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Deep learning, as a highly efficient method for metasurface inverse design, commonly use simulation data to train deep neural networks (DNNs) that can map desired functionalities to proper metasurface designs. However, the assumptions and…

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Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the generation of realistic data by training generative models on large datasets of text, images, and audio. While these models have demonstrated exceptional performance in generating novel and…

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Many decision problems in science, engineering and economics are affected by uncertain parameters whose distribution is only indirectly observable through samples. The goal of data-driven decision-making is to learn a decision from finitely…

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Finite element simulations are run by package design engineers to model design structures. The process is irreversible meaning every minute structural adjustment requires a fresh input parameter run. In this paper, the problem of modeling…

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Ultrashort-pulse propagation in graded-index multimode fibers is a highly nonlinear phenomenon driven by several physical processes. Although conventional numerical solvers can reproduce this behavior with high fidelity, their computational…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-24 Dinesh Kumar Murugan , Nithyanandan Kanagaraj

Optical devices lie at the heart of most of the technology we see around us. When one actually wants to make such an optical device, one can predict its optical behavior using computational simulations of Maxwell's equations. If one then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Joeri Lenaerts , Hannah Pinson , Vincent Ginis

Designing protein sequences that fold into a target 3D structure, known as protein inverse folding, is a fundamental challenge in protein engineering. While recent deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance by recovering…

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Reinforcement learning can acquire complex behaviors from high-level specifications. However, defining a cost function that can be optimized effectively and encodes the correct task is challenging in practice. We explore how inverse optimal…

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We introduce an adjoint-based aerodynamic shape optimization framework that integrates a diffusion model trained on existing designs to learn a smooth manifold of aerodynamically viable shapes. This manifold is enforced as an equality…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Long Chen , Emre Oezkaya , Jan Rottmayer , Nicolas R. Gauger , Zebang Shen , Yinyu Ye

Data inconsistency leads to a slow training process when deep neural networks are used for the inverse design of photonic devices, an issue that arises from the fundamental property of non-uniqueness in all inverse scattering problems. Here…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-09 Dianjing Liu , Yixuan Tan , Erfan Khoram , Zongfu Yu

Within wind farms, wake effects between turbines can significantly reduce overall energy production. Wind farm flow control encompasses methods designed to mitigate these effects through coordinated turbine control. Wake steering, for…

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Machine learning-based models provide a promising way to rapidly acquire transonic swept wing flow fields but suffer from large computational costs in establishing training datasets. Here, we propose a physics-embedded transfer learning…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yunjia Yang , Runze Li , Yufei Zhang , Lu Lu , Haixin Chen

We propose a novel solution framework for inverse mixed-integer optimization based on analytic center concepts from interior point methods. We characterize the optimality gap of a given solution, provide structural results, and propose…

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The aerodynamic optimization process of cars requires multiple iterations between aerodynamicists and stylists. Response Surface Modeling and Reduced-Order Modeling are commonly used to eliminate the overhead due to Computational Fluid…

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Non-Hermitian systems offer new platforms for unusual physical properties that can be flexibly manipulated by redistribution of the real and imaginary parts of refractive indices, whose presence breaks conventional wave propagation…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-29 W. W. Ahmed , M. Farhat , K. Staliunas , X. Zhang , Y. Wu

Inverse treatment planning in radiation therapy is formulated as optimization problems. The objective function and constraints consist of multiple terms designed for different clinical and practical considerations. Weighting factors of…

A broad class of problems at the core of computational imaging, sensing, and low-level computer vision reduces to the inverse problem of extracting latent images that follow a prior distribution, from measurements taken under a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Felix Heide , Gordon Wetzstein

In addition to the forward inference of materials properties using machine learning, generative deep learning techniques applied on materials science allow the inverse design of materials, i.e., assessing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Teng Long , Yixuan Zhang , Hongbin Zhang

Deep learning has emerged as a key tool for designing nanophotonic structures that manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales. We investigate how to inversely design plasmonic nanostructures using conditional generative adversarial networks.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-21 Petter Persson , Nils Henriksson , Nicolò Maccaferri

Machine learning techniques, notably various deep neural network methods, are instrumental in processing extensive and intricate data sets in engineering and scientific fields. This paper shows how deep neural networks can inversely design…

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