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A key problem in computational material science deals with understanding the effect of material distribution (i.e., microstructure) on material performance. The challenge is to synthesize microstructures, given a finite number of…

Denoising diffusion models are a novel class of generative algorithms that achieve state-of-the-art performance across a range of domains, including image generation and text-to-image tasks. Building on this success, diffusion models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Nic Fishman , Leo Klarner , Valentin De Bortoli , Emile Mathieu , Michael Hutchinson

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) has significantly enhanced the systemic analysis of the relationship between microstructure and material properties, paving the way for the development of high-performance materials.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-14 Kang-Hyun Lee , Gun Jin Yun

The inverse design of microstructures plays a pivotal role in optimizing metamaterials with specific, targeted physical properties. While traditional forward design methods are constrained by their inability to explore the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tianyang Xue , Haochen Li , Longdu Liu , Paul Henderson , Pengbin Tang , Lin Lu , Jikai Liu , Haisen Zhao , Hao Peng , Bernd Bickel

Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) has the potential to build bridges across spatial and temporal resolutions of remote sensing images. However, existing RefSR methods are limited by the faithfulness of content reconstruction and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Runmin Dong , Shuai Yuan , Bin Luo , Mengxuan Chen , Jinxiao Zhang , Lixian Zhang , Weijia Li , Juepeng Zheng , Haohuan Fu

Determining whether a candidate crystalline material is thermodynamically stable depends on identifying its true ground-state structure, a central challenge in computational materials science. We introduce CrystalGRW, a diffusion-based…

Diffusion-based generative models have reformed generative AI, and also enabled new capabilities in the science domain, e.g., fast generation of 3D structures of molecules. In such tasks, there is often a symmetry in the system, identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yixian Xu , Yusong Wang , Shengjie Luo , Kaiyuan Gao , Tianyu He , Di He , Chang Liu

Generating the periodic structure of stable materials is a long-standing challenge for the material design community. This task is difficult because stable materials only exist in a low-dimensional subspace of all possible periodic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tian Xie , Xiang Fu , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Crystalline materials often exhibit a high level of symmetry. However, most generative models do not account for symmetry, but rather model each atom without any constraints on its position or element. We propose a generative model, Wyckoff…

In this study, we develop a conditional diffusion model that proposes the optimal process parameters and predicts the microstructure for the desired mechanical properties. In materials development, it is costly to try many samples with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Arisa Ikeda , Ryo Higuchi , Tomohiro Yokozeki , Katsuhiro Endo , Yuta Kojima , Misato Suzuki , Mayu Muramatsu

The scope of this paper is generative modeling through diffusion processes. An approach falling within this paradigm is the work of Song et al. (2021), which relies on a time-reversal argument to construct a diffusion process targeting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Stefano Peluchetti

Traditional molecule generation methods often rely on sequence- or graph-based representations, which can limit their expressive power or require complex permutation-equivariant architectures. This paper introduces a novel paradigm for…

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Diffusion has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling, achieving remarkable success in applications such as image and audio synthesis. Enlightened by this progress, we propose a novel diffusion-based approach for symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zachary Bastiani , Robert M. Kirby , Jacob Hochhalter , Shandian Zhe

Microstructure reconstruction, a major component of inverse computational materials engineering, is currently advancing at an unprecedented rate. While various training-based and training-free approaches are developed, the majority of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-28 Christian Düreth , Paul Seibert , Dennis Rücker , Stephanie Handford , Markus Kästner , Maik Gude

Generating 3D scenes is a challenging open problem, which requires synthesizing plausible content that is fully consistent in 3D space. While recent methods such as neural radiance fields excel at view synthesis and 3D reconstruction, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Paul Henderson

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art synthesis quality on both visual and audio tasks, and recent works further adapt them to textual data by diffusing on the embedding space. In this paper, we conduct systematic studies of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhujin Gao , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Yongxin Zhu , Fang Zhang , Jiang Bian , Linli Xu

Molecular structure elucidation from spectra is a fundamental challenge in molecular science. Conventional approaches rely heavily on expert interpretation and lack scalability, while retrieval-based machine learning approaches remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Liang Wang , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Zhenyi Zhong , Zhiyuan Liu , Pengju Wang , Deli Zhao , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang , Yang Zhang

This study presents a generative optimization framework that builds on a fine-tuned diffusion model and reward-directed sampling to generate high-performance engineering designs. The framework adopts a parametric representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hadi Keramati , Patrick Kirchen , Mohammed Hannan , Rajeev K. Jaiman

Procedural material graphs are a compact, parameteric, and resolution-independent representation that are a popular choice for material authoring. However, designing procedural materials requires significant expertise and publicly…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Paul Guerrero , Miloš Hašan , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Radomír Měch , Tamy Boubekeur , Niloy J. Mitra