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The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Andrew Lininger , Michael Hinczewski , Giuseppe Strangi

The rise of machine learning and additive manufacturing has enabled the design of architected materials with tailored properties that surpass those of natural materials. Inverse design offers a data-efficient alternative to trial-and-error…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Hirak Kansara , Leo Guo , Wei Tan

Inverse design of materials with desired properties is currently laborious and heavily relies on intuition of researchers through a trial-and-error process. The massive combinational spaces due to the constituent elements and their…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yuan Dong , Dawei Li , Chi Zhang , Chuhan Wu , Hong Wang , Ming Xin , Jianlin Cheng , Jian Lin

This work presents an approach to the inverse design of scattering systems by modifying the transmission matrix using reinforcement learning. We utilize Proximal Policy Optimization to navigate the highly non-convex landscape of the object…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Yuhao Kang

The design of desired behaviors in mechanical metamaterials has produced remarkable advances but has generally neglected two aspects - the inevitable presence of undesired behaviors and the role of dynamics in avoiding such behaviors.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-22 Menachem Stern , Viraaj Jayaram , Arvind Murugan

Recovering sewing patterns from draped 3D garments is a challenging problem in human digitization research. In contrast to the well-studied forward process of draping designed sewing patterns using mature physical simulation engines, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Leyang Jin , Zirong Jin , Zisheng Ye , Haokai Pang , Xiaoguang Han , Yujian Zheng , Hao Li

This manuscript presents an approach for simultaneously optimizing the connectivity and elevation of grid-shell structures acting in pure compression (or pure tension) under the combined effects of a prescribed external loading and the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Helen E. Fairclough , Karol Bolbotowski , Linwei He , Andrew Liew , Matthew Gilbert

3D generative modeling is accelerating as the technology allowing the capture of geometric data is developing. However, the acquired data is often inconsistent, resulting in unregistered meshes or point clouds. Many generative learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Thomas Besnier , Sylvain Arguillère , Emery Pierson , Mohamed Daoudi

We present a novel de-homogenization approach for efficient design of high-resolution load-bearing structures. The proposed approach builds upon a streamline-based parametrization of the design domain, using a set of space-filling and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Junpeng Wang , Rüdiger Westermann , Jun Wu

Deep learning (DL) inverse techniques have increased the speed of artificial electromagnetic material (AEM) design and improved the quality of resulting devices. Many DL inverse techniques have succeeded on a number of AEM design tasks, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Simiao Ren , Ashwin Mahendra , Omar Khatib , Yang Deng , Willie J. Padilla , Jordan M. Malof

We present a practical methodology for inverse design of compact high-order/multiresonance filters in linear passive 2-port wave-scattering systems, targeting any desired transmission spectrum (such as standard pass/stop-band filters). Our…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mo Chen , Steven G. Johnson , Aristeidis Karalis

The recent development of modular origami structures has ushered in a new era for active metamaterials with multiple degrees of freedom (multi-DOF). Notably, no systematic inverse design approach for volumetric modular origami structures…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-13 Kai Xiao , Xiang Zhou , Jaehyung Ju

The capability to generate simulation-ready garment models from 3D shapes of clothed humans will significantly enhance the interpretability of captured geometry of real garments, as well as their faithful reproduction in the virtual world.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Boyang Yu , Frederic Cordier , Hyewon Seo

Shape-morphing structures, which are able to change their shapes from one state to another, are important in a wide range of engineering applications. A popular scenario is morphing from an initial two-dimensional (2D) shape that is flat to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-22 Yunlan Zhang , Jingyi Yang , Mingchao Liu , Dominic Vella

Bounding volumes are an established concept in computer graphics and vision tasks but have seen little change since their early inception. In this work, we study the use of neural networks as bounding volumes. Our key observation is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Stephanie Wenxin Liu , Michael Fischer , Paul D. Yoo , Tobias Ritschel

Reverse engineering CAD models from raw geometry is a classic but strenuous research problem. Previous learning-based methods rely heavily on labels due to the supervised design patterns or reconstruct CAD shapes that are not easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Pu Li , Jianwei Guo , Xiaopeng Zhang , Dong-ming Yan

Microfluidic devices are utilized to control and direct flow behavior in a wide variety of applications, particularly in medical diagnostics. A particularly popular form of microfluidics -- called inertial microfluidic flow sculpting --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Xian Yeow Lee , Aditya Balu , Daniel Stoecklein , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian , Soumik Sarkar

Disordered metamaterials are promising for programming physical properties across diverse applications, yet their inverse design remains challenging due to the non-intuitive structure-property relationships and large design spaces. Recent…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ziyuan Xie , Weipeng Xu , Dazhi Zhao , Wenchang Zhang , Daoyang Dong , Bingbing Xu , Ning Liu , Sheng Mao , Tianju Xue

The advent of two-dimensional metamaterials in recent years has ushered in a revolutionary means to manipulate the behavior of light on the nanoscale. The effective parameters of these architected materials render unprecedented control over…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Zhaocheng Liu , Dayu Zhu , Sean P. Rodrigues , Kyu-Tae Lee , Wenshan Cai

We investigate the out-of-plane shape morphing capability of single-material elastic sheets with architected cut patterns that result in arrays of tiles connected by flexible hinges. We demonstrate that a non-periodic cut pattern can cause…