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Given a set of observations generated by an optimization process, the goal of inverse optimization is to determine likely parameters of that process. We cast inverse optimization as a form of deep learning. Our method, called deep inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yingcong Tan , Andrew Delong , Daria Terekhov

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to be effective in producing approximate solutions to some vehicle routing problems (VRPs), especially when using policies generated by encoder-decoder attention mechanisms. While these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Joshua Levin , Randall Correll , Takanori Ide , Takafumi Suzuki , Takaho Saito , Alan Arai

Inverse design (ID) is a computational method that systematically explores a design space to find optimal device geometries based on specific performance criteria. In silicon photonics, ID often leads to devices with design features that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Shaheer Khan , Mustafa Hammood , Nicolas A. F. Jaeger , Lukas Chrostowski

Deep learning models for vision tasks are trained on large datasets under the assumption that there exists a universal representation that can be used to make predictions for all samples. Whereas high complexity models are proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Botos Csaba , Adel Bibi , Yanwei Li , Philip Torr , Ser-Nam Lim

We consider the problem of distributionally robust multimodal machine learning. Existing approaches often rely on merging modalities on the feature level (early fusion) or heuristic uncertainty modeling, which downplays modality-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peilin Yang , Yu Ma

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

Inverse design, the process of matching a device or process parameters to exhibit a desired performance, is applied in many disciplines ranging from material design over chemical processes and to engineering. Machine learning has emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Michel Frising , Jorge Bravo-Abad , Ferry Prins

Multiplication is a fundamental operation in many applications, and multipliers are widely adopted in various circuits. However, optimizing multipliers is challenging due to the extensive design space. In this paper, we propose a multiplier…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Dongsheng Zuo , Jiadong Zhu , Yikang Ouyang , Yuzhe Ma

This study develops a robot mobility policy based on deep reinforcement learning. Since traditional methods of conventional robotic navigation depend on accurate map reproduction as well as require high-end sensors, learning-based methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Minh Q. Tran , Ngoc Q. Ly

Materials-by-design has been historically challenging due to complex process-microstructure-property relations. Conventional analytical or simulation-based approaches suffer from low accuracy or long computational time and poor…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Xiao Shang , Zhiying Liu , Jiahui Zhang , Tianyi Lyu , Yu Zou

In this work the problem of path planning for an autonomous vehicle that moves on a freeway is considered. The most common approaches that are used to address this problem are based on optimal control methods, which make assumptions about…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Konstantinos Makantasis , Maria Kontorinaki , Ioannis Nikolos

We propose and show the efficacy of a new method to address generic inverse problems. Inverse modeling is the task whereby one seeks to determine the control parameters of a natural system that produce a given set of observed measurements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Gregory P. Spell , Simiao Ren , Leslie M. Collins , Jordan M. Malof

In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning emerged as a promising approach for autonomous navigation of ground vehicles and has been utilized in various areas of navigation such as cruise control, lane changing, or obstacle avoidance.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Linh Kästner , Marvin Meusel , Teham Bhuiyan , Jens Lambrecht

This article develops a deep reinforcement learning (Deep-RL) framework for dynamic pricing on managed lanes with multiple access locations and heterogeneity in travelers' value of time, origin, and destination. This framework relaxes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Venktesh Pandey , Evana Wang , Stephen D. Boyles

It has long been hoped that model-based control will improve tracking performance while maintaining or increasing compliance. This hope hinges on having or being able to estimate an accurate inverse dynamics model. As a result, substantial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Nathan Ratliff , Franziska Meier , Daniel Kappler , Stefan Schaal

This paper presents a global trajectory optimization framework for minimizing lap time in autonomous racing under uncertain vehicle dynamics. Optimizing the trajectory over the full racing horizon is computationally expensive, and tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Youngim Nam , Jungbin Kim , Kyungtae Kang , Cheolhyeon Kwon

We present a novel deep reinforcement learning method to learn construction heuristics for vehicle routing problems. In specific, we propose a Multi-Decoder Attention Model (MDAM) to train multiple diverse policies, which effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Liang Xin , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang

Benders decomposition (BD), along with its generalized version (GBD), is a widely used algorithm for solving large-scale mixed-integer optimization problems that arise in the operation of process systems. However, the off-the-shelf…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Zhe Li , Bernard T. Agyeman , Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

Autonomous navigation of mobile robots is an essential aspect in use cases such as delivery, assistance or logistics. Although traditional planning methods are well integrated into existing navigation systems, they struggle in highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Linh Kästner , Johannes Cox , Teham Buiyan , Jens Lambrecht

Determining the optimal cost function parameters of Model Predictive Control (MPC) to optimize multiple control objectives is a challenging and time-consuming task. Multiobjective Bayesian Optimization (BO) techniques solve this problem by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Baha Zarrouki , Marios Spanakakis , Johannes Betz