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Climate change and resource depletion demand a shift from the dominant linear "take-make-use-dispose" paradigm of construction toward circular, low-waste practices. Material reuse offers a promising pathway by reducing raw material…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Arash Adel , Daniel Ruan , Ruxin Xie

Learning to change shape is a fundamental strategy of adaptation and evolution of living organisms, from bacteria and cells to tissues and animals. Human-made materials can also exhibit advanced shape morphing capabilities, but lack the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-31 Yao Du , Ryan van Mastrigt , Jonas Veenstra , Corentin Coulais

Simulating physical systems is a core component of scientific computing, encompassing a wide range of physical domains and applications. Recently, there has been a surge in data-driven methods to complement traditional numerical simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Karl Otness , Arvi Gjoka , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo , Benjamin Peherstorfer , Teseo Schneider , Denis Zorin

Motivation: In a predictive modeling setting, if sufficient details of the system behavior are known, one can build and use a simulation for making predictions. When sufficient system details are not known, one typically turns to machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-14 Timo M. Deist , Andrew Patti , Zhaoqi Wang , David Krane , Taylor Sorenson , David Craft

Direct prediction of material properties from microstructures through statistical models has shown to be a potential approach to accelerating computational material design with large design spaces. However, statistical modeling of highly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Ruijin Cang , Hechao Li , Hope Yao , Yang Jiao , Yi Ren

We present a robot learning and planning framework that produces an effective tool-use strategy with the least joint efforts, capable of handling objects different from training. Leveraging a Finite Element Method (FEM)-based simulator that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Zeyu Zhang , Ziyuan Jiao , Weiqi Wang , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Hangxin Liu

The steep computational cost of diffusion models at inference hinders their use as fast physics emulators. In the context of image and video generation, this computational drawback has been addressed by generating in the latent space of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 François Rozet , Ruben Ohana , Michael McCabe , Gilles Louppe , François Lanusse , Shirley Ho

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in accelerated materials innovation in the context of the process-structure-property chain. In this regard, it is essential to take into account manufacturing processes and tailor materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-12 Lukas Morand , Tarek Iraki , Johannes Dornheim , Stefan Sandfeld , Norbert Link , Dirk Helm

As data science and machine learning methods are taking on an increasingly important role in the materials research community, there is a need for the development of machine learning software tools that are easy to use (even for nonexperts…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Ryan Jacobs , Tam Mayeshiba , Ben Afflerbach , Luke Miles , Max Williams , Matthew Turner , Raphael Finkel , Dane Morgan

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful approach in materials discovery. Its major challenge is selecting features that create interpretable representations of materials, useful across multiple prediction tasks. We introduce an…

Modeling of physical systems includes extensive use of software packages that implement the accurate finite element method for solving differential equations considered along with the appropriate initial and boundary conditions. When the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-03-20 O. Kononenko , I. Kononenko

Gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful probes of dark matter, yet creating high-fidelity lensed images at scale remains a bottleneck. Existing tools rely on ray-tracing or forward-modeling pipelines that, while precise, are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Hamees Sayed , Pranath Reddy , Michael W. Toomey , Sergei Gleyzer

In various applications, such as virtual reality and gaming, simulating the deformation of soft tissues in the human body during interactions with external objects is essential. Traditionally, Finite Element Methods (FEM) have been employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Anton Agafonov , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Modeling the dynamic behavior of deformable objects is crucial for creating realistic digital worlds. While conventional simulations produce high-quality motions, their computational costs are often prohibitive. Subspace simulation…

Simulations of exciton and charge hopping in amorphous organic materials involve numerous physical parameters. Each of these parameters must be computed from costly ab initio calculations before the simulation can commence, resulting in a…

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are a very important tool for many industrial applications, such as aerodynamic optimization of engineering designs like cars shapes, airplanes parts etc. The output of such simulations, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Theodoros Georgiou , Sebastian Schmitt , Thomas Bäck , Nan Pu , Wei Chen , Michael Lew

Rapidly applying the effects of detector response to physics objects (e.g. electrons, muons, showers of particles) is essential in high energy physics. Currently available tools for the transformation from truth-level physics objects to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-07-07 D. Benjamin , S. V. Chekanov , W. Hopkins , Y. Li , J. R. Love

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations have an enormous prospective impact on materials modeling, offering orders of magnitude speedup over density functional theory (DFT) calculations without appreciably sacrificing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-20 Dylan Bayerl , Christopher M. Andolina , Shyam Dwaraknath , Wissam A. Saidi

What if a robot could rethink its own morphological representation to better meet the demands of diverse tasks? Most robotic systems today treat their physical form as a fixed constraint rather than an adaptive resource, forcing the same…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Nataliya Nechyporenko , Yutong Zhang , Sean Campbell , Alessandro Roncone

The accuracy and fidelity of deformation simulations are highly dependent upon the underlying constitutive material model. Commonly used linear or nonlinear constitutive material models only cover a tiny part of possible material behavior.…

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