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Disordered metamaterials are promising for programming physical properties across diverse applications, yet their inverse design remains challenging due to the non-intuitive structure-property relationships and large design spaces. Recent…

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The rapid progress in generative models has resulted in impressive leaps in generation quality, blurring the lines between synthetic and real data. Web-scale datasets are now prone to the inevitable contamination by synthetic data, directly…

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Inverse design is a common yet challenging engineering problem, particularly for nonlinear functional responses such as mechanical behavior or spectral analysis. Deep generative models are motivated by intractability, non-existence or…

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For a very long time, computational approaches to the design of new materials have relied on an iterative process of finding a candidate material and modeling its properties. AI has played a crucial role in this regard, helping to…

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While generative models have proved successful in many domains, they may pose a privacy leakage risk in practical deployment. To address this issue, differentially private generative model learning has emerged as a solution to train private…

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Materials discovery is decisive for tackling urgent challenges related to energy, the environment, health care and many others. In chemistry, conventional methodologies for innovation usually rely on expensive and incremental strategies to…

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Computing atomic-scale properties of chemically disordered materials requires an efficient exploration of their vast configuration space. Traditional approaches such as Monte Carlo or Special Quasirandom Structures either entail sampling an…

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Although generative models hold promise for discovering molecules with optimized desired properties, they often fail to suggest synthesizable molecules that improve upon the known molecules seen in training. We find that a key limitation is…

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Generative learning generates high dimensional data based on low dimensional conditions, also called prompts. Therefore, generative learning algorithms are eligible for solving (Bayesian) inverse problems. In this article we compare a…

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