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In this paper we present a mixed projection- and density-based topology optimization approach. The aim is to combine the benefits of both parametrizations: the explicit geometric representation provides specific controls on certain design…

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Nonlinear metamaterials with tailored mechanical properties have applications in engineering, medicine, robotics, and beyond. While modeling their macromechanical behavior is challenging in itself, finding structure parameters that lead to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yue Li , Stelian Coros , Bernhard Thomaszewski

While both shape and texture are fundamental to visual recognition, research on deep neural networks (DNNs) has predominantly focused on the latter, leaving their geometric understanding poorly probed. Here, we show: first, that optimized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jian Wang , Yixing Yong , Haixia Bi , Lijun He , Fan Li

This paper focuses on the statistical analysis of shapes of data objects called shape graphs, a set of nodes connected by articulated curves with arbitrary shapes. A critical need here is a constrained registration of points (nodes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shenyuan Liang , Mauricio Pamplona Segundo , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur , Sudeep Sarkar , Anuj Srivastava

The high computational complexity and increasing parameter counts of deep neural networks pose significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments, such as edge devices or real-time systems. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Laura Erb , Tommaso Boccato , Alexandru Vasilache , Juergen Becker , Nicola Toschi

Recent numerical experiments have demonstrated that the choice of optimization geometry used during training can impact generalization performance when learning expressive nonlinear model classes such as deep neural networks. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Nicholas M. Boffi , Stephen Tu , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown superior performance on diverse real-world applications. To improve the model capacity, besides designing aggregation operations, GNN topology design is also very important. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Lanning Wei , Huan Zhao , Zhiqiang He

We propose to impose symmetry in neural network parameters to improve parameter usage and make use of dedicated convolution and matrix multiplication routines. Due to significant reduction in the number of parameters as a result of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Xu Shell Hu , Sergey Zagoruyko , Nikos Komodakis

Topology design optimization offers tremendous opportunity in design and manufacturing freedoms by designing and producing a part from the ground-up without a meaningful initial design as required by conventional shape design optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-10 Sharad Rawat , M. H. Herman Shen

Deep neural networks with lots of parameters are typically used for large-scale computer vision tasks such as image classification. This is a result of using dense matrix multiplications and convolutions. However, sparse computations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Suraj Srinivas , Akshayvarun Subramanya , R. Venkatesh Babu

Topology optimization is computationally demanding that requires the assembly and solution to a finite element problem for each material distribution hypothesis. As a complementary alternative to the traditional physics-based topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Saurabh Banga , Harsh Gehani , Sanket Bhilare , Sagar Patel , Levent Kara

Based on the continuous interpretation of deep learning cast as an optimal control problem, this paper investigates the benefits of employing B-spline basis functions to parameterize neural network controls across the layers. Rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Stefanie Günther , Will Pazner , Dongping Qi

The design of fluid channel structures of reactors or separators of chemical processes is key to enhancing the mass transfer processes inside the devices. However, the systematic design of channel topological structures is difficult for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-07 Chenhui Kou , Yuhui Yin , Min Zhu , Shengkun Jia , Yiqing Luo , Xigang Yuana , Lu Lu

Real-world applications of computational fluid dynamics often involve the evaluation of quantities of interest for several distinct geometries that define the computational domain or are embedded inside it. For example, design optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Guglielmo Padula , Francesco Romor , Giovanni Stabile , Gianluigi Rozza

The excellent performance of deep neural networks has enabled us to solve several automatization problems, opening an era of autonomous devices. However, current deep net architectures are heavy with millions of parameters and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Dat Thanh Tran , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

We apply recent advances in machine learning and computer vision to a central problem in materials informatics: The statistical representation of microstructural images. We use activations in a pre-trained convolutional neural network to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Nicholas Lubbers , Turab Lookman , Kipton Barros

In this paper we propose a method to generate suitably refined finite element meshes using neural networks. As a model problem we consider a linear elasticity problem on a planar domain (possibly with holes) having a polygonal boundary. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Chiu Ling Chan , Felix Scholz , Thomas Takacs

Nowadays, neural networks act as a synonym for artificial intelligence. Present neural network models, although remarkably powerful, are inefficient both in terms of data and energy. Several alternative forms of neural networks have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mario Franco , Carlos Gershenson

Using neural networks to solve variational problems, and other scientific machine learning tasks, has been limited by a lack of consistency and an inability to exactly integrate expressions involving neural network architectures. We address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jonas A. Actor , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

We learn parameterized nonlinear elasticity on curved surfaces using a physics-informed neural network that enforces governing equations and boundary conditions directly through the loss function, enabling a single trained model to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yankang Liu , Ke Zhang , Maziar Raissi , Roya Zandi