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Electromagnetic metasurfaces have attracted significant interest recently due to their low profile and advantageous applications. Practically, many metasurface designs start with a set of constraints for the radiated far-field, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-04 Stewart Pearson , Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

Conventional phased-array metasurfaces utilize resonant nanoparticles or nanowaveguides to specify spatially-dependent amplitude and phase responses to light. In nearly all these implementations, subwavelength-scale elements are stitched…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-17 Jianji Yang , David Sell , Jonathan A. Fan

The goal of Feature Selection - comprising filter, wrapper, and embedded approaches - is to find the optimal feature subset for designated downstream tasks. Nevertheless, current feature selection methods are limited by: 1) the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Meng Xiao , Dongjie Wang , Min Wu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

Optical multiplexing is a key technique that enhances the capacity of optical systems by independently modulating various optical parameters to carry distinct information. Among these parameters, wavelength, polarization, and angle are the…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-20 Rui Wei , Hongsheng Shi , Boyou Wang , Baojun Li , Yanjun Bao

Recent efforts to accelerate first-order methods have focused on convex optimization problems that satisfy a geometric property known as error-bound condition, which covers a broad class of problems, including piece-wise linear programs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qihang Lin , Negar Soheili , Runchao Ma , Selvaprabu Nadarajah

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

Metasurfaces have been proposed as a new paradigm to manipulate light and improve light-matter interactions. Conventional metasurfaces are restricted to the loss of materials, limiting their performance ceiling. Here, the loss of metallic…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-02 Yisheng Gao

Bilevel optimization is a central tool in machine learning for high-dimensional hyperparameter tuning. Its applications are vast; for instance, in imaging it can be used for learning data-adaptive regularizers and optimizing forward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Mohammad Sadegh Salehi , Subhadip Mukherjee , Lindon Roberts , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Topology optimization is a valuable tool in engineering, facilitating the design of optimized structures. However, topological changes often require a remeshing step, which can become challenging. In this work, we propose an isogeometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Guilherme Henrique Teixeira , Nepomuk Krenn , Peter Gangl , Benjamin Marussig

The classical adjoint-based topology optimization (TO) method, based on the use of a random continuous dielectric function as an adjoint variable distribution, is known to be one of the most efficient optimization methods that enable the…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-01 Kofi Edee , Mauro Antezza , Brahim Guizal

We focus on a geometrical inverse problem that involves recovering discontinuities in electrical conductivity based on boundary measurements. This problem serves as a model to introduce a shape recovery technique that merges the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Bastian Harrach , Houcine Meftahi

We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Christoph Lehrenfeld

Metasurfaces, with their ability to control electromagnetic waves, hold immense potential in optical device design, especially for applications requiring precise control over dispersion. This work introduces an approach to dispersion…

The level set method is a widely used tool for solving reachability and invariance problems. However, some shortcomings, such as the difficulties of handling dissipation function and constructing terminal conditions for solving the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Wei Liao , Taotao Liang , Xiaohui Wei , Jizhou Lai

Electromagnetic metasurfaces offer the capability to realize almost arbitrary power conserving field transformations. These field transformations are governed by the generalized sheet transition conditions, which relate the tangential…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Stewart Pearson , Sean V. Hum

Micro-structured materials consisting of an array of microstructures are engineered to provide the specific material properties. This present work investigates the design of cellular materials under the framework of level set, so as to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jie Gao , Hao Li , Zhen Luo , Liang Gao , Peigen Li

Stochastic multi-level compositional optimization problems cover many new machine learning paradigms, e.g., multi-step model-agnostic meta-learning, which require efficient optimization algorithms for large-scale data. This paper studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Hongchang Gao

We propose a comprehensive field-based semianalytical method for designing fabrication-ready multifunctional periodic metasurfaces (MSs). Harnessing recent work on multielement metagratings based on capacitively-loaded strips, we have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Vinay K. Killamsetty , Ariel Epstein

We introduce new multilevel methods for solving large-scale unconstrained optimization problems. Specifically, the philosophy of multilevel methods is applied to Newton-type methods that regularize the Newton sub-problem using second order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas

This paper presents a novel optimization method for maximizing generalization over tasks in meta-learning. The goal of meta-learning is to learn a model for an agent adapting rapidly when presented with previously unseen tasks. Tasks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram