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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are increasingly deployed on large-scale document collections, often comprising millions of documents and tens of millions of text chunks. In industrial-scale retrieval platforms, scalability is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Dario Maio , Stefano Rizzi

We develop and apply a novel shape optimization exemplified for a two-blade rotor with respect to the figure of merit ($FM$). This topologically assisted optimization (TAO) contains two steps. First a global evolutionary optimization is…

3D printing techniques such as Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) have enabled the fabrication of complex geometry quickly and cheaply. High stiffness parts are produced by filling the 2D polygons of consecutive layers with contour-parallel…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Tim Kuipers , Eugeni L. Doubrovski , Jun Wu , Charlie C. L. Wang

Generative models have attracted considerable attention for their ability to produce novel shapes. However, their application in mechanical design remains constrained due to the limited size and variability of available datasets. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yongmin Kwon , Namwoo Kang

Gradient-free black-box optimization (BBO) is widely used in engineering design and provides a flexible framework for topology optimization (TO), enabling the discovery of high-performing structural designs without requiring gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jelle Westra , Iván Olarte Rodríguez , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Elena Raponi

Learning from nature has been a quest of humanity for millennia. While this has taken the form of humans assessing natural designs such as bones, butterfly wings, or spider webs, we can now achieve generating designs using advanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Markus J. Buehler

Broad beam beamforming (BF) design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can be convenient for initial access, synchronization, and sensing capabilities in cellular networks by avoiding overheads of sweeping methods while making…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Offline model-based optimization (MBO) aims to maximize a black-box objective function using only an offline dataset of designs and scores. These tasks span various domains, such as robotics, material design, and protein and molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Ye Yuan , Youyuan Zhang , Can Chen , Haolun Wu , Zixuan Li , Jianmo Li , James J. Clark , Xue Liu

The mechanical properties of metallic nanostructures are governed not only by topology but also by crystal symmetry and face-specific surface physics, which are typically absent from continuum topology optimization. We develop an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Chun-Teh Chen , Denvid Lau

Multiresolution topology optimization (MTO) methods involve decoupling of the design and analysis discretizations, such that a high-resolution design can be obtained at relatively low analysis costs. Recent studies have shown that the MTO…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Deepak K. Gupta , Fred van Keulen , Matthijs Langelaar

Geometry-morphing Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are gaining more and more attention lately, since their ability to modify their geometric morphology in-flight increases their versatility, while expanding their application range. In this…

Sorting cells based on their mechanical properties is essential for applications in disease diagnostics, cell therapy, and biomedical research. Deterministic Lateral Displacement (DLD) devices provide a label-free method for achieving such…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-08 Khayrul Islam , Mehedi Hasan , Yaling Liu

Co-designing a robot's morphology and control can ensure synergistic interactions between them, prevalent in biological organisms. However, co-design is a high-dimensional search problem. To make this search tractable, we need a systematic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Apoorv Vaish , Oliver Brock

In aerospace engineering, there is a growing demand for lightweight design through topology optimization. This paper presents a novel design optimization method for stiffened air rudders, commonly used for aircraft attitude control, based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Yibo Jia , Wen Meng , Zongliang Du , Chang Liu , Shanwei Li , Conglei Wang , Zhifu Ge , Ruiyi Su , Xu Guo

In this paper, we present a novel data-driven optimization approach for trajectory based air traffic flow management (ATFM). A key aspect of the proposed approach is the inclusion of airspace users' trajectory preferences, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Luigi De Giovanni , Guglielmo Lulli , Carlo Lancia

The design and optimisation of aircraft wings are critical tasks in aerospace engineering, requiring a balance between structural integrity, aerostructural performance, and manufacturability. This multifaceted challenge involves the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hauke Maathuis , Saullo G. P. Castro , Roeland De Breuker

The capability of holography to project three-dimensional (3D) images and correct for aberrations offers much potential to enhance optical control in light-based 3D printing. Notably, multi-beam multi-wavelength holographic systems…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-30 Chi Chung Li , Joseph Toombs , Vivek Subramanian , Hayden K. Taylor

A computational method is presented which is capable to obtain low lying energy structures of topological amorphous systems. The method merges a differential mutation genetic algorithm with simulated annealing. This is done by incorporating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Katja Biswas

One of the challenging issues in additive manufacturing (AM) oriented topology optimization is how to design structures that are self-supportive in a manufacture process without introducing additional supporting materials. In the present…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xu Guo , Jianhua Zhou , Weisheng Zhang , Zongliang Du , Chang Liu , Ying Liu

Brain-body co-optimization remains a challenging problem, despite increasing interest from the community in recent years. To understand and overcome the challenges, we propose exhaustively mapping a morphology-fitness landscape to study it.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Alican Mertan , Nick Cheney