan , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

Smooth and curved microstructural topologies found in nature - from soap films to trabecular bone - have inspired several mimetic design spaces for architected metamaterials and bio-scaffolds. However, the design approaches so far have been…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yaqi Guo , Saurav Sharma , Siddhant Kumar

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for active flow control (AFC) to reduce drag in aerodynamic bodies. Tested on a 3D cylinder at Re = 100, the DRL approach achieved a 9.32% drag reduction and a 78.4% decrease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ricard Montalà , Bernat Font , Pol Suárez , Jean Rabault , Oriol Lehmkuhl , Ivette Rodriguez

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has found application in numerous use-cases pertaining to flow control. Multi-agent RL (MARL), a variant of DRL, has shown to be more effective than single-agent RL in controlling flows exhibiting locality…

From higher computational efficiency to enabling the discovery of novel and complex structures, deep learning has emerged as a powerful framework for the design and optimization of nanophotonic circuits and components. However, both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Christopher Yeung , Benjamin Pham , Zihan Zhang , Katherine T. Fountaine , Aaswath P. Raman

Carefully engineered radiofrequency (RF) pulses play a key role in a number of systems such as mobile phone, radar, and magnetic resonance imaging. The design of an RF waveform, however, is often posed as an inverse problem with no general…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Dongmyung Shin , Younghoon Kim , Chungseok Oh , Hongjun An , Juhyung Park , Jiye Kim , Jongho Lee

The aim of the inverse chemical design is to develop new molecules with given optimized molecular properties or objectives. Recently, generative deep learning (DL) networks are considered as the state-of-the-art in inverse chemical design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haoran Wei , Mariefel Olarte , Garrett B. Goh

The recent advent of advanced microfabrication capabilities of microfluidic devices has driven attention towards the behavior of particles in inertial flows within microchannels for applications related to the separation and concentration…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-03 Mike Garcia , Sumita Pennathur

Recent advances have shown that video generation models can enhance robot learning by deriving effective robot actions through inverse dynamics. However, these methods heavily depend on the quality of generated data and struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Kelin Yu , Sheng Zhang , Harshit Soora , Furong Huang , Heng Huang , Pratap Tokekar , Ruohan Gao

Generative policies based on diffusion models and flow matching have shown strong promise for offline reinforcement learning (RL), but their applicability remains largely confined to continuous action spaces. To address a broader range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Fairoz Nower Khan , Nabuat Zaman Nahim , Ruiquan Huang , Haibo Yang , Peizhong Ju

We introduce a novel approach to the three-dimensional reconstruction of superfluid vortex filaments using deep convolutional neural networks. Superfluid vortices, quantum mechanical phenomena of immense scientific interest, are challenging…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-25 Nick Keepfer , Thomas Flynn , Nick Parker , Thomas Billam

Style transfer, a pivotal task in image processing, synthesizes visually compelling images by seamlessly blending realistic content with artistic styles, enabling applications in photo editing and creative design. While mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yingying Deng , Xiangyu He , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Xucheng Yin

Composite materials often exhibit mechanical anisotropy owing to the material properties or geometrical configurations of the microstructure. This makes their inverse design a two-fold problem. First, we must learn the type and orientation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Asghar A. Jadoon , Karl A. Kalina , Manuel K. Rausch , Reese Jones , Jan N. Fuhg

Inverse problems aim to determine parameters from observations, a crucial task in engineering and science. Lately, generative models, especially diffusion models, have gained popularity in this area for their ability to produce realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Gabriel della Maggiora , Luis Alberto Croquevielle , Nikita Deshpande , Harry Horsley , Thomas Heinis , Artur Yakimovich

Reinforcement Learning (RL) of robotic manipulation skills, despite its impressive successes, stands to benefit from incorporating domain knowledge from control theory. One of the most important properties that is of interest is control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Shahbaz Abdul Khader , Hang Yin , Pietro Falco , Danica Kragic