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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…

Materials discovery is fundamental to advance next-generation technologies as well as for sustainable and circular economy. Beyond computational screening, generative models are efficient at finding materials with desired properties, via…

A standard quadratic program is an optimization problem that consists of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex. We focus on reformulating a standard quadratic program as a mixed integer linear programming problem. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Jacek Gondzio , E. Alper Yildirim

The synthesis of a metasurface exhibiting a specific set of desired scattering properties is a time-consuming and resource-demanding process, which conventionally relies on many cycles of full-wave simulations. It requires an experienced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

The discovery of new materials has been the essential force which brings a discontinuous improvement to industrial products' performance. However, the extra-vast combinatorial design space of material structures exceeds human experts'…

This study presents a methodology to treat performance-based seismic design as an inverse engineering problem, where design parameters are directly derived to achieve specific performance objectives. By implementing explainable machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

Over the past few decades, neuroscience experiments have become increasingly complex and naturalistic. Experimental design has in turn become more challenging, as experiments must conform to an ever-increasing diversity of design…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-07 Storm Slivkoff , Jack L. Gallant

Computational imaging systems jointly design computation and hardware to retrieve information which is not traditionally accessible with standard imaging systems. Recently, critical aspects such as experimental design and image priors are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Michael Kellman , Jon Tamir , Emrah Boston , Michael Lustig , Laura Waller

Cutting plane selection is a subroutine used in all modern mixed-integer linear programming solvers with the goal of selecting a subset of generated cuts that induce optimal solver performance. These solvers have millions of parameter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Mark Turner , Thorsten Koch , Felipe Serrano , Michael Winkler

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Space-filling designs are commonly used in computer experiments to fill the space of inputs so that the input-output relationship can be accurately estimated. However, in certain applications such as inverse design or feature-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-08 Shangkun Wang , Adam P. Generale , Surya R. Kalidindi , V. Roshan Joseph

System design tools are often only available as input-output blackboxes: for a given design as input they compute an output representing system behavior. Blackboxes are intended to be run in the forward direction. This paper presents a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Sanjai Narain , Emily Mak , Dana Chee , Brendan Englot , Kishore Pochiraju , Niraj K. Jha , Karthik Narayan

The research of metamaterials has achieved enormous success in the manipulation of light in an artificially prescribed manner using delicately designed sub-wavelength structures, so-called meta-atoms. Even though modern numerical methods…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-31 Wei Ma , Feng Cheng , Yihao Xu , Qinlong Wen , Yongmin Liu

In robust optimization, the general aim is to find a solution that performs well over a set of possible parameter outcomes, the so-called uncertainty set. In this paper, we assume that the uncertainty size is not fixed, and instead aim at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-24 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk

We study a mutually enriching connection between response time analysis in real-time systems and the mixing set problem. Thereby generalizing over known results we present a new approach to the computation of response times in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen

We focus on modeling the relationship between an input feature vector and the predicted outcome of a trained decision tree using mixed-integer optimization. This can be used in many practical applications where a decision tree or tree…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Max Biggs , Georgia Perakis

Today, most methods for image understanding tasks rely on feed-forward neural networks. While this approach has allowed for empirical accuracy, efficiency, and task adaptation via fine-tuning, it also comes with fundamental disadvantages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Julian Ost , Tanushree Banerjee , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Inverse problems exist in many domains such as phase imaging, image processing, and computer vision. These problems are often solved with application-specific algorithms, even though their nature remains the same: mapping input image(s) to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Feng Wang , Alberto Eljarrat , Johannes Müller , Trond Henninen , Erni Rolf , Christoph Koch

The inversion of linear systems is a fundamental step in many inverse problems. Computational challenges exist when trying to invert large linear systems, where limited computing resources mean that only part of the system can be kept in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Yushan Gao , Thomas Blumensath

Solving inverse problems, where we find the input values that result in desired values of outputs, can be challenging. The solution process is often computationally expensive and it can be difficult to interpret the solution in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chandrika Kamath , Juliette Franzman , Ravi Ponmalai