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Optimizing shapes and topology of physical devices is crucial for both scientific and technological advancements, given its wide-ranging implications across numerous industries and research areas. Innovations in shape and topology…

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Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method, which allows for the efficient computation of gradients, has…

Shape optimization is of great significance in structural engineering, as an efficient geometry leads to better performance of structures. However, the application of gradient-based shape optimization for structural and architectural design…

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A gradient-based method for shape optimization problems constrained by the acoustic wave equation is presented. The method makes use of high-order accurate finite differences with summation-by-parts properties on multiblock curvilinear…

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We present a method for efficient differentiable simulation of articulated bodies. This enables integration of articulated body dynamics into deep learning frameworks, and gradient-based optimization of neural networks that operate on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Yi-Ling Qiao , Junbang Liang , Vladlen Koltun , Ming C. Lin

We propose a general framework for differentiating shapes represented in binary images with respect to their parameters. This framework functions as an automatic differentiation tool for shape parameters, generating both binary density maps…

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Fast, gradient-based structural optimization has long been limited to a highly restricted subset of problems -- namely, density-based compliance minimization -- for which gradients can be analytically derived. For other objective functions,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Keith J. Lee , Yijiang Huang , Caitlin T. Mueller

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

The inverse design of nonlocal metasurfaces requires the precise optimization of lattice geometry to engineer spatial dispersion and high-Q resonances. However, gradient-based optimization is frequently bottle-necked by the evaluation of…

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In the past few years, following the differentiable programming paradigm, there has been a growing interest in computing the gradient information of physical processes (e.g., physical simulation, image rendering). However, such processes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Quentin Le Lidec , Louis Montaut , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Justin Carpentier

Auto-Regressive (AR) models have achieved impressive results in 2D image generation by modeling joint distributions in the grid space. While this approach has been extended to the 3D domain for powerful shape generation, it still has two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Simian Luo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Yinda Zhang , Ying Tai , Zhenyu Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Xiangyang Xue

In this paper we develop automatic shape differentiation techniques for unfitted discretisations and link these to recent advances in shape calculus for unfitted methods. We extend existing analytic shape calculus results to the case where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Zachary J. Wegert , Jordi Manyer , Connor Mallon , Santiago Badia , Vivien J. Challis

Optimization of beamlines and lattices is a common problem in accelerator physics, which is usually solved with semi-analytical methods and numerical optimization routines. However, these are usually of the gradient-free or…

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A novel and highly efficient computational framework for reconstructing binary-type images suitable for models of various complexity seen in diverse biomedical applications is developed and validated. Efficiency in computational speed and…

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The successes of deep learning, variational inference, and many other fields have been aided by specialized implementations of reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) to compute gradients of mega-dimensional objectives. The AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Joshua Aduol , Alex Beatson , Ryan P. Adams

We introduce an efficient open-source python package for the inverse design of three-dimensional photonic nanostructures using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. Leveraging a flexible reverse-mode automatic differentiation…

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) improves model generalization but doubles the computational cost of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) by requiring twice the gradient calculations per optimization step. To mitigate this, we propose…

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Gradient-based optimization of engineering designs is limited by non-differentiable components in the typical computer-aided engineering (CAE) workflow, which calculates performance metrics from design parameters. While gradient-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Andrin Rehmann , Nolan Black , Josiah Bjorgaard , Alessandro Angioi , Andrei Paleyes , Niklas Heim , Dion Häfner , Alexander Lavin

Designs generated by density-based topology optimization (TO) exhibit jagged and/or smeared boundaries, which forms an obstacle to their integration with existing CAD tools. Addressing this problem by smoothing or manual design adjustments…

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3D volumetric reconstruction from incomplete or noisy measurements is a fundamental problem in medical imaging and computational tomography. Deep image prior (DIP)-based methods have recently shown strong capability for solving inverse…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haijie Yuan , Chaoyan Huang , Srijita Bandopadhyay , Liyue Shen , Saiprasad Ravishankar
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