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Learning physical dynamics from data is a fundamental challenge in machine learning and scientific modeling. Real-world observational data are inherently incomplete and irregularly sampled, posing significant challenges for existing…

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Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong generative capabilities across scientific domains, but often produce outputs that violate physical laws. We propose a new perspective by framing physics-informed generation as a sparse reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mingze Yuan , Pengfei Jin , Na Li , Quanzheng Li

Recently, the advent of generative AI technologies has made transformational impacts on our daily lives, yet its application in scientific applications remains in its early stages. Data scarcity is a major, well-known barrier in data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junhuan Yang , Yuzhou Zhang , Yi Sheng , Youzuo Lin , Lei Yang

Human pose, action, and motion generation are critical for applications in digital humans, character animation, and humanoid robotics. However, many existing methods struggle to produce physically plausible movements that are consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Zixi Kang , Xinghan Wang , Yadong Mu

AI is increasingly used to accelerate engineering design by improving decision-making and shortening iteration cycles. Application to marine propeller design, however, remains challenging due to scarce training data and the lack of widely…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Leah Chen , Keni Chih-Hua Wu , Boon Tat Chia , Xiuqing Xing , Jian Cheng Wong

We present a novel approach for generating motion primitives for kinodynamic motion planning using diffusion models. The motions generated by our approach are adapted to each problem instance by utilizing problem-specific parameters,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julius Franke , Akmaral Moldagalieva , Pia Hanfeld , Wolfgang Hönig

Data-driven machine learning models often require extensive datasets, which can be costly or inaccessible, and their predictions may fail to comply with established physical laws. Current approaches for incorporating physical priors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Matilde Valente , Tiago C. Dias , Vasco Guerra , Rodrigo Ventura

4D content generation focuses on creating dynamic 3D objects that change over time. Existing methods primarily rely on pre-trained video diffusion models, utilizing sampling processes or reference videos. However, these approaches face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jiajing Lin , Zhenzhong Wang , Yongjie Hou , Yuzhou Tang , Min Jiang

Recent literature has effectively leveraged diffusion models trained on continuous variables as priors for solving inverse problems. Notably, discrete diffusion models with discrete latent codes have shown strong performance, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Naoki Murata , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Bac Nguyen , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

Data-based discovery of effective, coarse-grained (CG) models of high-dimensional dynamical systems presents a unique challenge in computational physics and particularly in the context of multiscale problems. The present paper offers a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Accurate modeling of robot dynamics is essential for model-based control, yet remains challenging under distributional shifts and real-time constraints. In this work, we formulate system identification as an in-context meta-learning problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Angelo Moroncelli , Matteo Rufolo , Gunes Cagin Aydin , Asad Ali Shahid , Loris Roveda

In this work, we introduce a novel approach for creating controllable dynamics in 3D-generated Gaussians using casually captured reference videos. Our method transfers the motion of objects from reference videos to a variety of generated 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhoujie Fu , Jiacheng Wei , Wenhao Shen , Chaoyue Song , Xiaofeng Yang , Fayao Liu , Xulei Yang , Guosheng Lin

For a considerable time, researchers have focused on developing a method that establishes a deep connection between the generative diffusion model and mathematical physics. Despite previous efforts, progress has been limited to the pursuit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Weiyang Jin , Yongpei Zhu , Yuxi Peng

Autonomous driving systems demand trajectory planners that not only model the inherent uncertainty of future motions but also respect complex temporal dependencies and underlying physical laws. While diffusion-based generative models excel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hang Zhou , Qiang Zhang , Peiran Liu , Yihao Qin , Zhaoxu Yan , Yiding Ji

Physics-constrained generative modeling aims to produce high-dimensional samples that are both physically consistent and distributionally accurate, a task that remains challenging due to often conflicting optimization objectives. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Giacomo Baldan , Qiang Liu , Alberto Guardone , Nils Thuerey

Learning a categorical distribution comes with its own set of challenges. A successful approach taken by state-of-the-art works is to cast the problem in a continuous domain to take advantage of the impressive performance of the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Florence Regol , Mark Coates

Nature evolves creatures with a high complexity of morphological and behavioral intelligence, meanwhile computational methods lag in approaching that diversity and efficacy. Co-optimization of artificial creatures' morphology and control in…

Many data-driven modules in smart grid rely on access to high-quality power flow data; however, real-world data are often limited due to privacy and operational constraints. This paper presents a physics-informed generative framework based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Junfei Wang , Darshana Upadhyay , Marzia Zaman , Pirathayini Srikantha

The principled design and discovery of biologically- and physically-informed models of neuronal dynamics has been advancing since the mid-twentieth century. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated this progress.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-24 Mahta Ramezanian Panahi , Germán Abrevaya , Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet , Vikram Voleti , Irina Rish , Guillaume Dumas