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Generative AI has redefined artificial intelligence, enabling the creation of innovative content and customized solutions that drive business practices into a new era of efficiency and creativity. In this paper, we focus on diffusion…

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We aim to solve a topology optimization problem where the distribution of material in the design domain is represented by a density function. To obtain candidates for local minima, we want to solve the first order optimality system via…

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This work presents a novel method for task optimization in industrial plants using quantum-inspired tensor network technology. This method obtains the best possible combination of tasks on a set of machines with directed constraints while…

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Topology Optimization (TO), which maximizes structural robustness under material weight constraints, is becoming an essential step for the automatic design of mechanical parts. However, existing TO algorithms use the Finite Element Analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zherong Pan , Xifeng Gao , Kui Wu

Topology optimization (TO) is a popular and powerful computational approach for designing novel structures, materials, and devices. Two computational challenges have limited the applicability of TO to a variety of industrial applications.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sirui Bi , Jiaxin Zhang , Guannan Zhang

Topology optimization (TO) is a method of deriving an optimal design that satisfies a given load and boundary conditions within a design domain. This method enables effective design without initial design, but has been limited in use due to…

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Uniform flow distribution across parallel channels directly impacts the performance and efficiency of many fluid and energy systems. However, designing efficient flow manifolds that ensure uniform flow distribution remains a challenge. This…

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are the foundation of the Internet of Things (IoT), and in the era of the fifth generation of wireless communication networks, they are envisioned to be truly ubiquitous, reliable, scalable, and energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Xiangyue Meng , Hazer Inaltekin , Brian Krongold

Optimizing complex and high-dimensional black-box functions is ubiquitous in science and engineering fields. Unfortunately, the online evaluation of these functions is restricted due to time and safety constraints in most cases. In offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Taeyoung Yun , Sujin Yun , Jaewoo Lee , Jinkyoo Park

Inverse design refers to the problem of optimizing the input of an objective function in order to enact a target outcome. For many real-world engineering problems, the objective function takes the form of a simulator that predicts how the…

We create a novel optimisation technique inspired by natural ecosystems, where the optimisation works at two levels: a first optimisation, migration of genes which are distributed in a peer-to-peer network, operating continuously in time;…

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Topology optimization by optimally distributing materials in a given domain requires non-gradient optimizers to solve highly complicated problems. However, with hundreds of design variables or more involved, solving such problems would…

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Generative models such as denoising diffusion models are quickly advancing their ability to approximate highly complex data distributions. They are also increasingly leveraged in scientific machine learning, where samples from the implied…

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Typical topology optimization methods require complex iterative calculations, which cannot meet the requirements of fast computing applications. The neural network is studied to reduce the time of computing the optimization result, however,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Ce Guan , Jianyu Zhang , Zhen Li , Yongbo Deng

The area of topology optimization of continuum structures of which is allowed to change in order to improve the performance is now dominated by methods that employ the material distribution concept. The typical methods of the topology…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Jun-ichi Koga , Jiro Koga , Shunji Homma

Topology optimization techniques have been applied in integrated optics and nanophotonics for the inverse design of devices with shapes that cannot be conceived by human intuition. At optical frequencies, these techniques have only been…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-15 Emadeldeen Hassan , Antonio Calà Lesina

We introduce an efficient and scalable method for density-based multi-material topology optimization, integrating classical mirror descent techniques with point-wise polytopal design constraints. Such constraints arise naturally in this…

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A long-standing challenge is designing multi-scale structures with good connectivity between cells while optimizing each cell to reach close to the theoretical performance limit. We propose a new method for direct multi-scale topology…

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