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Consider the problem of finding an optimal value of some objective functional subject to constraints over numerical domain. This type of problem arises frequently in practical engineering tasks. Nowdays almost all general methods for…

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Inverse design of metasurfaces for specific electromagnetic responses requires generating geometries that satisfy stringent spectral constraints while maintaining manufacturability. Conventional design methodologies rely on iterative…

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In real-world machine learning deployments, models must be continually updated, composed, and when required, selectively undone. However, existing approaches to model merging and continual learning often suffer from task interference,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haris Khan , Sadia Asif , Shumaila Asif , Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat , Rajesh Upadhayaya

Optimization with constraints is a typical problem in quantum physics and quantum information science that becomes especially challenging for high-dimensional systems and complex architectures like tensor networks. Here we use ideas of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Ilia A. Luchnikov , Mikhail E. Krechetov , Sergey N. Filippov

We present a geometric framework for the inverse design of smart woven fabrics composed of non-uniformly shrinking threads. A sufficiently tight weaving structure imposes strong local criteria on the material deformation and reduces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-23 Einav Berin , Hillel Aharoni

This paper presents a fast inverse design framework for complex multilayered, multiport pixelated surfaces - a class of structures largely unexplored in current research. Leveraging a method-of-moments (MoM) electromagnetic (EM) solver, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Woojun Lee , Jungmin Lee , Jeffrey S. Walling

Over the past decade, artificially engineered optical materials and nanostructured thin films have revolutionized the area of photonics by employing novel concepts of metamaterials and metasurfaces where spatially varying structures yield…

Algorithm designers typically assume that the input data is correct, and then proceed to find "optimal" or "sub-optimal" solutions using this input data. However this assumption of correct data does not always hold in practice, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Hal Daumé , Samir Khuller , Manish Purohit , Gregory Sanders

Existing auto-regressive mesh generation approaches suffer from ineffective topology preservation, which is crucial for practical applications. This limitation stems from previous mesh tokenization methods treating meshes as simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gaochao Song , Zibo Zhao , Haohan Weng , Jingbo Zeng , Rongfei Jia , Shenghua Gao

Most problems in natural language processing can be approximated as inverse problems such as analysis and generation at variety of levels from morphological (e.g., cat+Plural <-> cats) to semantic (e.g., (call + 1 2) <-> "Calculate one plus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Gözde Gül Şahin , Iryna Gurevych

The ability to readily design novel materials with chosen functional properties on-demand represents a next frontier in materials discovery. However, thoroughly and efficiently sampling the entire design space in a computationally tractable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang , Guoxiang Hu , P. Ganesh , Bobby G. Sumpter

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

Tailoring materials to achieve a desired behavior in specific applications is of significant scientific and industrial interest as design of materials is a key driver to innovation. Overcoming the rather slow and expertise-bound traditional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Alexander Raßloff , Paul Seibert , Karl A. Kalina , Markus Kästner

On-demand vibration mitigation in a mechanical system needs the suitable design of multiscale metastructures, involving complex unit cells. In this study, immersing in the world of patterns and examining the structural details of some…

We provide a compact 200 line MATLAB code demonstrating how topology optimization (TopOpt) as an inverse design tool may be used in photonics, targeting the design of two-dimensional dielectric metalenses and a metallic reflector as…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Rasmus E. Christiansen , Ole Sigmund

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

In this paper we present a comprehensive study on the multi-objective optimization of two-dimensional porous phononic crystals (PnCs) in both square and triangular lattices with the reduced topology symmetry of the unit-cell. The fast…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-09 Hao-Wen Dong , Yue-Sheng Wang , Yan-Feng Wang , Chuanzeng Zhang

Topology Optimization (TO) provides a systematic approach for obtaining structure design with optimum performance of interest. However, the process requires numerical evaluation of objective function and constraints at each iteration, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ren Kai Tan , Chao Qian , Dan Xu , Wenjing Ye

The traditional element-based topology optimization based on material penalization typically aims at a 0/1 design. Our numerical experiments reveal that the compliance of a smooth design is overestimated when material properties of boundary…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiaodong Huang

We propose and analyse primal-dual interior-point algorithms for convex optimization problems in conic form. The families of algorithms we analyse are so-called short-step algorithms and they match the current best iteration complexity…

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